5/31/2017 1:47:38 PM Quovo raises $10m, enters big leagues By FinTech Collective One of wealth management's leading trade publications, RIABiz, has featured Quovo and it's "second mover advantage." As described by CEO...
5/26/2017 6:17:51 PM Tesla is pushing the insurance industry to prepare for massive disruption By FinTech Collective According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), crash rates for Tesla vehicles have dropped by 40% since...
5/26/2017 6:05:35 PM Funding for real estate challenger Spruce shows New York’s startup scene is thriving By FinTech Collective The startup's founders, who come out of Betterment, are on a mission to reform title insurance to make it easier, faster, and cheaper to...
5/26/2017 5:57:31 PM Even the world’s largest bitcoin exchange couldn’t handle this week’s cryptocurrency boom By FinTech Collective Coinbase was dragged offline this week by the massive increase in traffic and crypto interest. Users were unable to trade and often...
5/26/2017 5:51:09 PM Insurance startup Quilt adds life insurance to its portfolio of products By FinTech Collective In partnership with Generation Life, Quilt is looking to simplify life insurance for digital natures with an application process that...
5/26/2017 5:40:54 PM OnDeck under pressure to make bigger cuts to cost base By FinTech Collective Activist investors are pressuring the small business lender to cut costs and turn a profit by the end of the year. This maneuver may...
5/25/2017 10:30:20 PM Fintech's Coming to Trounce India's Banks By Gareth Jones Whilst Paytm announced a $1.4 billion investment by SoftBank, McKinsey reported that India's banks, which still dominate the country's...
5/25/2017 9:33:24 PM Bank of Canada says DLT not ready for interbank payment system By Gareth Jones Following a year-long experiment with R3 and Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada says that distributed ledger technology is not ready to...
5/25/2017 9:21:26 PM Bitcoin's murkier rivals line up to displace it as cybercriminals' favourite By Gareth Jones Reuters digs into how cyber criminals are developing new and more complex money-laundering methods using newer techniques and unregulated...
5/25/2017 6:44:57 PM The Rise of the Fat Start-Up By Gareth Jones Having raised $300 million and more than more than $500 million in debt. Opendoor has become a model for a new kind of tech upstart: Call...
5/25/2017 6:24:17 PM Want To Hold An ICO? CoinList Makes It Easy -- And Legal By Gareth Jones Naval Ravikant from Angel List makes a good point in Forbes that "it's not clear that all of ICO's comply with U.S. securities laws or...
5/25/2017 5:59:19 PM Wall Street's Endangered Species: The Ivy League Jock By Gareth Jones Former colleague athletes, whose natural career path led to them to trading floors of Wall Street are encouraging their alma mater to not...
5/25/2017 5:20:47 PM Blispay raises $12m venture funding By FinTech Collective Baltimore based in-store financing platform Blispay has raised $12m venture funding in an undisclosed round led by Accomplice, FirstMark...
5/25/2017 4:39:55 PM StashAway raises $2.15m pre-Series A By FinTech Collective Singapore based digital financial advisor StashAway has raised $2.15m in pre-Series A funding led by Francis Rozario. Founded by Michele...
5/25/2017 4:36:35 PM MortgageGym raises £2m Seed round By FinTech Collective Surrey, UK based mortgage robo advisor MortgageGym has raised £2m in Series Seed funding from China Pacific Capital, Trifecta Capital and...
5/25/2017 4:04:21 PM FS Card raises $30m Venture Funding By FinTech Collective Washington, DC based financial services startup FS card has raised $30m in venture funding from Tricadia Capital Management. Founded in...