Users are trusting record amounts of value in decentralized finance platforms. According to DeFi Pulse, there’s now a record 2.4...

After China's President Xi stated that he wants the country to take a leading position in the development of blockchain technology,...

San Francisco based personal financial management app has raised a $15m Series B led by Eldridge Industries.

New York based open source time series analytics platform raised a $24m Series A led by Lightspeed.

After rejecting Bitwise's Bitcoin ETF, the latest in a series of attempts, the SEC has clarified that a bitcoin ETF is unlikely to be...

Canadian based fintech and AI VC firm has raised $85m for its debut fund to make seed investments as small as $150k and up to $2m. 

Under 25s are opening multiple bank accounts and leaving old ones open, a habit not found in older generations.  The trend may be...

Square's cash app is joining the herd and coming after Robinhood with zero-fee trading.  The service will also offer fractional...

Ping An Insurance wants to be valued more like a technology company. Its executives have yet to convince investors their planned $22...

The Pengana Australian Equities Fund, uses the FBI’s interview techniques to get under the skin of CEOs, seeking to catch them in lies,...

Campaign magazine recognized portfolio company Anyfin's recent marketing push, taking name-based puns to the next level with a series of...

The insurance industry is one of the first to feel the force of this convergence of data and technology. An example is the advisory firm...

Jack Goodhue says his much-maligned mullet is staying, no matter how many times his All Blacks team mates, coaches or the media tell him...

Although IBM has questioned Google’s results, many researchers say they appear to represent a scientific milestone termed quantum...

Google says its quantum computer has achieved "quantum supremacy" for the first time, surpassing the performance of conventional devices....

San Francisco based tooling platform for deep learning, machine learning, and graph process has raised a $400m Series F led by Andreessen...

San Francisco based data privacy platform raised a $35m Series B led by Goldman Sachs.

Active mutual funds are slowly bleeding out to ETFs and index funds. CNBC argues that an economic recession might be needed to revive...

New York based short-term apartment rental startup has raised $50m in Series B funding co-led by WestCap and Prime Ventures.

OK so it's not 30 days a week that Ripple is signing with banks as The Information first reported - but The Block confirms that company...

It is estimated that approximately 60% of the mining power for Bitcoin comes from overseas - the recent $50m investment by Thiel's in...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse blasted Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency this week and boasted of owning roughly $15b of crypto...

Fidelity is ramping up its cryptocurrency custody business, hoping to profit from the scarcity of big, regulated institutions in the...

Cosmopolitan preview the new BBC investigative podcast on Dr. Ruja Ignatova, the self proclaimed Oxford educated "cryptoqueen", the woman...

Jen McAdam, from Glasgow, has received death threats after speaking out about an international cryptocurrency "scam" called OneCoin that...

Facebook has been denied its request to halt a $35b class action lawsuit regarding alleged misuse of facial recognition data.  The...

Crypto-research firm, The Block, breaks down the drama behind the Telegram ICO that culminated in the SEC sueing to stop Telegram, Inc....

A little known sub-Reddit dedicated to educating novice traders around options has produced an individual who turned less than $1k into...

Aaron Schumm, CEO of portfolio company Vestwell, joins this months Winners of WealthTech podcast to discuss how his startup idea...

New York-based digital business banking platform raised $4.9m of Series Seed financing led by Inspired Capital. Companies can apply for a...

After slashing commissions, Schwab's bid to compete for the millennial investor has invsted with fractional shares.  The feature...

Salt Lake City based fintech infrastructure provider has raised a $77m Series A led by Accel.

Palo Alto based small business insurance provider has raised a $250m Series C led by Munich Re, valuing the startup at more than $1b.

The cards will offer full corporate liability without requiring founders to provide a security deposit or personal guarantee. New...

SF based health savings account (HSA) startup has raised a $27m Series B led by Costanoa Ventures.

One of the biggest hurdles for onboarding new users into DeFi has been the onramping time for KYC (know-your-customer) - Wyre V2 is...

The long anticipated wait for the launch of the next version of the most popular DeFi protocol, MakerDAO, has been set - it will allow...

