A recent report by Willis Towers Watson looks at Life insurers’ overarching strategic goals for using big data and predictive analytics:...

In this fantastic post Coinbase outlines how it builds secure infrastructure in The Cloud. They share some of what they have learned,...

Cybersecurity spend in 2015 was $75b, and the market is estimated to be worth $170b by 2020. This makes cybersecurity startups hot...

The Paris based P2P SMB lender will use the amount to expand into additional European markets, including Spain and Italy in the coming...

The Mumbai-based digital payments company raised the amount from investors including IDFC Spice Fund and Micromax Informatics, with...

The New York-based startup uses AI to provide an automated and enhanced banking experience for retail customers. 

Kasisto's platform...

While the market for remittances is big, so is the field of companies that are working in it. This funding brings the total raised to...

While individuals and entrepreneurs have found that GoFundMe, Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns have helped launch small businesses,...

The heist this February is looking more and more like a modern day version of the Michael Caine bank robbery "The Italian Job" . BAE...

Max Levchin, co-founder and CEO of Affirm, recognizes that his users today will not be daily visitors to Affirm’s website. To help fix...

The latest turn of events in the public battle between the FBI and Apple took another turn over the weekend, with the FBI dropping its...

The European Commission's GDPR, which was adopted earlier in April and will start being enforced in 2018, is aimed at improving data...

Matt Miller, CEO of Embroker (a FinTech Collective portfolio company), explains in this thoughtful piece how the axiom of having to...

The cyber thieves who pulled off one of the biggest robberies in history, when they raided the Bangladesh central bank in February, are...

As a recent report from McKinsey points out, turning 30 just got a lot scarier! A looming collapse in investment returns means that 30yr...

In response to Bill Gurley's essay on "dirty termsheets" J. Lemkin argues that if you believe the company you work for can be worth...

French startup Linxo has won over almost 1 million customers and gained access to their bank accounts. The company’s app aggregates...

Orange, which has 28m mobile clients in France will now be able to launch Orange Bank, a fully fledged mobile banking service, in France...

The origins of GS Bank date back to the heyday of the financial crisis. Today Goldman Sachs’s sudden fondness of small accounts is mainly...

Alex Rampell provides an interesting framework (payments as a "Stack") to help identify the problems in payments and the opportunities....

Ant Financial, the Chinese payments, wealth management, and insurance company raised a $4.5b Series B on a rumored $60b valuation. The...

Trov, the Danvile, CA based on-demand insurance startup has raised a $25.5m Series C. The company is pivoting from being a provider of a...

Four months after completing a $40m Series C, BlueVine, the Palo Alto based SMB lender accepted a strategic investment from Citi...

Two European clones of Square have merged. SumUp (Backed by Groupon and BBVA) and Payleven (Backed by Rocket Internet) have...

A new study by financial wellness company called Payoff, revealed that the financial stress that many Americans feel has strong...

BlackRock is just the latest large fund house to offer investors exposure to P2P loans. It joins a number of fund managers investing in...

In his most recent 5,700-word essay, Bill Gurley highlights why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous…for all involved.

San Francisco-based (but Tel Aviv-founded) fraud detection provider raised $32m in Series C.

The round was led by Scale Venture Partners,...

Benchmark's, Bill Gurley, explains in depth why he believes we are in a tech bubble and how this will effect the venture/tech industry....

Mexico-based online lender raised $10m Series A and $25m in debt financing, which could climb to $100m depending on portfolio requirements.

Several weeks ago, we covered the debate around Brexit. In the run-up to the pivotal referendum, a large number of startup founders have...

Distributed ledger startup Digital Asset acquired Zurich-basedElevence Digital Finance, a startup that has developed a modelling language...

In a paper published this week, the organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos have reiterated a need to act in a coordinated...

Business Insider provides a great breakdown and plenty of insider gossip on how Dan Wagner built and destroyed UK payment startup, Powa.

There is concern that the rapidly growing area of online consumer credit is hitting a rough patch. The CEOs of three large providers of...

Wunder explains how fintech is changing the commercial solar market. Wunder believes that, "The commercial market segment is not...

In a survey of 16,000 customers, Capgemini found that they are increasingly becoming users of so-called "novel" financial services and...

