The mutual fund giant has officially launched its robo. Fidelity Go gives retail investors access to an automated platform that requires...

FinTech Group AG announced Tuesday that it would create digital banking services in Europe together with Rocket Internet SE.  The...

Chatbot startups Digit and Cloe are working to help people save, and recommend how to spend, with easy-to-use chatbots.  Though bots...

Personal finance chatbot maker Kasisto will soon be able to trade stock and help users track their portfolio.  MyKAI, their current...

Preferred stock made up 45 percent of all shares that changed hands on Nasdaq's trading venue for private companies' stock in H1 2016....

PesaPal, a Nairobi-based aggregator for online and mobile payments, is set to launch its own POS to rival similar products from PayPal,...

The cooperation agreement has regulatory approval from Britain's FCA and the Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC), and will enable...

With plenty of experienced founders who bring a wealth of domain expertise, product and technical know-how and a market that represents...

Buying burgers and boarding passes via a bot are one thing. Paying your utilities or credit card bill is another. Tochka Bank in...

FinTech startup Smart Pension has received an undisclosed sum of investment from European asset manager Legal & General Investment...

Subprime online lender Elevate has increased its credit facility size to $545m, led by Victory Park Capital Elevate claims to have...

London based small business banking service raised $2m of Series Seed financing from Local Globe and Passion capital. Tide claims to be...

Betaworks has received its first class of applicants for its accelerator called Botcamp.  The application data reveals that 15% of...

Could the Glass-Steagall Act, the 1933 legislation that forced the separation of investment banking from commercial banking, be coming...

N26 (formerly Number26) is partnering with fellow German fintech startup vaamo to offer a robo investment product to its customers....

Tel Aviv-based gift voucher startup Zeek has raised $9.5 million in Series B funding led by Scale-Up Venture Capital, with participation...

Prosper is setting up a private fund to purchase consumer loans arranged through its online platform.  The fund won't use leverage...

Zenefits has paid its first settlement with a state regulator, the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance. According to state...

Visa and Paypal have announced a strategic partnership that will allow consumers to easily move funds between the two providers,...

Visa has announced that it plans to open a 62,000-square-foot facility in the heart of Silicon Valley, housing employees focused on...

Investing in fintech? There's now an index for that. Keefe, Bruyette, & Woodshas struck a deal with Nasdaq to debut KBW Financial...

Portfolio company Embroker has just released it's Beta version 2.0. This new release places Embroker closer to it's bigger vision of...

Exciting (and yet not so surprising news) from Amazon, who recently announced it will be stepping into the student-loan marketplace...

Greg Schvey, CEO of portfolio company Axoni, participated in a blockchain technology discussion held on Capital Hill. The event was...

Great article highlighting portfolio company, American Prison Data Systems (APDS), as the leader in providing the necessary educational...

One key reason Unilever purchased Dollar Shave Club was its ability to simplify a product that had become needlessly complex, which is a...

Minneapolis-based insurance marketplace Gravie has raised a $1m Series Seed from Securian Financial Group.  Securian will also begin...

Unilever's acquisition of Dollar Shave Club is one of the biggest e-commerce deals in recent years.  The acquisition comes five...

Dollar Shave Club, a pioneer in online direct-to-consumer subscription businesses, will be acquired by Unilever for $1 billion.  The...

Illinois-based customer feedback platform ReviewTrackers has secured a $4m Series A, led by American Family Ventures.  Square 1Bank,...

PitchBook rehashes the venture financing rounds Dollar Shave Club has underwent on its path to a unicorn exit and sheds light on...

Atom Bank and Tandem in the U.K. both hold a banking license but it looks like Number26 might be paving the way in the Eurozone. Number26...

Square, the mobile payments company run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has incorporated a business called Squareup Europe Ltd in Britain,...

Omise, a Bangkok-based payment enabler much like Stripe, has raised a $17.5 million Series B round from Japan-based SBI Investment to...

Fascinating UK bank switching data shows that tens of thousands of people left Santander at the end of last year due to a fee hike of £3...

A controversial solution to a massive theft of Ether was implemented on Wednesday. If it works, it will see tens of millions of dollars...

The first wave of cost cutting at banks was straight-forward: layoffs, bonus reductions, curbing employee travel, renegotiating vendor...

