Gabrielle Haddad, COO of portfolio company Sigma Ratings testified this week, at the invitation of the House Subcommittee on Financial...

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...

BlackRock is coaxing financial advisers to upload their client holdings to a complimentary BlackRock website powered by Aladdin that...

There is not much tech involved, but Ex-bankers from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are hanging out shingles to challenge their old employers...

Aim-listed Plus500 trading platform was among the first to offer derivatives based on bitcoin several years ago, and today offers...

Young people in America are flocking to affording cities like Denvers.  One economists attempts to measure the exodus from SF Bay...

A quarter of the world's population are millennials and they have quickly become the most urbanised cohort of young adults ever.

After saying “It is…not right to become rich overnight by betting on blockchain,” Chinese billionaire Jack Ma launched a cross-border...

2014 and 2018 U.S. National 50+ Squash Doubles Champion, advisor to FinTech Collective and now crypto advisor to his twin daughters, Bill...

Portfolio company Quovo has not faced issues connecting to Capital One according to a statement on Bloomberg from Niko Karvounis, Chief...

A recent UK survey shows that three-quarters of British millennials would rather put their money in shares, bonds or bitcoin rather than...

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...

Trust Token's token sale was backed by a16z crypto, BlockTower Capital, Danhua Capital, Distributed Global, GGV Capital, Jump Capital,...

In a live stage interview, titled “Living in the Age of De-Risking,” Stuart Jones, CEO of portfolio company Sigma Ratings, explored...

Belmont, California based B2B marketplace for returned, excess, and other liquidation merchandise raised $65m from Spectrum Equity. 

Under the settlement, Visa, Mastercard and a number of banks that issue debit and credit cards including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and...

San Francisco based financial management solutions provider for small and midsize businesses has raised a $9m Series B led by Edison...

Palo Alto based SME working capital finance platform focused on the developing markets has raised $15m in Series A funding from Accel...

India based digital insurance business and lending marketplace completed a Series F funding round of over $200m led by Softbank's Vision...

Palo Alto based technology platform designed to offer points applied as payments raises $6m seed round from JetBlue Technology Ventures,...

Singapore based provider of online fraud management solutions raised $20m Series B from Tamasek and GGV Capital. 

New York based white label blockchain platform that helps institutions launch trading platforms and tokenize assets raised $15m from...

Utah based digital mortgage platform raised $20m growth equity from Insight Venture Partners. 

New York based patient financial management platform for hospitals raised a $36m Series B led by Kinnevik along with existing investors...

US-based alternative investment platforms Altegris and Artivest have completed the merger of their businesses. The deal, which will...

The White House is planning to use significant legal measures to curb Chinese investment in industries it deems to be critical for...

Ladislav Mecir is a 57-year-old computer programmer who lives in the small town outside Prague. He compares crypto to CERN (the European...

The acquisition is the fourth deal announced by PayPal in little over a month, as it continues to aggressively expand its business beyond...

At first glance, SoFi’s banking app is no different from the existing options on the market. It comes with a debit card, enables P2P...

Following in the wake of the latest hack on Bithumb, more bad news for crypto. Japan's financial regulator, Financial Services Agency...

PayPal agreed to buy Hyperwallet, a Canada-based payments provider, for $400 million in cash. This acquisition support's PayPal's thesis...

Hong Kong based B2B robo-advisor raised $13.5m series B led by Taiwanese Cathay Financial Holdings, with a growth focus on Australia and...

LA based on-demand insurance platform raised $2m seed round to build the platform. 

Korea based payment app raises $40m bridge round from Sequoia China and Singapore's SWF GIC, a year after it raised $48 million from...

San Francisco based liquidity provider for the private technology growth asset class has raised $15m in Series C funding led by LUN...

SF based tech-enabled wealth management platform has raised a $50 million Series E led by General Atlantic. 

NY based family insurance startup has raised $10 million Series A from Bessemer Venture Partners. 

SF based asset tokenization platform raised $20 million in a strategic token sale to Andreessen Horowitz,and BlockTower Capital

Chinese police have seized more than 200 computers used to mine bitcoin and ethereum after a man tried to swindle the electricity company...

Jihan Wun runs Bitmain Technologies Ltd., the world’s dominant producer of cryptocurrency mining chips. Founded 5 years ago, Bitmain...

France based point of sale solution raised $13.9m from Ring Capital to fund expansion.  

SF based digital personal adviser raised $8m Series A led by Defy Ventures along with athletes including Kevin Durant. 

SF based corporate credit card startup has raised $50 million from Y Combinator Continuity and PayPal cofounders Peter Thiel and Max...

More cash for Goldman.  The hard push to build an online retail bank has led GS to offer 1.75% on deposits, clearly some of the...

As the startup looks to get its IPO plans back on track, it is now unveiling SoFi Money - a mobile first checking and savings product in...

Since 2015, 2,868 retail bank and building society branches have closed or will do so by the end of 2018, with NatWest, HSBC, and Lloyds...

Firm founded by FBI director Louis Freeh didn't conduct a formal audit but had access to Tether Ltd's bank accounts and confirmed...

Chief Operating Officer David Solomon says the investment bank must evolve its business and adapt to the digital currency environment,...

ImpactAlpha interviews Neighborly CEO, Jase Wilson, and gets his candid take on how the Neighborly platform is helping individual...

