Over the past 48 hours the media has been abuzz about litigation finance with the revelation thatPeter Thiel has been fundingHulk Hogan’s...

A host of City titans list among Netwealth’s 28 initial investors, funding the firm’s £6.5M launch. They include Jupiter vice-chairman...

The on demand economy doesn't just matter for workers, it matters for manufacturers. From automobiles to cleaning supplies, manufacturers...

Are concerns over job displacement and challenging working conditions as much a result of poor alternatives as of the emerging gig economy?

With a Pew Report revealing that the majority of Americans aren't aware of the buzz-terms such as "sharing economy" used by investors,...

With on-demand workers falling into a grey area between employees and self-employed, filing taxes can be complex. According to an...

This fascinating report, based on research by Pew, explains who are the knows and know-nots in the evolving on demand economy, and what...

Bitcoin is to digital currency as SMS is to messaging, an essential first step but increasingly anachronistic. Ethereum, on the other...

With specific instances, such as the NYDFS' probe into Lending Club, indicating that regulatory scrutiny of U.S. fintech is increasing,...

In a podcast with Recode, the JPMorgan CEO reiterates why you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

Having already covered how to make a partnership work, we now ask, are current partnerships taking integration far enough?

Ron Shevlin...

As fintech startups begin to come of age and several high-profile celebrity couples (JPM/OnDeck, UBS/SigFig) become the talk of the town,...

With Lending Club under the microscope (and the subject of a subpoena by the NYDFS last week regarding loans issued to New Yorkers), more...

The Noida, Uttar Pradesh, based P2P lender raised the amount from undisclosed angel investors as it seeks to enter into the growing...

The New York based platform, which allows accredited investors to invest in residential real estate rehab loans, raised the amount to...

The London-based equity crowdfunding platform (which became a member of the LSE this year) raised the amount via its own platform at a...

The San Francisco based personal finance bot intends to use the amount to develop the product and deepen its pool of machine learning...

The Hangzhou based P2P lender raised the amount to continue to expand its platform into consumer loans (it had previously focused on auto...

The Dubai based provider of bitcoin payment infrastructure raised the undisclosed amount from Wamda Capital, Digital Currency Group and...

The Bangalore-based personal finance platform raised the amount from an undisclosed investor, and will use it to launch their product...

The Kuala Lumpur-based provider of financial comparison services has raised the amount to move into a new product area: providing digital...

New York based payment security and verification platform raised the amount to continue to develop its product and build out its B2B...

London-based remittance provider raised the amount to expand into new markets including Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand.

New York-based provider of an application that incentivizes positive health behaviour, raised the amount from AXA Strategic Ventures,...

The Tunis-based startup, which digitizes company expenses, raised an undisclosed amount from Bpifrance to formally launch their platform,...

The New Delhi-based provider of software that enables Indians to file their income tax returns raised the amount from Sequoia and Peter...

The Copenhagen based provider of expense-tracking smart credit cards raised the amount from Speedinvest

The report explores the shift in focus from theory to practice, examining 7 real-world applications of blockchain, such as enhancing...

AIG is set to launch what it is calling “Crowdfunding Fidelity,” an insurance product developed to protect investors on equity...

Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest have all embarked on major product initiatives in this area. Twitter backing away from social commerce...

Mt. Gox still seems to be a venue for scams long since it's demise. The amount that people around the world claim they lost when Mt. Gox...

Like a skunk at a garden party, the SEC has been moving in on the fun-loving Wall Street conference circuit in hopes of getting a better...

Nasdaq just launched its blockchain backed solution for financial infrastructure providers - the Nasdaq Financial Framework. The idea is...

San Francisco based financial advisory services company, SigFig, secured $40m in Series C funding, by investors likeSantander...

2016 is turning out to be a promising year for fintech startups, with fundraising to date exceeding last year's by 36%. This comes at a...

Interesting outcome to the case of Tom Hayes and his manipulation of the Libor whilst working at Citigroup. As Hayes is serving his 11...

Interesting legal debate on who has the right to decide when and where drones can fly? In a market that is expected to reach sales of...

It seems all the dominos from Lending Club's internal control lapse haven't quite fallen yet. Bloomberg reports that banks are seeking to...

Described as "top-up funding," London based money transfer service TransferWise has raised $26m led by investment management firm Baillie...

A new industry has had just about enough of hedge funds.....and it's not pension funds. Upset with market-trailing returns and hefty...