With marketplace lending an increasingly competitive space, new entrants are finding niches where they can apply marketplace models...

Cybersecurity stocks are hot and Bessemer (BVP) is taking notice. The VC fund created the BVP Cyber Index, which lists 29 public...

Calypso Technology, a provider of treasury and capital markets (TCM) software, is to be acquired by European private equity fund...

The research report from Swift and Accenture analyses the opportunities and challenges of distributed ledger technology in financial...

Datausa.io is one of my new favorite websites and a great tool for VCs doing market research. The tool was created by MIT and...

Acorns the Newport Beach wealth management startup has raised a $30m Series D, led by Paypal and Rakuten.

San Francisco based Fraud prevention company, Forter, secured $32m in Series C funding led by Scale Venture Partners. The investment is...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a recent report that highlights the upcoming regulations that the bureau intends...

I have just returned to NYC from San Francisco, where I attended the LendIt USA 2016 Conference. Having been lucky enough to see the...

You know that regulators are getting with the program when the US Federal Reserve Governor carries out an entire speech about the...

The amount was raised by Viva Republica,  Toss' South Korea-based parent company. Toss is a P2P money transfer platform

The amount...

Habito, a London-based digital mortgage broker, raised the amount to launch its service in the UK.

The round was led by Mosaic Ventures...

Cloud9, a cloud-based voice trading communiciation provider for institutions announced that it raised an undisclosed investment from J.P....

Accenture released its latest report on fintech, noting that "More than $50b has been invested in almost 2,500 companies since 2010..."

Vestmark, the Wakefield, MASaaS provider of wealth management solutions for financial advisors and institutions, closed a $30m investment...

The Oakland based lending startup raised a $9m Series A, led by Valar Ventures. Even helps hourly workers smooth their pay periods so...

Regions Bank is using Avant’s tech platform to provide a digital experience for the bank's customers that want a consumer loan. Customers...

The founder (Mehul Patel) is not building a fintech business, but still provides some very helpful reminders: Start fundraising early,...

In case you didn't make it to LendIt this week here are all the presentations that you missed, including MoneyLion's product demo.

BB profiles Equinix, the $22.2 billion company that’s quietly grown into the world’s largest owner of interconnected data centers for...

Alternative lenders Everest (SME) and CircleBack (Consumer) both share an investor indicted last week on racketeering charges. His name...

Prosper President Ron Suber is unhappy that when Citigroup got a cold reception from investors for a batch of securitized personal loans,...

ChangeCoin was best known for letting people tip each other with bitcoin. However Airbnb have acqui-hired the team behind it to explore...

The acquisiton will sit in ICAPs Post Trade Risk and Information business and will help their hedge fund clients deal with the rapidly...

As foreign companies face obstacles in entering Iran, local tech startups also face challenges from hardline elements within the...

Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Italy's state financing agency, and Sace, Italy's export credit agency, have issued €4b of credit lines and...

Global investors are preparing for Cuba to return to the financial markets, as it buries the hatchet with the US and opens its doors. A...

Although many banking restrictions against Iran were lifted in January as part of the nuclear agreement reached last year, UK banks...

Paymentwall, a San Francisco-based payments provider, has moved to expand its business into Iran, even as major banks remain reluctant to...

As borders open and Cuba gets exposed to the US and global markets, the International Money Transfer & Payments Industry (IMTC) has...

Who said VCs aren't investing? Silicon Valley lending startup, Affirm, secured $100m in Series D financing led by Founders Fund. With a...

Openfolio, a Fintech Collective portfolio company, explains how, despite March being a good month for investors, not everyone did well.

The Minnesota City-based individual health insurance marketplace is led by industry veterans Bob Sheehy (former CEO of UnitedHealthcare),...

Jason Calacanis blogs about Musks staggering success in selling 276,000 cars 21 months before they are ready to be shipped.

Harvard Business Review highlights why venture capital might actually be detrimental to your business and highlights dilution, the...

As Fred Wilson points out in his blog post from 2011 - why not take this approach with every startup? 1) It isn't always possible to find...

Even the chipmakers' dig blockchain! Intel recently published their proprietary code behind the Sawtooth Lake Platform, Intel's...

The San Mateo based, Second Measure, $2m in seed funding from Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and...