Fresh off its recent $30 million fundraise, commercial real estate and analytics platform Reonomy is expanding coverage to Canada and...

American Banker highlights MoneyLion's recent hiring of Jon Stevenson, friend of FinTech Collective and former alum of Stifel, Barcalys,...

SF based financial modeling and decision-making tool raised $28m in Series C funding from Focus Financial Partners.

Los Angeles based provider of payment plans for veterinary services raised $6.4m in Series A funding from Companion Fund.

Citibank has reached a settlement with 42 states to pay a $100m fine for manipulation of LIBOR.  The settlement contains details of...

Chicago based home insurance startup has raised $13m of Series Seed from August Capital.

Santa Monica based tech-enabled commercial real estate brokerage firm raised $10.7m Series A led by Stonecutter Capital.

The statement from the SEC eases concerns that regulators would crack down on bitcoin and ether. The SEC did not mention if the same...

The amped up data-tracking on sell-side research has rankled some buy-side customers, who worry that even anonymized readership habits,...

So, based on Sigma Rating's model, who wins the FIFA World Cup Trophy? Well.. Not the host country (who were only surpassed by Iran) and...

An analysis of trading data from 15 global stock exchanges carried out during the 2010 World Cup found that trading volume dropped by...

The European Commission is introducing new rules to label green funds (similar to those rating the energy efficiency of appliances) and...

Congratulations to portfolio company Quovo on its Series B extension, bringing Salesforce Ventures and previously announced Power...

Congratulations to portfolio company Reonomy on raising its $30m Series C, led by SAP-affiliated Sapphire Ventures with participation...

In discussions with Softbank to value the company between $35b and $40b, New York based WeWork is set to become the second most value...

The CEO of Argos wants to become the "Amazon Web Services of crypto" by ‘democratizing’ the crypto-mining process. As he points out, more...

The CEO of RBC, Canada’s biggest bank, believes it must diversify well beyond financial services and turn the lender into a broader...

As the FT reported, the pop turned into a jump, then it started to look like an explosion as . Adyen's first day on public markets in...

HBS talks to our own Brooks Gibbins and some of the other leading names who have helped put NYC on the fintech map whilst also exploring...

San Francisco based platform for selling residential real estate has raised $325m in growth equity  co-led by General Atlantic,...

Seattle-based provider of digital real estate title and settlement transactions raised $20 million in Series A funding led by T. Rowe Price.

Palo Alto-based maker of cloud-based financial management software has been acquired by Adaptive Insights for $1.55b, which is more than...

Is R3 about to run out of money? Forbes goes deep with multiple sources referring to R3’s culture and operations as "a company styling...

As reported by the FT The transaction values Reorg, which expects 2018 cash operating earnings of just under $20m, at between $375m to...

China based enterprise blockchain platform raised around $234 million in Series B funding from Xinhu Zhongbao and China SDIC Gaoxin...

London-based provider of white-label platform for enterprise blockchains raised £2.5 million in Series A funding led by Deepbridge Capital.

Canada-based digital-only banking platform, raised C$2 million ($1.5 million) in seed funding. Investors include Ferst Capital Partners

California based invoice factoring and SMB lender raises $60 million series E funding round led by Menlo Ventures.

With a fresh $150b valuation and $14b of new capital, Ant Financial has further sealed its leading position in China's $15.5 trillion...

A study conducted by an MIT professor finds that heavy users of near-frictionless mobile payments also demonstrate lower levels of...

Principal Financial Group, an insurance company with $673.8 billion in assets under management and a big provider of 401(k) plans to...

Investment firm VanEck has partnered with financial services company SolidX in their latest attempt to launch the first bitcoin...

Amazon is reported to be considering offering home insurance as an offshoot of its development work on robots and other connected devices...

Oakland based online consumer debt restructuring and consolidation platform has raised $7m of Series A led by Prudential Financial and...

The crypto venue has met with the OCC to explore a banking charter that would allow it o hold reserves with the Fed, natively access the...

Coinbase's acquisition of KeyStone Capital will clear the path for to operate as a regulated broker-dealer, with the potential to offer...

Dadiani Fine Art in London, in partnership with blockchain platform Maecenas, will put 49% of the Andy Warhol work up for sale on June...

Massachusetts based specialty lender to powersport dealerships / finance companies has raised $30m of debt capital from Crestline.

Portfolio company Vestwell is thrilled to welcome Allianz Life Ventures to the family! Allianz and its affiliates bring critical...

The new position will see Valerie A. Szczepanik coordinate efforting across all SEC Divisions and Offices regarding the application of...

Berlin based insurance startup has raised $30 million lead by Valar Ventures.  

London based fully digital mortgage solution has closed £3.7m in Series Seed funding led by Ubon Partners.  The startup is initially...

While disaster has been averted in the form of multiple competing blockchains, the launch of EOS, which as reported by the WSJ has raised...

Oakland based card issuer and processor raised $45 million from Iconiq Capital and Goldman Sachs. Total funding to date is $116...

The early findings of the inquiry into Australian banks and financial services firms has revealed malpractice that in some cases has...

Portfolio company Artivest has partnered with RBC to launch a new cloud-based digital alternative investment platform for HNW customers....

India-based smart POS device maker Pine Labs raised a $125m venture financing from Singapore's Tamasek and PayPal. Pine Labs has raised...

Portfolio company Quovo has been selected by Canadian virtual family office platform Onist to provide more robust and reliable financial...