Los Angeles based nonprofit fundraising software startup Funraise has raised a $9.7m Series A Round led by Toba Capital, after raising a...

Vancouver based SMB bookkeeping services startup Bench has raised an $18m Series B-1 funding round led by iNovia Capital, after raising a...

Brazil based end-to-end local payment solutions startup Ebanx has raised a $30m funding round led by FTV Capital.

The weekly podcast will explore developments and news in the distressed debt and bankruptcy space, as well as a deep dive analysis in key...

The CFTC sent subpoenas to exchange Bitfinex and stable-coin Tether, which share the same CEO.  Bitcoin tumbled below $10k for the...

Zelle has released 2017 stats, showing over 247m payments totaling $75b passing through the platform - more than double Venmo's volume....

Stockholm based behavioral biometrics fraud detection startup BehavioSec has raised a $17.5m Series B led by Trident Capital Cybersecurity.

Paris based corporate card and expense tracking startup Spendesk has raised a $9.9m funding round led by Index Ventures.

Florida based digital flood insurance provider Neptune Flood has raised a $2m Seed Round led by Trevor Burgess, the founder of C1 Bank.

London based SMB lending startup Ezbob has raised a 15m GBP funding round from Da Vinci Capital Management, at a post money valuation of...

Beijing based digital bookkeeping and tax services startup Hsuanzhang has raised an additional $31m Series B led by Xiaomi, after raising...

The three titans aspire to partner on ways to use technology to cut healthcare costs and improve health services, initially for their...

New York based repo trading technology provider GLMX has raised a $20m growth equity financing round led by Sutter Hill Ventures.

For the CEO of Norway's largest bank, the potential ramifications of PSD2 only became clear when he visited China and saw firsthand how...

Coinbase issued a statement that warns its own shareholders from trading stock on secondary markets. 

The Bank of England has estimated that open banking could loose the largest UK lenders more than one billion pounds ($1.38 billion) in...

The operator of one of Japan’s leading trading platforms for cryptocurrencies said it lost $530 million in customer assets, the largest...

Blockchain security startup BitGo is acquiring a digital asset custodian based in South Dakota that holds more than $12 billion in...

British travel company Thomas Cook has partnered with fintech firm Revolut to launch a "pay-per-day" travel insurance service which...

One of the first tasks for Mr. Noto will be to rebuild the executive team, which has been rocked by departures. However SoFi's lending...

Once it goes live next month, the new platform will enable real-time transactions that need only the recipient’s phone number or email...

Wall Street has turned to a quick and cheap valuation process, sometimes outsourcing them to firms in India at $10 an appraisal. The...

Seoul based P2P lending platform Tera Funding has raised a $9.3m Series A led by Woori Bank, Atinum Investment, SBI Investment.

Diwakar Choubey, CEO and cofounder of MoneyLion, discusses the company's origins, recent Series B round, product strategy, and what makes...

Matthew Miller, CEO of Embroker, speaks to the SF Business Times on the impact of technology within the insurance industry, the changing...

Amazon is showing signs of its fintech strategy in India and Mexico by acquiring startups such as Emvantage Payments and BankBazaar,...

San Francisco based alternative credit card startup CreditStacks has raised a $4m Seed Round led by Clear Future and 500 Startups.

Cyrptocurrency has been all the talk at the Davos conference this year.  BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink made an especially...

Boston based automated bookkeeping startup botkeeper has raised a $4.5m Seed Round led by Ignition Partners.

New York based classic car investing marketplace Rally Rd has raised a $2.6m Seed Round led by Columbus Nova.

Robinhood Crytp will launch in February to consumers in California, Massachusets, Missouri, Montana, and New Hampshire.  

Malaysia based POS services startup StoreHub has raised a $5.1m Series A round led by Vertex Ventures.

Robinhood will provide crypto trading services on a breakeven basis, giving customers the ability to combine trading crypto with...

If you rode the crypto bull in 2017 and realized some capital gains, make sure to pay your taxes!  This blog offers some good tips...

The first ETF, enabling investors to buy the S&P 500 index in a single publicly traded share, was launched over 25 years ago....

The FT reviews the evolution of "crimtech" and the spreading phenomenon of online money launderers who are quickly replacing their...

Stripe has announced that it will stop accepting bitcoin payments due to the increasing confirmation times and high fees for...

Shanghai based peer to peer lender Dianrong has raised an additional $70m Series D round, led by ORIX Asia Capital, after raising a $220m...

Overseas contractors, armed with Google Earth and listing websites, are appraising homes in the U.S. by the thousands.  This form of...

