3/30/2018 11:33:23 PM 10 YEARS AFTER THE CRISIS. By Gareth Jones The financial crisis and the massive federal response reshaped the world we live in. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at some of the...
3/30/2018 4:33:23 PM Walmart in Early-Stage Acquisition Talks With Humana By Gareth Jones The talks come as health-service providers are rapidly pairing off and retailers are looking to bulk up in the face of the competitive...
3/30/2018 4:28:18 PM RBS to acquire book-keeping software firm FreeAgent By Gareth Jones RBS is to acquire UK accounting software vendor FreeAgent in a deal that values the firm at £53 million. More than 60,000 customers use...
3/30/2018 4:25:37 PM Blockchain company Centrifuge wants every business to get paid on time By Gareth Jones The co-founders behind Centrifuge previously created Taulia a supply-chain financing company that raised over $150 million and still...
3/30/2018 4:22:07 PM How a Billionaire Crypto King Built the No. 1 Exchange in Just 8 Months By Gareth Jones In less than 8 months, the founder of Binance has grown his company from an idea into the world’s largest digital-asset exchange by...
3/30/2018 4:10:15 PM Fintech ‘alley cat’ Michael Spencer gets the cream with CME deal By Gareth Jones Mr Spencer has survived decades in cut-throat markets to agree the biggest deal of his life. It will earn him more than £670m if...
3/30/2018 4:01:27 PM The distributional effects of UK monetary policy (2008- 2014) By Gareth Jones Great FT Alphaville article discussing the BoE working paper on the distributional impact of UK monetary policy easing and crucially...
3/30/2018 3:12:51 PM Flipside Crypto raises $3.4m to predict successful crypto investments By Sean Lippel Boston based investment portfolio and data solutions for cryptocurrencies has closed a $3.4m Series Seed round led by True Ventures.
3/30/2018 3:07:22 PM Atidot raises $5m Series A By Sean Lippel Tel Aviv based big data and predictive analytics software for life insurance raised a $5m Series A led by Vertex Ventures with...
3/30/2018 12:03:13 AM Vanguard joins fintech company for German market push By Gareth Jones Vanguard, the world’s 2nd largest asset manager, has teamed up with Berlin-based savings startup Raisin to sell its products in a deal...
3/29/2018 11:58:34 PM Denizen launches first account with fee-free cross-border payments By Gareth Jones Denizen, created at BBVA’s in-house incubator and funded by the bank’s digital business unit, charges no foreign exchange fees, provides...
3/29/2018 1:50:10 PM Fintech guru Ron Suber endorses AI powered personal app MoneyLion, joins MoneyLion Board By Sean Lippel Congrats to MoneyLion for constantly adding talent and expertise to its mission to create the private bank membership for America's...
3/29/2018 1:42:08 PM Robots aren't quite ready to replace Wall Street's salespeople By Sean Lippel Matt Levine from Bloomberg covers how JP Morgan has brought Alexa to its trading floors to take on some of the more mundane and...
3/29/2018 1:38:42 PM Ping An Starts Work on Up to $3 Billion OneConnect IPO By FinTech Collective OneConnect, Ping An's financial management portal which offers AI-powered services such as risk management to financial firms, has picked...
3/29/2018 1:32:01 PM Nvidia CEO comments on GPU shortage caused by Ethereum By FinTech Collective Despite the CEO's insistence that Nvidia is not in the business of cryptocurrency or distributed ledgers, there is a shortage of the...
3/29/2018 1:29:55 PM DocuSign is the latest tech unicorn to file for an IPO By Sean Lippel The 15 year-old provider of electronic signature services has filed its Form S-1 with the SEC for its listing as DOCU. Its last funding...