Portfolio company Vestwell has been named as one of seven XY Planning Network's FinTech Finalists for 2017. 

Oversight by the SEC requires issuers to abide by rules on registering and offering securities. A scheme may qualify if it passes the...

With huge implications for the finance industry quantum computing is attracting attention from investors, but its early and incredibly...

Trying to jump-start increasingly weak sales of life insurance, some of the world’s larger insurers are looking to Discovery, a South...

A wonderful spoof by the FT's Alphaville! We’re really excited to present our vision of a future where Alphaville journalists retire...

Fiserv’s takeover of British fintech pioneer Monitise is on shaky ground after an extraordinary general meeting was postponed by Fiserv...

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...

The FT asked five business leaders (TransferWise, Slack, Twitter, Bumble and Yandex) to share their experiences of summer holiday jobs....

In a must read investor letter, Howard Marks, co-chairman of Oaktree Capital highlights the fact he is not a fan of cryptocurrencies! "In...

MarketAxess still dominates the landscape for electronic corporate bond trading in the US but competition has heated up in recent years...

Alexander Vinnik is accused of using the cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, an exchange used to trade the digital currency bitcoin, since...

Nasdaq has agreed to buy a London-based software company that uses artificial intelligence to sniff out rogue traders, as the US group...

Never doubt GS.  Its been only nine months since GS entered its newly created consumer lending venture, and the platform has been a...

An excellent short insight post by our friend Daniel Glazer pertaining to ICOs and whether or not to register under the Securities Act of...

With its new messaging product, Betterment is allowing customers to send secure messages through the Betterment app to ask for financial...

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...

What about Brexit?  The appetite is still very strong for foreign investment in British fintech companies with over $564m invested,...

The digital banking startup backed by PE firm Warburg Pincus has followed in the footsteps of SoFi and is another example of a fintech...

Have we hit "peak" cyrpto? Bloomberg highlights the story of a former tech banker that has left behind his former career to raise a $50m...

Switzerland based employee compensation startup beqom has raised $35m in new venture funding from Goldman Sachs. Created in 2009, beqom’s...

London based financial management chatbot Cleo has raised £2m in Series Seed funding led by LocalGlobe. Cleo is described as a digital...

London based insurance advisory startup Brolly has raised £1m in Series Seed funding led by Valar Ventures. Brolly is an online and...

London based blockchain startup Billion has secured €2m in grant funding from Horizon 2020. Billon is the 1st FinTech company to solve...

Atlanta based financial savings management platform DoubleNet Pay has secured $4m in Series Seed funding led by TTV Capital and Fuqua...

Stockholm based payment solutions company Klarna has received  $225m in private equity funding from Permira, resulting in a $2.5b...

Worcestershire, UK based cash allocation technology company Rimilia has raised $25m in growth funding led by Kennet Partners and Eight...

Transferwise will allow users in the U.S. and a handful of other countries to send money internationally through Apply Pay.  This...

Beijing based online investment platform Iqianbang has raised $80m in Series B funding led by Zhang Peifeng. Founded in 2013,...

Boston based restaurant point-of-sale company Toast has raised $101m in Series C funding led by Lead Edge Capital and Generation...

A hacker exploited a flaw in Parity, a multi-signature Ethereum wallet, and stole $31m worth of Ether.  Astoundingly, a group of...

The report lays the framework for regulating tokens as securities, which may lead to newfound regulation for ICOs.

Swedish firm Kinnevik, who led Betterments prior round, re-upped their commitment in this $70M raise based on a doubling of AUM from $4B...

While the acting Comptroller now supports a fintech charter, indicating the support of the Trump administration, key questions remain in...

London based accounting technology company Receipt Bank has raised $50m in Series B funding led by Insight Venture Partners. Receipt...

Cincinnati based lending as-a-service solution LendKey has raised $13m in Series C funding led by North Atlantic Capital. LendKey...

San Francisco based payments infrastructure company Karmic Labs has raised $17.2m in Series B funding from investors including Alsop...

Minneapolis based health insurance marketplace Gravie has raised $14.1m in Series C financing from investors FirstMark Capital,

New York based marketplace for investing in private tech companies EquityZen has raised $3m in Series A funding led by Draper Associates....

Raleigh, NC based digital banking company Constellation Digital Partners has raised $3m in Series A financing from Teachers Credit Union....