In July 2009, Josh Reich emailed his college buddy Shamir Karkal with a very direct subject line—“Let’s start a retail bank”. 7 years...

San Francisco based personal finance chatbot startup Trim has raised a $2.2m Series Seed, led by Eniac Ventures with participation from...

Those focused on the insuretech space have heard the term "episodic insurance", which simply means - an insurance product for a specific...

The fintech focused venture arm of Santander Bank, Santander InnoVentures, will be putting another $100m into the fund.  This places...

The Intergeneration Commission has released their latest report and the results aren't good for millennials---they are likely to be the...

Portfolio company, Quovo, recently partnered with Advisor Software in order to provide wealth managers with seamless access to aggregated...

Apple Pay went live in France on Tuesday. The country joins UK and Switzerland as the third European country to offer Apple Pay, and the...

Goldman Sachs revealed on Tuesday's earnings call that they have surveyed thousands of consumers on what they look for in an online...

San Francisco based online retirement planning software, Guideline, secured $7m in Series A financing led by Propel Venture Partners. The...

London-based peer to peer invoice financing startup MarketInvoice has raised a £7.2 million Series B, led by MCI Capital with...

If you are searching for video games midday on the Internet in Beijing be careful, you may have just lowered your credit score. The...

July 14 was a very big day for Mastercard.  The company held an event to unveil the enhanced version of its Masterpass global...

New York-based student loan financing platform CommonBond has raised a $30M Series C and $300M in debt financing.  The equity...

Russian banking and insurance company Sberbank is equipping branches with with special modules to attract Pokemon.  The modules will...

Interesting opinion on how marketplace lenders may be able to overcome the recent market hurdles - start generating balance sheet loans...

Portfolio company Quovo, a data science company for the wealth management industry, has announced a partnership with digital wealth...

Pulling a pitch deck together is mostly common sense story telling. That said it is always very helpful to have a crib sheet to hand, and...

Pokemon Go may be emblematic of new risks and hazards to consumers in the digital age.  In addition to your location data, Pokemon...

Denver-based cyber risk analytics startup CyberGRX Inc. raised a $9 million Series A from Alphabet Inc.’s GV, the venture capital...

Hamburg-based real estate crowdfunding platform Exporo has raised an €8.2M Series A from e.ventures, Holtzbrinck Ventures, Sunstone and...

Paris-based TagPay consumer banking startup TagPay has secured a $1M Series Seed from Société Générale at an $11.5M pre-money valuation.

Very proud to see portfolio company, Mighty, mentioned in CBInsights Legal Tech Market Map, among 50 other growing startups disrupting...

As Pokemon Go has exploded in popularity, so have related accidents as Charizard-chasers interact with real-world hazards.  The...

Pokemon Go. If you haven't heard of it, go download it. This new game is by far the most widely used augmented reality (AR) based app...

From the creator of Google's speech recognition software, comes a new fully-integrated, blockchain-based banking operating system called...

Blockchain technology company, SolidX, recently filed a registration statement with the US securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to...

UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) -driven software company, FiveAI, secured $2.7 m in Series Seed funding led by Amadeus Capital...

The recent phenomenon of Pokemon Go has led much of the tech community to ponder how augmented reality applications can be used for...

India recently passed the U.S., as it became the second-largest smartphone market in the world after China. The Country has made amazing...

UK based compliance surveillance software, Behavox, secured an undisclosed amount of Series A funding led by Hoxton Ventures and Promus...

Great article about the rise of fintech giant SoFi. Some important takeaways from the article - CEO Mike Cagney has no intention to crush...

Slice Labs has partnered with Munich Re as it prepares to roll out its on-demand insurance platform.  Munich Re will serve as the...

On July 9th, the Bitcoin community went through it's second halving - as block number 420,000 was sealed, the cost to mine a bitcoin was...

San Francisco-based loan payment automation platform EarnUp has raised a $3M Series Seed, with participation from Blumberg Capital, Kapor...

CA-based blockchain identity startup Netki has raised a $3.5M Series Seed, led by O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) with participation...

The Financial Stability Oversight Council warned in a recent report that regulators need to be attentive to signs of erosion in lending...

In Q2 2016, companies valued at $1bn or more took in $8.78bn in venture capital, the highest amount on record and 40% of all venture...