In 2017, ICOs raised over $5B across nearly 800 deals in 2017 while equity investors deployed $1B in 215 deals to the sector. 

Washington DC based military and veteran-focused business financing startup StreetShares has raised a $23m Series B round led by Rotunda...

As Bitcoin continues to become less useful for payments given increasing confirmation times and processing costs (tens of dollars per...

Mountain View based tech-enabled home insurance startup Hippo has raised a $25m Series B round led by Comcast Ventures and Fifth Wall,...

In addition to the massive expected cash repatriation, Apple expects to make a $350bn contribution to the US economy over the next five...

Moscow is creating a bank that the Kremlin will use to finance its defence industry in a manoeuvre that will help it avoid new US...

Roughly $980m of credit-card charges are expected to be reversed reversed this year, and the peak period occurs in the weeks after...

Mobile payments in China have surged to $9 trillion a year (US saw $112 billion in 2016), changing how people shop, borrow and even...

Curve's linked credit card is now available to consumers, allowing users to link all of their card accounts to a single app and connected...

New York based investment data and analytics platform has raised a $38m venture round led by Goldman Sachs.

Vestwell will begin to offer investments curated by Morningstar in various asset classes and fund types on its platform.  

Congratulations to Reonomy for being named one of YoStartup's "50 Real Estate Startups to Watch for in 2018"!  The full list is...

San Francisco based 401(k) platform for SMEs has raised a $21m Series B, led by Ribbit Capital with participation from prior investor...

Seattle based SMB tax filing software startup LumaTax has raised a $3m funding round led by Cowboy Ventures with participation from...

San Francisco based apartment rental marketplace Apartment List has raised a $50m Series C round led by Passport Capital, Canaan...

San Francisco based mobile banking startup Varo Money has raised a $45m Series B led by Warburg Pincus and The Rise Fund.

Oakland based single-family home marketplace Roofstock has raised an additional $7m in Series C funding, after a $35m Series C round in...

New York based equity research data and analytics platform Visible Alpha has raised a $38m funding round led by Goldman Sachs, with...

Texas based lending software provider defi SOLUTIONS has raised a $55m Series C from Bain Capital Ventures.

What happens when scammers use a fake John McAfee twitter handle to promote a little-known token?  The price pumps 50% before the...

Frankfurt based physical-movement backed digital currency startup Sweatcoin has raised a $5.7m seed round with participation from...

Alibaba's natural language processing (NLP) neural network scored better than average humans in a Stanford University reading and...

Amid a turbulent day that saw BTC price drop below $10k, the settlement of the first monthly futures happened without a hiccup - an...

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is partnering with blockchain startup Blockstream launch a new crypto data feed, providing historical and...

San Francisco based credit card rewards startup Birch Finance has raised a $1m Seed Round from AGP Miami, Kevin Johnson (former CEO of...

Bangalore based payment API provider Razorpay has raised a $20m Series B round led by Tiger Global, at a valuation over $100m.

Paris based secure crypto hardware wallet startup Ledger has raised a $75m Series B led by Draper Espirit, after raising a $7m round last...

Toronto based financial product comparison startup Ratehub has raised a $12m Series A round led by Elephant Partners LP.  

Chinese officials will not only block access to local and offshore platforms that provide centralized trading, but will target those who...

Tomorrow, on January 17th, the first bitcoin futures will settle.  The CBOE cash-settled contracts will settle based on the 4pm ET...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Market Risk Advisory Committee is set to convene on January 31st to examine the...

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink is informing business leaders that their companies must contribute to society if they want to receive investment...

Cardlytics, the pioneer in using anonymized bank and transaction data for ad targeting, generated $113m in revenue in 2016 and $91m...

The offer from the private equity firms represents a 24% premium to the stock's Friday closing price.  The acquisition may signal...

The fifth-largest crypto exchange has resumed service after scheduled maintenance that was supposed to take two hours but instead took...

Despite the potential for zero knowledge proofs to be used to evade regulation, JPMorgan and ZCash are leading the way in showing how the...

Congratulations to our portfolio company NextCapital for raising their $30m Series C!  We're incredibly excited to have new lead...

Surprise - WSJ investigation shows Fidelity, Schwab and TD Ameritrade, employees win extra pay and other incentives to put clients in...

In this blog post Mighty provides some helpful counterweight to the NY Post's takedown of lawsuit funding "Inside the cottage industry...

But what attracts millennials in particular to cryptocurrencies? Is it because 18 to 34yr olds were either babies or at most a teenagers...

So-called Open Banking kicks off on Saturday in what amounts to a gigantic financial experiment in which Britain is leading the world....