Cyprus based mobile trading app Capital.Com has raised $25m in Series A funding led by VP Capital. The Capital.com app allows...

Bengaluru, India based trade financing company Vayana Network has raised $4m in Series A financing led by IDG Ventures India and Jungle...

Betterment said that its new socially responsible investing (SRI) portfolio offers a 42% improvement on social responsibility scores...

According to its draft IPO filing, ZhongAn has developed a blockchain protocol called Ann-chain, which will be used to link other...

Austin, TX based online credit building company Self Lender has raised $5m in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners. Self Lender is...

With the advent of quantum computing that puts today's computing power to shame will come the "quantum hack". Switzerland's ID Quantique...

Charles Hoskinson, who helped develop ethereum and now runs tech research firm IOHK, is part of a growing chorus of blockchain watchers...

It has not been lost on Asian incumbents and start-ups, that when Alipay, first launched its Yu’E Bao online money market fund in 2013,...

A new report from Pricewaterhouse shows that women across the world consistently outperformed men on funding campaigns: Globally, females...

This is not the first time that Hinrikus and Käärmann, both Estonians, have swapped the CEO role at the firm that now lets people in...

Portfolio company Reonomy has now officially expanded its offerings to nationwide markets  in a launch that encompasses more than 45...

In another ethereum security setback, Smart contract coding company Parity has issued a security alert, warning of a vulnerability in...

A CoinDash ICO Hacker netted about $10m this week by altering the contract address of the CoinDash ICO project. CoinDash have said that...

Bitcoin reversed steep losses this week as miners began deploying  SegWit2x, the new software which aims to bridge an ideological...

As reported by Bloomberg few things capture this phenomenon like the partnership between Fiat Chrysler and Banco Santander SA. Whilst the...

A report by Royal London ‘The Value of Financial Advice' examined the impact of financial advice on two groups - the ‘affluent' and...

An unknown cryptocurrency trader turned $55 million of paper wealth into $283 million in just over a month. The only clue about this...

Due to missing paperwork proving who owns the loans, tens of thousands of people may be relieved of $5b in delinquent student debt.  

Rival factions amongst developers are poised to adopt two competing software updates (which could split the currency in two) at the end...

Forbes highlights some of the companies that have succeeded at walking the freemium tightrope.  

The 32-year-old Frenchman, who currently works as an engineer in Japan, said the exchange had been profitable and the money he had spent...

New York based financial technology platform iCapital Network has received new investment from UBS Financial Services, who now joins...

San Francisco based insuretech startup Cover has raised $8m in Series A funding led by Social Capital. Cover is an Android and iOS...

San Francisco based mobile lottery ticket management AuttoLotto has raised $17m in Series A funding from investors including iHeartMedia,...

London based credit card startup Curve has raised $10m in Series A funding led by Banco Santander. Curve combines all users’ cards...

London based banking app Revoult has raised $66m in Series B funding led by Index Ventures. Revolut started as a mobile app that lets you...

France based financial management platform Shine has raised €2.8m in Series Seed funding led by Daphni and Kima Ventures. Shine offers...

Jakarta based mobile point-of-sale startup Cashlez has raised $2m in Series Seed funding led by Mandiri Capital. Its wireless card reader...

New York based trading platform Trumid has received $10m in new funding from Deutsche Börse. Trumid offers an electronic credit-trading...

Sydney based investment management platform Macrovue has raised $1.25m in venture funding from AMP, James Goodwin, Inception Asset...

Hong Kong based financial aggregator CompareAsiaGroup has raised $50m in Series B funding led by International Finance Corp....

Asian alternative investment management firm PAG and China-focused private equity firm Primavera Capital Group have led a RMB800 million...

Peering over Yellen's shoulder as she testified that she opposes audits of the Fed, A couple of boyish-looking chaps, quietly raised a...

Goldman Sachs has been awarded a patent for its proposed "SETLcoin" cryptocurrency settlement system. The concept envisions a system for...

Stash, a New York-based startup that lets individuals save small sums of money and make micro-investments through a mobile app, has...

Wealthy clients of Swiss private bank Falcon will be able to store and trade bitcoins via their cash holdings with the bank from...

Based Bloomberg research $560M flowed into ICO's in June alone. For comparison, angel and seed stage investments run at ~$550M each...