This week, a van sporting a billboard reading, "Dear start-ups, keep calm and move to Berlin," was spotted in the city! As London fintech...

Portfolio company, Embroker, is expanding its presence from San Francisco to Chicago. The company is opening its new office this coming...

Melbourne-based cross border payments startup Airwallex has announced a $3M Series Seed led by Gobi Partners, with participation from...

The Euro Cup 2016 isn't just about  amazing goals, assists and penalty kicks. Like many other sports, soccer has a very strong...

APDS and First Book, a non-profit providing affordable books to educators serving low-income families, have teamed up to donate 50...

Post Brexit has caused investors to question London's ability to maintain it's stance as one of the leading global fintech hubs. The...

Only a day before the Brexit vote, Gartner issued a forecast for 1.7% growth in UK tech spending this year, from last year’s total of...

Gavin Jackson, AWS UK, Ireland and Europe MD kicked off the 2016 AWS Summit in London by saying to the 5,000 strong audience that the...

The world's largest retailer is hoping its mobile payments app will bring convenience and faster checkout times for shoppers, as well as...

The focus on technology talent is unabated at large financial firms. Citadel has hired Kevin Turner, the COO at Microsoft, to become CEO...

One concern is that pre-referendum a UK challenger bank could access an (EU) market of ~500m people. Following the referendum, might be...

Blackmoon launches in the US to match investors with balance-sheet lenders. The Russian marketplace lending as a service platform is...

Howard Lindson steps aside as CEO as his VC firm (Social Leverage) injects another $2M and appoints EVEN co-founder Ian Rosen to lead the...

As questions arise regarding London's ability to remain Europe's fintech center, Germany feels it can step into the ring and provide...

"The Floor", the Israeli version of London's Level39, has built strong partnerships with global banks like HSBS, RBS, Banco Santander,...

A recent survey of 163 financial advisors and RIAs carried out by portfolio company, Artivest, shows that the perceived lack of access to...

England based artificial intelligence cyber security company has raised $64m of Series C funding led by KKR with participation from...

New York-based online estate and legacy planning service Everplans has raised a $6.4 million Series A, led by Mousse Partners with...

Unfortunately, the summer continues to bring more negatives headlines for the embattled online lender. LendingClub’s Broad Based Consumer...

Wirecard, the second-largest payments processor in Europe, is buying Citigroup's institutional prepaid cards division for an undisclosed...

According to portfolio company, Openfolio, the drop in the Investor Average for the month of June predated the Brexit selloff. This means...

New York City based lending analytics platform dv01 raised a $7.5M Series Seed, with participation from Quantum Strategic Partners Ltd.,...

San Francisco-based 401(k)-focused startup ForUsAll raised a $9.5M Series A, led by Foundation Capital.

New York-based small business financing platform Bizfi has raised $20M in growth capital from Metropolitan Equity Partners.  

San Francisco-based payments and analytics startup Index raised a $19M Series B  led by General Catalyst Partners.  The...

The New York Times recently spoke to several high-ranking executives at major financial institutions that collectively employ tens of...

As US drone related regulations have just started to pick up, companies like Amazon who have built huge departments dependent on the...

Palo Alto based auto startup, Zoox, secured $200m in venture financing by investors Lux Capital and DFJ. Zoox is said to be building the...

Over the past couple of years following the financial crisis, private equity firms steered clear from any megadeals in the tech space as...

For all their power, computers still find it difficult to tell the difference between a cascade of manipulative buy and sell orders, and...

Alphabet (Google) is boosting its finance chops by appointing Roger Ferguson, the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and CEO of...

Investors in the company’s Series C round, where it raised $500 million at a previous $4.5 billion valuation, will have their ownership...

The first known death caused by a self-driving car was disclosed by Tesla this week, a development that is sure to cause consumers and...

The EU’s existing financial regulation relationships with countries such as Norway, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Switzerland paint a...

Following recent controversies, Zenefits built internal software to automatically verify the licensing status for brokers and block...

With new FAA drone regulations coming out this week, insurers are moving fast to replace a person on a ladder with an eye in the sky....

Los Angeles-based agriculture finance startup ProducePay has raised a $2.5M Series Seed from Menlo Ventures, Arena Ventures, CoVenture,...