4/28/2017 8:04:48 PM The Perils Of A Cashless Economy By Gareth Jones As Fortune point out, in a world without cash, we won’t even have the friction of pulling out a credit card to stand between us and...
4/28/2017 7:42:27 PM Game changer: the countdown to PSD2 By FinTech Collective PSD2, which is scheduled to be implemented in January 2018, will effectively end banks' monopoly on their customers' account data.
4/28/2017 6:39:00 PM Baoquan raises $3.6m angel funding By FinTech Collective Hangzhou, China based Blockchain startup Baoquan has raised $3.6m in angel funding led by Dingfeng Capital, Zhejiang Tsinghua Yangtze...
4/28/2017 4:55:48 PM SiriusXM acquires connected car company Automatic for over $100M By Gareth Jones You can gather a lot of data from a car's OBD-II port! What will they do with it? SiriusXM has apparently recently started to explore...
4/28/2017 4:52:40 PM Pulse Cashflow Finance receives £14m financing By FinTech Collective Basingstoke, UK based invoice finance and credit management specialist Pulse Cashflow Finance has received a £14m financing facility from...
4/28/2017 4:51:17 PM Spotify Buys Startup To Help It Track Musician Royalties By Gareth Jones Spotify has bought Mediachain Labs, a small Brooklyn-based company that specializes in blockchain technology. Mediachain will help...
4/28/2017 4:49:09 PM Propel secures $4m Seed Financing By FinTech Collective Brooklyn based spending management platform Propel has raised $4m in Series Seed funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz,...
4/28/2017 4:45:15 PM Life insurance startup Singapore Life raises S$70 mil in funding By Gareth Jones Credit China FinTech and IPGL led the round and Singapore Life has applied to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a direct life...
4/28/2017 3:33:32 PM Ivalua raises $70m equity funding By FinTech Collective Paris and California based spend management platform Ivalua has raised $70m in growth equity minority funding from KKR. Ivalua’s...
4/28/2017 2:54:40 PM Welcome to the Hyper-Meritocracy By Gareth Jones Deep thoughts from Mr. Parrish on how to stay relevant with the unrelenting advance of AI on human labour. The world is about to get a...
4/28/2017 2:52:04 PM Oddup secures $6m Series A By FinTech Collective Hong Kong based startup analysis and investment advice patform Oddup has raised $6m in Series A funding led by The Times Group. With a...
4/28/2017 4:14:43 AM Quovo extends its product offerings after raising a $10m Series B By Gareth Jones As American Banker points out well, portfolio company Quovo now has its hand not only in wealth management and banking but also in...
4/28/2017 4:08:59 AM Amazon and Google open their speech recognition technology to developers By Gareth Jones Both Google and Amazon opened up access to their respective Machine Learning based speech recognition technology this week - The race to...
4/28/2017 4:01:12 AM The Hidden Cash in Your Assets By Gareth Jones New lenders are giving people ways to get money from their homes, cars and even unused vacation days! An example is Point who enable...
4/28/2017 3:52:16 AM Millennials Are Most Likely to Fall for an IRS Scam By Gareth Jones According to the IRS, phone based tax scams conned 4,550 victims out of more than $23 million between 2013 and 2015. Why is the digital...
4/27/2017 5:42:30 PM Getsurance recieves €2m Seed funding By FinTech Collective Berlin based insuretch startup Getsurance has raised €2m in Series Seed funding led by Picus Capital and PostFinance. Getsurance is a...