12/20/2019 6:29:20 PM Ocrolus COO featured on American Express' data protection survey By Faisal Kawar TransUnion’s survey revealed ~46% of consumers worry about being victimized by fraud. Vikas Dua, COO of portfolio company Ocrolus,...
12/20/2019 3:51:20 PM Leapfin, a startup selling corporate finance tooling, raised $4.5m in funding By Faisal Kawar San Francisco based finance ops automation platform raised $4.5m led by Bowery Capital.
12/20/2019 3:48:49 PM Levelset, a payment startup for contractors, raised $30m in funding By Faisal Kawar New Orleans based payment startup for contractors raised $30m in funding from Horizons Ventures.
12/20/2019 3:45:43 PM Ripple raised $200m in a Series C funding round led by Tetragon By Faisal Kawar San Francisco based blockchain developer behind XRP has raised $200m in Series C funding led by Tetragon.
12/20/2019 3:39:49 PM TradeBlock partners with LMAX Digital to publish trading volumes By Faisal Kawar LMAX Digital, the leading institutional spot crypto currency exchange, has started providing real time trading volumes to the TradeBlock...
12/20/2019 5:31:01 AM Goldman Sachs leads $15M investment in Indian fintech startup ZestMoney By Gareth Jones Bangalore-based ZestMoney announced today that it has raised $15 million from Goldman Sachs and existing investors Naspers Fintech, Quona...
12/20/2019 5:28:55 AM The Forbes Investigation: Inside the Secret Bank Behind the Fintech Boom By Gareth Jones If you want a glimpse of the future of banking, don’t look to Silicon Valley or Manhattan’s financial district. Instead, drive across the...
12/20/2019 5:25:06 AM You Might Be Buying Trash on Amazon—Literally By Gareth Jones Scenario 1 - A store throws out items in a commercial dumpster, which is searched by a dumpster diver…who cleans the items…and lists them...
12/20/2019 5:17:56 AM When is a blockchain startup not a blockchain startup? By Gareth Jones The FT's Alphaville has a dig at DAH's new business model - "It’s awkward when you set up a business around a technology that you reckon...
12/20/2019 5:14:05 AM Singapore Digital Bank Wannabes Must Prove They Can Profit By Gareth Jones Grab and gaming company Razer will need to demonstrate how their millions of users can help them generate profits if the two technology...
12/20/2019 5:10:17 AM BlackRock in Talks to Cancel Option to Take Over iCapital Network By Gareth Jones BlackRock would stay on as the financial-technology firm’s largest minority shareholder.
12/20/2019 5:07:54 AM Truecaller Branches Out to Fintech Ahead of Potential IPO By Gareth Jones This year, the Swedish company started a pilot program to provide credit to small business owners in India and will begin offering the...
12/20/2019 5:05:58 AM Fintech in Brazil Vows to Prove Goldman, Morgan Stanley Wrong By Gareth Jones When Joao Vitor Menin took over his family’s banking business, it was a mere sideline to his father’s empire of low-income housing. Four...
12/20/2019 5:02:57 AM JPMorgan Rolls Out Robots to Scrutinize Banker Travel, Expenses By Gareth Jones The bank has started using machine learning technology to process expense reports and determine whether they comply with company policies.
12/20/2019 4:59:46 AM Vodafone targets Africa’s unbanked with ambitious plans for M-Pesa By Gareth Jones Vodafone plans to transform its M-Pesa African mobile payments service into a financial platform spanning the continent as it seeks to...
12/20/2019 4:56:32 AM Venmo Glitch Opens Window on War Between Banks, Fintech Firms By Gareth Jones Fintech firms accuse banks of blocking their access to customers’ account information - At the center of the PNC-Venmo skirmish is Plaid,...