Bad news continues to hit the online lending sector. Chicago-based prime and near-prime online lender, Avant, announced this week its...

Worldcover is among an emerging class of profit-seeking startups, who have a chance to make a socially-positive impact on a huge scale.

Following the release of Openfolio 2.0 earlier this week, we're thrilled to say that Apple have chosen to feature them on the front page...

Millennials + fintech = interesting. "One Venmo user told me that a co-worker had invited her to coffee, only to request $3.79 in...

OnMay 16th Title III of the JOBS Act went into effect allowing almost anyone to invest in the equity of a non-public company. The new...

"It's good to be the King". When you're as big as Google, you can ban Adwords leading to payday lenders whilst also investing in a a...

Whilst  startups focused on enhancing the customer experience are plentiful, fewer entrepreneurs have put their minds towards...

Lend Academy founder and Lending Club shareholder on why, despite recent controversy, he intends to remain invested in loans originated...

The San Francisco based provider of an app that helps consumers maintain good credit and avoid excess charges will use the proceeds to...

The Redwood City, CA based provider of digital wealth management solutions will use the proceeds to continue to scale its existing...

The Buenos Aires based platform for Latin American real estate will use the proceeds to improve its position in key markets such as...

The Singapore based provider of Canopy (a wealth data aggregation and visualization product)  will use the amount to further invest...

The Chicago based real estate lending platform will use the proceeds to grow its platform which offers both short term acquisition and...

The San Francisco based robo adviser will be used by UBS' U.S.-based advisers to improve efficiency by reducing the amount of time spent...

Following on from its $70m Series D in February, Oakland based Renew Financial has raised an additional undisclosed amount from Braemar...

The Charleston based cloud accounting service raised the amount to expand their tech and sales teams.

The roundw as led by Atlanta-based...

In a recent report, insurance giant Swiss Re suggests that frontier markets outside of Brazil, Russia, India and China (such as Vietnam,...

Mobile payments shouldn't be confined to mobiles - or at least according to FitBit, who announced the acquisition of Coin earlier this week.

The Bank of England governor has joined the board of the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), which was formed in late 2015, adding weight...

The £1.1bn sale of its global broking business to rival Tullett Prebon will see it offload 1,500 colourful brokers who conduct deals over...

A good blow-by-blow account in the WSJ of how the Lending Club debacle unfolded. 

The number of US brokerage firms registered with the FINRA has been shrinking, with nearly 500 disappearing from the regulator’s books...

Otto, a start-up led by former Google engineers, is betting that automating long-haul trucks rather than passenger vehicles could be more...

Consortium led mess at its best! Launched (late) to great fanfare in 2014. Delayed its roll out in 2015. Based on old tech including QR...

Mr. P’s new investment firm is backed by Comcast -and will seek stakes in more mature financial-services companies.

Is a panda more plentiful than a solid blockchain developer? Apparently, very few developers have the necessary knowledge and experience...

NextCapital's CEO Rob Foregger claims that the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule is basically asking advisors to question if they...

French insurance-tech startup Shift Technology, secured $10m in Series A funding, led by Accel. The company developed a software that...

Our portfolio company Embroker just announced their Series A funding of $12.2 million, led by Canaan Partners. Embroker uses its own...

Thomas Chippas has joined Axoni as COO. Prior to joining Axoni, Thomas was the CEO of Citadel Technology and prior to that was a managing...

R3, is trying to raise $200 million from a consortium of banks. But according to an article by Finextra titled "Blockchain consortium R3...

What makes Ellevest truly interesting is not just that it is focused on empowering woman, it's the way that it plans to make that happen....

Two weeks ago we covered the 'Bangladesh Job', where hackers attempted to steal close to $1b from Bangladesh's Central Bank through...

Artivest, a FinTech Collective portfolio company, has hired Michael Kosoff, a former head of hedge fund strategies at Bank of America...

The Palo Alto-based medical billing company raised the amount to expand its network of hospitals in the U.S. 

Investors in the round...

The New York-based blockchain startup uses the technology to improve supply chains globally. 

Fluent previously raised $850k in...

Vancouver-based robo advisor is Canada's first and (currently) only online portfolio management service.

The round was led by Nicola...

The India-based SME lender raised the amount to continue to expand its origination business. 

The round was led by Creation...

In an effort to give Asian and European FinTech companies access to each others' markets, the UK's FCA and Singapore's MAS announced the...

