7/28/2017 7:13:34 PM Vestwell named as XY Planning Network FinTech Finalist By FinTech Collective Portfolio company Vestwell has been named as one of seven XY Planning Network's FinTech Finalists for 2017.
7/28/2017 2:25:57 PM The FT examnines the SECs declaration that tokens issued by "The Dao" will be treated as securities By Gareth Jones Oversight by the SEC requires issuers to abide by rules on registering and offering securities. A scheme may qualify if it passes the...
7/28/2017 1:50:11 PM Venture Firms Back Startup with Novel Twist on Quantum Computing By Gareth Jones With huge implications for the finance industry quantum computing is attracting attention from investors, but its early and incredibly...
7/28/2017 1:48:04 AM Who Needs Life Insurance? Insurers Try Rewarding New Customers By Gareth Jones Trying to jump-start increasingly weak sales of life insurance, some of the world’s larger insurers are looking to Discovery, a South...
7/28/2017 1:39:12 AM Introducing Alphachain, the Alphaville ICO By Gareth Jones A wonderful spoof by the FT's Alphaville! We’re really excited to present our vision of a future where Alphaville journalists retire...
7/28/2017 1:31:57 AM Fiserv’s takeover of British fintech pioneer Monitise is on shaky ground By Gareth Jones Fiserv’s takeover of British fintech pioneer Monitise is on shaky ground after an extraordinary general meeting was postponed by Fiserv...
7/28/2017 1:26:44 AM Private equity bid for Paysafe stokes payments M&A boom By Gareth Jones PE firms Blackstone and CVC joined a rush to snap up payments companies with a $3.7bn bid for Paysafe Group which offers pre-paid...
7/28/2017 1:19:05 AM The teenage summer jobs that shaped leaders By Gareth Jones The FT asked five business leaders (TransferWise, Slack, Twitter, Bumble and Yandex) to share their experiences of summer holiday jobs....
7/28/2017 1:13:34 AM Investor Howard Marks: Cryptocurrencies Aren't Real By Gareth Jones In a must read investor letter, Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital highlights the fact he is not a fan of cryptocurrencies! "In...
7/28/2017 1:01:29 AM MarketAxess defends its corporate bond trading status By Gareth Jones MarketAxess still dominates the landscape for electronic corporate bond trading in the US but competition has heated up in recent years...
7/28/2017 12:55:01 AM Cyber criminal who laundered $4bn in bitcoin arrested in Greece By Gareth Jones Alexander Vinnik is accused of using the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, an exchange used to trade the digital currency bitcoin, since...
7/28/2017 12:47:25 AM Nasdaq to buy London-based regtech company Sybenetix By Gareth Jones Nasdaq has agreed to buy a London-based software company that uses artificial intelligence to sniff out rogue traders, as the US group...
7/27/2017 11:14:38 PM How Goldman Sachs is disrupting this $1tn industry By Sean Lippel Never doubt GS. Its been only nine months since GS entered its newly created consumer lending venture, and the platform has been a...
7/27/2017 11:07:03 PM Wilson Sonsini's overview of ICO regulatory considerations By Sean Lippel An excellent short insight post by our friend Daniel Glazer pertaining to ICOs and whether or not to register under the Securities Act of...
7/27/2017 11:01:17 PM After raising $70m, Betterment expands financial advice to all users By Sean Lippel With its new messaging product, Betterment is allowing customers to send secure messages through the Betterment app to ask for financial...
7/27/2017 10:50:20 PM Lendio surpasses $500m in SMB loans originated through its marketplaces By Sean Lippel Congrats to Brock and team! In less than four years, Lendio has given loans to more than 21k SMBs in the US. The marketplace has over 75...