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...

The talks come as health-service providers are rapidly pairing off and retailers are looking to bulk up in the face of the competitive...

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...

The co-founders behind Centrifuge previously created Taulia a supply-chain financing company that raised over $150 million and still...

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...

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...

Great FT Alphaville article discussing the BoE working paper on the distributional impact of UK monetary policy easing and crucially...

Boston based investment portfolio and data solutions for cryptocurrencies has closed a $3.4m Series Seed round led by True Ventures. 

Tel Aviv based big data and predictive analytics software for life insurance raised a $5m Series A led by Vertex Ventures with...

Vanguard, the world’s  2nd largest asset manager, has teamed up with Berlin-based savings startup Raisin to sell its products in a...

Denizen, created at BBVA’s in-house incubator and funded by the bank’s digital business unit, charges no foreign exchange fees, provides...

Congrats to MoneyLion for constantly adding talent and expertise to its mission to create the private bank membership for America's...

Matt Levine from Bloomberg covers how JP Morgan has brought Alexa to its trading floors to take on some of the more mundane and...

OneConnect, Ping An's financial management portal which offers AI-powered services such as risk management to financial firms, has picked...

Despite the CEO's insistence that Nvidia is not in the business of cryptocurrency or distributed ledgers, there is a shortage of the...

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...

San Francisco based mobile lending platform Branch has raised a $20m Series B led by Trinity Ventures, alongside $50m in debt capital.

Ant Financial's consumer lending business appears to be facing serious regulatory headwinds, with a 74 percent quarter-over-quarter...

Singapore-based SME payment processor has raised a $1.7m seed round led by Sequoia India and SeedPlus.

Braintree is launching a new solution that eases transaction services (e.g. connecting with specialized AML tech providers) and better...

San Francisco based Credit Karma has received $500m in a secondary offering from Silver Lake, valuing the company at $4b.

New York based health insurance startup Oscar has raised a $165m financing at a $3.2b post-money valuation led by Founders Fund....

Roadrunner financial, the lending arm of portfolio company Octane Lending, is expanding coverage to include outdoor power vehicles such...

RIABiz features the growth of portfolio company Vestwell, with several key new hires, advisors, and a new Board member.  RIABiz also...

Ohio based technology enabled auto insurance provider has raised a $51m Series C funding round led by Redpoint Ventures.

Leading retirement platform Empower has integrated portfolio company Quovo so that participants can have a comprehensive view of all...

Barrons reviews some of the startups attacking the 401(k) space, noting portfolio company Vestwell's unique approach of arming (rather...

The strategic partnership will enable SEI to implement build out new applications with real-time account information for financial...

Vancouver based digital asset gaming company CryptoKitties has raised a $12m Series A from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures.

U.K. Finance Minister Philip Hammond unveiled a task force that examines the risks and benefits of cryptocurrencies. The task force...

Car insurers haul in roughly $230 billion of premiums a year, but much of that intake could evaporate in coming decades as damage...

The increase in its market capitalization of more than $100 billion is partly due to the fast growth of its life and health-insurance...

Blockchain has yet to cross the chasm from technology enthusiasts to the wider marketplace and a major part of the reason is that we...

He's finally talking and while he's not explicitly apologizing for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is...

A great read from the notes of the first institutional investor in Spotify. Great reminders of the importance of backing a great team and...

The Church of England said it would introduce portable card readers at more than 16,000 churches, cathedrals and religious sites, after a...

NYC based digital financial news provider Cheddar has raised $22m in Series D financing led by Raine Ventures.

NYC based online student lending platform has raised a $50m Series D led by Fifth Third Bank.

New York based digital financial news startup Cheddar announced $22m of Series D financing led by Raine Ventures.  The valuation on...

New York based online student lender has raised $50m led by Fifth Third Bank, with participation from First Republic Bank and Columbia...

Experian has been working with acquired company Clarity Services to create the Clear Early Risk Score, helping to score thin file...

Shoppers can now secure credit in just seconds before they get to the register and then pay off their purchase in fixed monthly...

French fintech startup Lydia, which as 1m users and is available in France, Ireland, UK, Spain, and Portugal, has launched its premium...

German challenger bank N26 raised $160m Series C round led by Tencent and Allianz.  The company processes $16bn in transaction...

LendAcademy features portfolio company MoneyLion's new subscription product, MoneyLion plus, which can help consumers save and invest...

Tandem, the UK based digital bank, closed a deal to acquire Pariti, also UK based PFM app with 95k registered users.  Earlier this...

Ireland based student loan provider closed $49.5m of Series C funding led by KCK with participation from S-Cubed and Invus. 

Chicago based pet insurance company Figo has raised $4m of equity financing from HCS Capital Partners.  Figo become one of the...

The freemium stock trading app has added a web version, stock option trading, and of course its crypto exchange in the past year - and...

InvestmentNews reports that the bipartisan bill would raise to $250bn from $50bn the asset threshold for SIFI status, and banks with less...

In a patent application released Thursday, the bank outlines a distributed platform that would use more data sources than traditional...

Experian has acquired Clearscore, a young London-based fintech company, in a deal worth £275 million. Clearscore, which was launched in...