Orchardconnects marketplace lending platforms to institutional investors. Orchard wants to continue to help develop the online lending...

Some good news following valuation drops - Amazon is thinking of placing some bets on fintech startups. After the growing success of...

RobinHood, the no-fee stock trading app, is famous for attracting 1m people to their waiting list before they launched. In this podcast,...

The Berlin-based, app-only bank revealed in an interview that it has passed 160 thousand customers, with 80% of its customer growth...

The Panama Papers have been the main focus of this week's headlines, with Prime Ministers, pro athletes and bank robbers all using...

The Munich-based digital investment manager raised the amount from existing investors Holtzbrink Ventures, as well as Monk's Hill...

The investment in the Hamburg-based consumer loans marketplace was led by HarbourVest, with participation from Acton Capital and Highland...

The Goldman Sachs-backed consumer finance startup, which allows consumers to compare loans, credit cards, insurance and other financial...

The Opentable competitor, Reserve, has acquired the restaurant payment app, Dash. Terms of the deal were not announced. This acquisition...

Maya Capital, put together a list of the top 20 people in marketplace lending. It's an interesting group of executives, entrepreneurs,...

With investors such as Fidelity writing down the value of their holdings in Cloudera and Dropbox, the chair of the SEC has voiced concern...

Last week, a report by Citi stated that US and European banks were set to shed 1.7m jobs as a result of increasing automation of its...

The new rule by the Department of Labor with regards to investment advice, is rather confusing. The wording of the rule leaves open...

As part of its fintech bonanza, the NY Times Dealbook has put together a timeline of 'The Evolution of Fintech', which highlights key...

This week Copenhagen held the first European Money2020 conference, showcasing the global fintech industry. The talk on the conference...

A great long form NY Times article on Marty Chavez, who was promoted just over two years ago to oversee Goldman’s 9,000 or so computer...

Nick Shalek's (Ribbit Capital) response to Hedge Fund capital is “there’s the short-term cycle and then there is the long-term shift...

As the WSJ highlighted today, some of the world's biggest banks, along with post-trade utility provider the Depository Trust &...

We have been following the growing number of ex-wall street executives who have become fintech investors and advisors over the past year....

Well done Axoni! Very exciting news for Tradeblock's subsidiary, Axoni, who successfully completed a test for the replication of a credit...

The NY Times does a great job of digging into Ethereum, a bitcoin alternative that is garnering a lot of attention from WallStreet. 

Robos are increasingly providing data aggregation to their customers. Quovo is well positioned to help, the company is already providing...

In a 30 minute podcast, Lending Club's CEO, Renaud Laplanche, sat down with Re/code's Kara Swisher to discuss marketplace lenders,...

How do you launch a business? Stripe wants to be the answer. The $5b company is looking to move beyond just being a payment processor for...

Guidewire Software, a software provider for the insurance industry has acquired EagleEye Analytics. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed....

MIT has created a fund to cover Bitcoin Core developers' salary, travel budget and work costs. The three leading developers of the...

The San Francisco-based financial services platform will use the proceeds to expand services, including small-scale lending, in...

The New York-based company provides insurance services for workers in the so-called on-demand economy. 

The investors were Horizon...

Without the dedicated accounting departments of their larger counterparts, and seeking to navigate a frequently complex tax code, its no...

In reporting related to FY 2015 tax returns, the IRS reported collecting $3.3t in gross taxes, up from $3.06t in FY 2014. 

In seeking to stimulate the slowing economy, and promote small business growth, the latest annual UK budget announced an increase in the...

For entrepreneurs (and would-be entrepreneurs), thinking about and filing taxes can be a highly complicated process. Whilst many...

Forbes explains the origins of how Reonomy was created with Charlie's vision and Rich's execution. Good example of how founders meet and...

A new report by Citi titled 'Digital Disruption', predicts that US and European banks will shed 1.7m jobs by 2025. The report argues that...

New research from Disrupt Africa found that fintech startups represented 30% of the total capital invested in new African companies. One...

Investing in small and medium-sized businesses has become much more attractive for UK angels thanks to changes to entrepreneurs’ relief...

After studying the UK, the Aussie regulator is set to create a generous tax incentive for start-up investors with a combination of a 20...