The Treasury Secretary said US authorities, including the Federal Reserve, is working closely with the G-20 to make sure robust KYC are...

New York based alternative credit card provider Petal has raised a $13m Series A led by Valar Ventures, after raising a $3.6m seed round...

San Mateo based B2B payments startup Finexio has raised a $4m Series A led by James R. Heinstand.

Bono's Rise Fund has made it's first fintech investment with Acorns, joining Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Durant as backers.  Bono...

Expanding beyond it's money transfer roots, TransferWise is launching a bank account and debit card which can hold money in 28 currencies...

Texas based white-label mobile banking platform Alkami has raised a $70m Series D round led by General Atlantic.

California based digital real estate agency REX has raised a $15m Series B from individual investors.

Chase is testing six "Everyday Express" digital oriented branches, designed to bring financial advice and wealth management products to...

New York based loan crowdfunding platform YieldStreet has raised a $12.8m funding round led by Greycroft and Raine Ventures, as well as...

South Korea is reportedly preparing a bill to ban all cryptocurrency trading in the country.  More than 10% of ethereum's trading...

India based consumer lending platform EarlySalary has raised a $15.7m Series B round led by Eight Roads Ventures India.

Palo Alto based life insurance startup Ladder has raised a $30m Series B round led by RRE Ventures.

London based direct lending platform Goji has raised an undisclosed amount Series A round from AXA and Anthemis.

Denmark based payments software startup Cardlay has announced a $4.81m Series A round led by SEB Venture and SEED Capital.

Stockholm based marketplace lending startup Lendify has raised a $14m funding round from new and existing investors, at a pre-money...

After announcing that it would create its on blockchain platform and digital currency for photography, Kodak's stock has now nearly...

Building the Goldman Sachs for crypto is Mike Novogratz's latest endeavor in the space.  Novo's new ambitious plan involves...

Tencent has now received a license that allows it to sell mutual funds on WeChat to its more than 980 million users.  WeChat is...

Montreal based robo investing app Mylo has raised a $2.5m Series Seed led by Desjardins Capital.

Coindesk profiles some of the lingering technical issues with the Ethereum network, including a glitch that resulted in unnecessarily...

Best said by downtown Josh Brown on Twitter...."If you had Under Four Months in the capitulation pool, please report to the cashiers...

Telegram is reportedly seeking to raise perhaps the largest ICO to date, with as much as $500m worth of tokens being sold in the pre-ICO...

San Francisco based flexible travel payments startup UpLift has raised a $15m funding round led by Draper Nexus Ventures.

Toronto based planning tool for financial advisors FindBob has raised a $1.26m Series A led by Grinnell Mutual.

New York based blockchain powered loyalty rewards platform Loyyal has raised a $2.3m funding round from REFFIND.

Fortune offers predictions on tech trends in 2018: IoT becoming mixed with blockchain, increased FinTech adoption (especially in...

Berlin based savings deposit marketplace Raisin has raised an undisclosed funding amount from PayPal.  The company has raised a...

Santa Clara based workers comp claims software provider CLARA analytics has raised a $11.5m Series A led by Oak HC/FT

Boston based municipal bond issuer software provider BondLink has raised a $10m Series A led by Franklin Templeton Investments.

Many Coinbase users were surprised to see a new banner message on the top of their accounts on New Years Day - a gentle reminder that...

Bitcoin's market share has fallen below 35% after treading above 55% for most of 2017, and the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies...

New Orleans based construction payments ecosystem zlien has raised a $10m Series B round led by S3 Ventures.

With accusations that Allianz peddled high-cost, in house funds to its employees, the settlement brings to light heightened sensitivity...

California based robo advisor Wealthfront has raised $75 of growth equity capital in a round led by Tiger Global Management.  The...

What a start to 2018 it has been for cryptocurrency, with Ethereum surpassing the $1,000 mark on many major exchanges, nowrepresenting a...

London based home insurance startup Urban Jungle has raised a £1m Seed Round led by Rob Devey, former CEO of Prudential UK.

Huge congratulations to Dee and the team at MoneyLion on their $42m Series B!  This company is just getting started on its mission...

The U.S. government has blocked the MoneyGram - Ant Financial (Alibaba) merger, after months of negotiations.  The two plan to...

After a Dec 2017 Series D valuing the company at $1.3b, Affirm is looking to tackle the 77% online shopping cart abandonment rate by...

Law360 analyzes the impact that recent and upcoming regulation (specific to the U.K), including PSD2, the U.K Open Banking Initiative,...

TechCrunch has released it's Matrix U.S. FinTech Index, a market-cap weighted index that tracks the returns of the 10 largest public...