Probably the biggest quote in "VC land" this week was from Jina Choi, director of the SEC’s San Francisco regional office in relation to...

CME Group, the US futures exchange, has made a preliminary bid for Michael Spencer’s Nex Group, a move likely to spark a race among...

In this SEC press release the punishment meeted out to Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is laid bare. “As a result of Holmes’ alleged...

Portfolio company Vestwell welcomes John Moody (founder and former president of Matrix) to its Board of Directors and Drew Lawton (former...

San Francisco based accounting services platform Pilot raised $15m of Series A capital led by Index Ventures.

SF based bitcoin infrastructure provider has raised $2.5m in Seed financing from Jack Dorsey, David Sacks, and Bill Lee.

Contrary to the astonishing power usage of the Bitcoin network - could crypto actually catalyze a green energy future?  Kumamoto...

Google has expressed concern about consumer harm and scams in the crypto space, leading the search giant to remove crypto related...

Vitalik Buterin has revealed that Casper Proof-of-Stake is nearing implementation on the mainnet.  Ethereum would become by far the...

With the choice of David Solomon to succeed Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs may be diversifying away from its core trading business in...

The financial information company is tracking and analyzing bitcoin chatter on 400 of website and social media sources to extract...

Project "Cookie" as Marcus is called internally at Goldman has lent $2.5 billion so far and has 350,000 customers across loans and...

A great long form read by Gizmodo for anyone who is a fan of the connected home. Their experiment might change your mind as they confirm...

And at JPMC's investor day Mr. Dimon provided reassurance around the bank's ability to continue winning market share by increasing...

When Embroker CEO Matt Miller, who sat on the board of one of the top 10 commercial insurance brokers, couldn't even help his friend...

MoneyLion Plus, launched in December of 2017, has already helped its users save a cumulative $1m, with users engaging with the...

Kansas based working capital marketplace raised $100m in equity funding by Allianz SE and Mubadala.

NYC provider of node deployment and management software has raised $3.3m in Seed funding led by Comcast Ventures, with participation from...

Matt Hanson, Partner at Runway Growth Capital and friend of FinTech Collective, pens a short thought piece of the merits of startups...

The class action lawsuit filed on behalf of all Coinbase traders alleges that customers suffered monetary damages as a result of Coinbase...

Coinbase has rolled out the passive fund to track the tokens that trade on its GDAX exchange to provide customers with a more seamless...

Wired follows the narrative of Kingdom Trust, from its early days as qualified custodian for traditional assets in the wake of the...

As 5G promises super-fast download speeds and ability to support everything from VR to autonomous cars, the top-down approach being...

New York based blockchain node deployment startup has raised a $3.3m seed investment from Comcast Ventures.

FinTech portfolio company and legal / medical funding software provider Mighty has raised $9m of equity financing co-led by existing...

Boston based insurance loss mitigation startup has raised a $4m Series Seed led by Bain Capital Ventures.

S&P Global is acquiring Boston based Kensho for $550m as it looks to utilize its data analytics and machine learning platform on its...

San Francisco based real estate software platform Qualia raises a $33m Series B led by Menlo Ventures.

New York based tech enabled PEO has raised a $40m Series D led by FirstMark Capital.

New York, London, and Israel based capital markets infrastructure startup has announced its $9m Series Seed led by Sequoia Capital as...

Ecobank and Zenith bank are working with Mastercard to enable SMB owners to set up merchant accounts, complete on-boarding, and take...

The W&A management industry is not the only vertical of financial services paying attention to the social impact mandate - SMB lender...

By hiring Emilie Choi, who previously oversaw 40 deals at LinkedIn, Coinbase is signaling a potential move to grow via acquisition.

After learning a thing or two by implementing large-scale blockchain systems for capital markets (e.g. with the DTCC and its member...

Amazon and JPMorgan are in the exploratory stage of a deal that could enable the e-commerce behemoth to offer checking accounts to its...

Sao Paolo based challenger bank Nubank raised a $150m growth equity round led by DST Global.

National Review muses on whether quantum computers may be powerful enough to solve the computationally intensive math problems that serve...

In collaboration with Berlin-based startup XAIN, Porsche is testing blockchain applications for its cars. Potential use cases including...

London based blockchain-enabled consumer brokerage raised a $5m venture round from Susquehanna International.

Chicago based regtech and AI startup raised a $6m venture round led by Alsop Louie Partners.

Axios covers the hottest topic in America's boardrooms today during the Trump era - mounting social pressure being put on corporations by...

Paul Polman has long believed that short-term profit maximization can distract companies from long-term environmental, social, and...

Mirae Asset Global Investment is investing $488m to take a 100% stake in Global X, an ETF company in New York that is known for its...

In a world were the employee pension plan is a thing of the past, Matt Carey and the Blueprint Income team have a plan to reinvent the...

Revolut, a high growth UK fintech start that lets users swap dozens of currencies and send/receive money, is now break-even and focused...

New York based provider of guaranteed income retirement solutions raised a $2.75m seed round led by Green Visor and NextView Ventures,...

SF based cyber insurance platform raised a $10m Series A funding led by Vy Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.

SF based cyber insurance platform raised a $10m Series A funding led by Vy Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Valor Equity Partners.