7/31/2018 6:04:19 PM New rating agency ranks EM banks by financial crime risk By Sean Lippel EuroMoney details how a distinguished US Treasury official and an international corporate lawyer (she also won the IBM AI hackathon)...
7/31/2018 5:35:44 PM Cloud9 raises Series B By FinTech Collective New York-based financial communications provider raised $14 million in Series B funding from Barclays, JPMorgan and NEX Group.
7/31/2018 5:22:07 PM Gusto Raises $140 Million By FinTech Collective San Francisco-based payroll, benefits and HR technology platform for small businesses, raised $140 million in Series C funding led by T....
7/30/2018 10:19:32 PM Walmart's Fintech Partner Helps Break Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle By Sean Lippel SF based money management app and paycheck lender Even has raised $40m of Series B funding led by Khosla. More than 200k Walmart ...
7/30/2018 10:12:20 PM Exclusive: Zuckerberg-backed micro-scholarship startup raises $15 million By FinTech Collective San Francisco micro-scholarship startup RaiseMe has raised $15m in Series B funding led by Teamworthy Ventures.
7/30/2018 10:10:08 PM Experian leads $28M investment in Southeast Asia fintech startup C88 By FinTech Collective Singapore based platform for lenders to reach new customers has raised $28m in venture financing, led by Experian.
7/30/2018 5:50:18 PM IEX Exchange Has Wall Street Fame But No Listings By FinTech Collective Though New York based IEX, a six year old startup, handles around 2.4% of daily U.S. trading volume, it has so far failed to attract any...
7/30/2018 3:04:02 PM BlockFi Raises $52.5 Million in Round Lead by Novogratz's Galaxy Digital By FinTech Collective New York based collateralized crypto lender BlockFi has raised $52.5m in venture financing led by Galaxy Digital.
7/30/2018 2:57:40 PM Tron Foundation Officially Completes Acquisition of BitTorrent By FinTech Collective BitTorrent, which took the mantle from Napster as a pioneering peer-to-peer protocol for filesharing, has been acquired by Tron - a...
7/27/2018 8:10:20 PM Correlation Ventures: Taking the “Gut Feel” out of VC By FinTech Collective Founded in 2006, Correlation Ventures didn't make any investments over its first 4 years. Instead, the founders amassed the most...
7/27/2018 8:06:36 PM Scoop: Inside Google's Venture Capital "Machine" By FinTech Collective Google Ventures leverages an algorithm called "The Machine" when making investment decisions. The algo accounts for a broad variety of...
7/27/2018 6:03:35 PM OpenInvest Secures $10.4M In Series A Round, Led By QED Investors By FinTech Collective San Francisco based socially responsible investing platform OpenInvest has raised a $10m Series A led by QED Investors.
7/27/2018 5:52:17 PM Unlike in China UK fintech start-ups aren't eating the banks' lunch just yet By Gareth Jones A recent mobile data study of just over 1.5m mobile users in the UK between April 9 and July 1 this year found the top ten most-used...
7/27/2018 5:28:05 PM Pumping and dumping in crypto markets By Gareth Jones The FT explores some of the blatant Pump and dump schemes on Telegram. Other examples of market manipulation that are thought to be rife...
7/27/2018 3:51:31 PM Chinese Investors Reel as Internet Lenders Close By Gareth Jones As a slowing economy and tighter regulatory controls bite, over 200 Chinese online lenders have shut their doors since June, stranding...
7/27/2018 3:43:12 PM Nigerians Bury Cash in Backyards as Mobile Money Stumbles By Gareth Jones Bloomberg explores why Nigeria (which vies with South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy) is struggling to get mobile money off...