9/30/2016 8:49:23 PM Battle Over Munis Moves to Senate By FinTech Collective A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would enable municipal bonds to qualify for banks' capital requirements.
9/30/2016 8:48:13 PM Muni borrowing costs jump as money market reforms loom By FinTech Collective Key interest rate for short term municipal bonds have spiked from effectively zero to 70bps over the last few months.
9/30/2016 8:39:09 PM Goldman Sachs Gives a Glimpse Into Its New Lending Plans By Gareth Jones The Wall Street giant feels that unsecured loans are an underserved part of the market where Goldman can carve out a niche between big...
9/30/2016 8:29:53 PM California Suspends ‘Business Relationships’ With Wells Fargo By FinTech Collective California, the nation's largest issuer of municipal bonds, has suspended Wells Fargo as an issuer for a period of twelve months.
9/30/2016 7:53:37 PM Quovo announces advisor dashboard By FinTech Collective New York based FinTech Collective portfolio company has announced the release of their new Advisor Dashboard platform. The new dashboard...
9/30/2016 7:53:30 PM BlackRock to offer infrastructure funds via Artivest By FinTech Collective BlackRock Inc has announced plans to offer infrastructure funds through FinTech Collective portfolio company Artivest, a startup...
9/30/2016 7:53:03 PM Direct Pay Online acquires PayGate By FinTech Collective East Africa based online payments processor Direct Pay has acquired a majority stake in South Africa based online payment processor...
9/30/2016 7:50:50 PM Kyriba Corp secures $23m Series D By FinTech Collective San Diego based SaaS treasury solution company Kyriba Corp has closed a $23m Series D funding round led by bpifrance. Kyriba is the...
9/30/2016 7:36:20 PM German insurance giant Allianz invests in online wealth manager MoneyFarm By Gareth Jones Allianz has taken a minority stake in Italian digital wealth manager MoneyFarm as it seeks to keep track of the fintech sector.
9/29/2016 11:16:35 PM California Governor Signs Bill to Create State-Sponsored Retirement Plan By Gareth Jones California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved a bill creating state-sponsored retirement plans for some 6.8M Californians who don’t have them...
9/29/2016 2:39:14 PM Quants Do the Math on a New Target: Insurance By FinTech Collective Two sigma Investments is partnering with AIG and Hamilton Insurance to provide an automated, online analytical system to issue policies...
9/29/2016 2:35:07 PM "Neighborly Bonds Challenge" winners announced By Sean Lippel Burlington, Vermont is one of the five city winners of the contest that asked public agencies to give innovative proposals for investment...
9/29/2016 2:34:37 PM Captio secures €1m in venture funding By FinTech Collective Barcelona based expenses management platform Captio has raised €1m in venture funding led by Sabadell Venture Capital. Captio helps...
9/29/2016 3:36:19 AM Paddle banks $3.2M for an ecommerce platform targeting SaaS startups By Gareth Jones Paddle, a b2b ecommerce SaaS start-up announced a $3.2M Series A led by BGF Ventures, with participation from Spring Partners.
9/29/2016 3:27:30 AM Trunomi raises $3m in funding round By Gareth Jones Bermudian-based Trunomi, led by founder and CEO Stuart Lacey, has created technology that can simplify the process of sharing personal...
9/29/2016 3:22:14 AM Neobanks Chasing U.K.’s Biggest Lenders Face Battle for Survival By Gareth Jones Bloomberg shines a light in this article on how hard it is to build a challenger bank. UK challenger Atom, which began offering savings...