With $9.4b in expected technology spend this year, of which 40% will be on new technologies and investments, it's no surprise that...

Whilst banks may be racing to ensure their innovations are protected by patents, filing for a patent doesn't always make sense.

This was...

With banks ramping up their innovation divisions and technology spend to ensure they stay ahead of each other, and of disruptive new...

The LOT Network

provides protection from patent trolls. The network works to inoculate patents from patent troll abuse. Members range...

By Wednesday, LendingClub had touched an all-time intraday low of $3.95, for a market cap of $1.5 billion. That is a world away from the...

Despite a visionary founder tackling a stodgy industry ripe for disruption with a steady stream of recurring revenue from the start, this...

M-Pesa was launched in South Africa in 2010 with the hope it could capture a customer base of 10M users in 3yrs. However, 6yrs on the...

Whilst this trend will only grow, research firm Preqin currently estimates that family office money represents c.9% of private equity...

A new study by Pew Research has concluded that the middle class is declining, creating an even bigger gap between the lower and upper...

When Google used the term "do no evil", they may have been talking about the world of payday loans. The search giant released a post...

Manchester based fintech company, AccessPay, secured £1m in debt financing from Barclays Innovative Finance fund. The new agreement...

There is a growing demand from investors to enter the market of privately financed mortgages as a promising asset class. With banks...

Seems that the Treasury got the boos it was waiting for. The latest developments at LendingClub were the catalyst for an "I told you so"...

Drawing on its wide network of investors to create peer benchmarks, Openfolio reveals that 1 in 3 investors lost money in April, with...

The New York-based marketplace lender for alternative, asset-backed loans raised the round after operating in stealth mode for a year.

The...

The London-based remittances company raised the amount from Rakuten's FinTech Fund.

The raise follows Azimo's $20m Series B in June 2015...

The San Francisco-based online-only bank raised the amount at an undisclosed valuation to launch its product, with the ultimate aim of...

The Vancouver-based online bookkeeping service for small businesses and independent contractors raised the amount at an undisclosed...

The India-based mobile wallet and recharge platform raised the amount at an undisclosed valuation to continue to expand the business.

The...

The New York-based commercial real estate management platform was valued at $200m as part of the deal, in a round that was one of the...

From artificially intelligent hedge funds to quantum computing in fraud detection, it's easy to get excited about the future of financial...

Litigation finance goes online in the UK as Tom Hayes, the former UBS Group AG trader serving 11 years in prison for rigging Libor, has...

With technology stalwarts from Elon Musk to Bill Gates warning of the potential threat presented by artificial intelligence, one would be...

Following in the footsteps of the UK and US, François Villeroy de Galhau, governor of the Banque de France, announced that its prudential...

TransferWise have been aggressive marketers from the start launching with the slogan "bye bye banks" and naked people on the tube. They...

The licenses, issued by the NYSDFS, permit entities to transmit, receive, store, maintain custody of and act as an exchange for virtual...

The following Medium post does a terrific job of unpacking why NYC has raced to 2nd place behind Silicon Valley as a startup city. Sandi...

On Monday, Australian Craig Wright claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym used by the original architect of bitcoin. 

By...

China is home to multiple fintech giants, from Ant Financial to Lufax, and yet the Chinese government appears to have mixed views on how...

A terrific read on how the Insurance Agent is going to get disintermediated. It is not without warning though, given the painful buying...

Not all of Alibaba's businesses looked rosy. Its online finance affiliate Ant Financial, now valued at close to $60B and one of founder...

Singapore's government support and the country's rich talent pool of workers with financial experience have allowed fintech to flourish....

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled a proposed rule torestrict the use of arbitration clauses in consumer financial...

The hype of the self-driving car continues! General Motors and Lyft will be testing a fleet of self-driving cars that should be seen on...

Amazon has announced that it will be partnering with Digital Currency Group to provide it's own blockchain as-a-service sandbox for DCG's...

Pymnts.com interesting read on the latest "60 Minutes" fintech focused segment, and what the show forgot to mention regarding the world...

Always exciting to work with talented entrepreneurs and watch them grow! Israel-based payment platform startup Zooz, secured $24m in...

Martin Stead, Nutmeg's current chief revenue officer, is being promoted to CEO whilst Nick Hungerford, who cofounded Nutmeg in 2011 will...

A recent report by Legal & General and the Centre for Economics and Business Research has concluded that the “bank of mum and dad” is...