6/29/2018 5:20:10 PM Sigma Ratings Congressional Testimony: "International and Domestic Implications of De-Risking By Gareth Jones Gabrielle Haddad, COO of portfolio company Sigma Ratings testified this week, at the invitation of the House Subcommittee on Financial...
6/29/2018 5:01:20 PM Andreessen Horowitz officially debuts a crypto fund and hires a female GP to run it By Gareth Jones The main catalyst for the fund according to Chris Dixon was that "Funds are not allowed to have more than 20 percent of their assets in...
6/29/2018 4:47:04 PM BlackRock Is Offering a Free Perk That Lets It See Inside Your Portfolio By Gareth Jones BlackRock is coaxing financial advisers to upload their client holdings to a complimentary BlackRock website powered by Aladdin that...
6/29/2018 4:38:09 PM Upstarts Crash Wall Street’s $7 Billion Capital-Markets Party By Gareth Jones There is not much tech involved, but Ex-bankers from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are hanging out shingles to challenge their old employers...
6/29/2018 4:32:51 PM Cryptocurrency surge propels AIM listed Plus500 into the main market By Gareth Jones Aim-listed Plus500 trading platform was among the first to offer derivatives based on bitcoin several years ago, and today offers...
6/29/2018 3:56:57 PM Migrant millennials are redrawing the map of America By Sean Lippel Young people in America are flocking to affording cities like Denvers. One economists attempts to measure the exodus from SF Bay Area...
6/29/2018 3:49:35 PM The millennial moment - in charts By Sean Lippel A quarter of the world's population are millennials and they have quickly become the most urbanised cohort of young adults ever.
6/29/2018 3:42:10 PM Jack Ma Slams Bitcoin Speculation While Launching Remittance Service Built on Blockchain By Gareth Jones After saying “It is…not right to become rich overnight by betting on blockchain,” Chinese billionaire Jack Ma launched a cross-border...
6/29/2018 1:26:57 PM Honey, I Cryptoed the Kids By Gareth Jones 2014 and 2018 U.S. National 50+ Squash Doubles Champion, advisor to FinTech Collective and now crypto advisor to his twin daughters, Bill...
6/29/2018 12:41:39 PM Capital One Restricts Third-Party Data Access to Plaid, Upsets Customers By Gareth Jones Portfolio company Quovo has not faced issues connecting to Capital One according to a statement on Bloomberg from Niko Karvounis, Chief...
6/29/2018 12:19:24 PM UK Millennials favour shares and bitcoin over home ownership By Gareth Jones A recent UK survey shows that three-quarters of British millennials would rather put their money in shares, bonds or bitcoin rather than...
6/29/2018 12:15:31 PM UK financial entrepreneur Anthony Thomson is launching a new digital bank in Australia By Gareth Jones Anthony Thomson, who co-founded Metro Bank and Atom Bank in the UK is at it again, but now in Oz. He's co-founding "86 400" (named after...
6/29/2018 12:11:48 PM TrustToken Raises $20 Million USD in Strategic Round By Gareth Jones Trust Token's token sale was backed by a16z crypto, BlockTower Capital, Danhua Capital, Distributed Global, GGV Capital, Jump Capital,...
6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM Sigma Ratings participates in UAE Banks Federation’s forum highlighting new challenges. By Gareth Jones In a live stage interview, titled “Living in the Age of De-Risking,” Stuart Jones, CEO of portfolio company Sigma Ratings, explored...
6/28/2018 3:28:08 PM B-Stock raised $65m in growth round from Spectrum Equity By Faisal Kawar Belmont, California based B2B marketplace for returned, excess, and other liquidation merchandise raised $65m from Spectrum Equity.
6/28/2018 3:27:32 PM Visa, Mastercard Near Settlement Over Card-Swipe Fees By Faisal Kawar Under the settlement, Visa, Mastercard and a number of banks that issue debit and credit cards including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and...