The Bank of England has carried out a successful test of an “interledger” programme developed by Ripple. The test did not involve real...

A series of large funding rounds this year saw $19.3bn pour into Asian tech start-ups in the second quarter of the year. By comparison...

Rival developer camps, who play key roles in bitcoin’s upkeep, are poised to adopt two competing software updates at the end of the...

A repair man was rescued in Texas after after accidentally locking himself inside an ATM. With few options of how to get out, he wrote a...

IBM Watson on the cutting edge of AI? Not so fast says Jeffries, who states that the firm trails other tech giants for hiring top tier AI...

Samir Desai (Funding Circle CEO), featured on Bloomberg TV, says that opposite of conventional wisdom - the SMB lending business has...

Not to be left behind, the investment management giant is continuing its foray into digital wealth management and co-launching a US based...

Ranked as a top five global fintech hub by Deloitte, Chicago's deep capital markets foundation (CME, OptionsHouse, Morningstar, Citadel)...

Massive bitcoin mines have been set up in remote parts of Sichuan province, where the miners take advantage of cheap labor and...

The founders of Robinhood had a tough time with VCs early on, as the product had not yet launched or gained regulatory approval....

SixThirty, the St. Louis accelerator focused on B2B fintech, discusses its increasingly international applicant pool and the acceleration...

India's National Stock Exchange suffered its longest ever halt on Monday after an unidentified glitch disrupted orders and price feeds....

Fiserv is integrating portfolio company Vestwell into its Unified Wealth Platform, which will enable advisors to access all their...

The FT Alphaville team and the Bank of England's blog dig into the complexities of Central Bank issued digital money. Both argue the...

New York based risk data management and regulatory reporting technology for the financial services industry firm AxiomSL has announced an...

Amsterdam based core banking provider Ohpen has raised $17m in Series B funding led by Amerborgh. Founded in 2009, Ohpen offers a...

Sydney based secure payments data platform EFTsure has raised $2m in Series A funding led by Our Innovation fund. Founded in 2014 by Ian...

Bangkok based payment gateway Omise has raised $25m in an Initial Coin Offering. Omise is an online payment gateway offering a wide range...

Paris based employee payment startup Payfit has raised $15.9m in Series B funding led by Accel Partners. Instead of relying on outdated...

Brown Brothers Harriman has announced plans to put its CIO in charge of the firm’s new Investor Services business, which seeks to sell...

Simon is an online marketplace for structured notes. It has done well with retail brokers who buy these products but has been slower to...

The City of London wants a new “digital skills visa” to shore up the UK’s position as a financial technology hub against a growing threat...

Cross-border payment startup InstaRem has raised $13 million in new financing led by China’s GSR Ventures as it looks to expand its...

Ohpen, a Dutch-based company that has built cloud-based core banking software, has raised €15 million in Series B funding at a valuation...

Three-quarters of UK university leavers will never pay off their student loans, even if they are still contributing in their 50s,...

Kamilla Bjorlin has appeared in movies with Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins, however court documents allege that Bjorlin was secretly...

French startup PayFit just raised a $15.9 million Series B round from Accel. The company produces legally compliant paychecks, wire...

FutureFuel's CEO Laurel Taylor and her team are looking to crush student debt, creating access to student debt repayment and refinancing...

The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is using FinTech Portfolio company American Prison Data Systems' tablets which will double...

Insightful Entrepreneur magazine article from Richard Sarkis, CEO of portfolio company Reonomy, on his journey from working out of a...

London based banking app Tide has raised $14m in Series A funding led by Anthemis. Tide is a digital-only banking app aimed at small...

Ohio based payment processor Vantiv has acquired UK based payments technology company Worldpay for $10 billion. The target operates in...

Experian will provide Orchard's users with access to depersonalized datasets that will provide greater efficiency and transparency for...

Privately held Red Ventures, the marketing tech firm in South Carolina, has agreed to buy Bankrate, the personal finance website, for...

With more than $4tn invested in ETFs and Vanguard owning a 5% stake in 491 stocks in the S&P 500, Bank of America is warning the...

President Trump and the Republican controlled Congress are set to remake the complex student loan business, potentially eliminating...

GS is talking to several firms about a deal to both invest in Simon, an online marketplace that connects retail brokers with structured...