The San Francisco based fund led by David Sacks, former co-founder and COO of PayPal, has closed its second venture found with $500m in...

Manila based HR and payroll startup has raised a $6m Series A led by Point72 Ventures.

Who says the financial incumbents are struggling?!  JPM posted a strong Q3, surpassing wall street expectations across nearly all...

India based neo-bank built on top of Ethereum protocols has secured $3m of Series Seed capital from Polychain, Sequoia, Dragofly, and...

CFTC chair Heath Tarbert believes ETH, like Bitcoin, falls under the oversight of the CFTC as not a security.  As a result, he...

In the wake of the regulatory backlash and as follow up to PayPal's exit last week, a new set of payment incumbents and startups have...

Zero fee stock trading app Robinhood is launching Cash Management, a new feature that earns users 2.05% APR interest on uninvested money...

With half of US customers wanting to use installment loans for purchases under $250, the POS financing company wants customers to start...

Barclays has been slammed by regulators and consumer groups for opting out of a deal that lets customers withdraw cash at UK Post Offices...

Citi hopes to grow its consumer banking customer base in the region by 2m cardholders over the next few years and is using the...

Shanghai based d provider of cross-border financial services for enterprises raised $15 million in Series B-1 funding led by eWTP fund.

Bloomberg reports that the digital first bank with more than 5m customers is close to closing a round with DST Global at a valuation...

New York-based startup that automates insurance compliance for property managers raised $4.6 million in Series Seed funding led by Hetz...

Emmanuel Goh, CEO of London-based firm skew., a startup specializing in analytical tools for the crypto industry, has successfully used...

Fears around cost and complexity often deter small businesses from offering a 401(k). But offering a plan is easier and more economical...

This month's Winners of Wealthech features Vestwell Founder & CEO, Aaron Schumm, discussing how he got to where he is today including...

With Charlie Scharff taking on the CEO job at Wells Fargo, former JPMorgan executives now lead banks with assets totaling $4.7tn - $7.4tn...

It comes by way of mobile bank MoneyLion’s “HERE WE ROAR” sweepstakes and it’s one of three custom-tuned Mustangs that can be won through...

Matt Miller, founder and CEO of Embroker, chats with John Siracusa about his journey from inception in starting a digital commercial...

TradeBlock research covers Bakkt's tepid market open for physically settled Bitcoin futures,  the launch of Binance's staking...

Brooklyn based investment research platform has raised $10.6m Series A funding led by General Catalyst.

New York based provider of distributed spend software has raised  $12m Series A  led by Tribe Capital. 

The San Francisco based personal finance and savings app has raised $27.5m in a Series C funding led by General Catalyst, with...

New York-based commercial real estate securities marketplace available to retail investors raised $4 million in Series Seed funding form...

North Carolina based cloud-based operating system for financial institutions has raised $80m in a funding round led by T Rowe Price, with...

India-based expense management platform raised $4.5 million in funding with participation from Steadview Capital, Tiger Global,...

San Francisco-based bank for startups raised $20m in Series A funding led by Charles River Ventures with participation from A16z....

The FT explores the innovation theatre and inherent conflict of banks replicating each other (in the way only non-innovative institutions...

This latest round is being led by Oak HC/FT  with participation from Tiger Global, Coatue, General Catalyst, Target Global, Stripe...

Shares of the biggest online brokerages plummeted this week after market leader Charles Schwab announced plans to eliminate commissions...

Visa, Mastercard and other financial partners that signed on to help build and maintain the Libra payments network are reconsidering...

The FT explores how machine learning will implement quant analysis to find the right stocks.

Discount brokers are losing revenue from commission-free trading. The predictable result is that custodians, and even some mutual fund...

Vanguard is testing a new blockchain based platform that will allow it and other asset managers to trade currencies and avoid the big...

San Fransisco based blockchain scalability platform has raised $17.1m in capital led by prominent crypto investors including Arrington...

India based smart contract DeFi wallet has raised $2.4m in Series Seed capital from Pantera, Coinbase Ventures, Robot Venture, and...

The company behind EOS paid just over $24m to the SEC on a token sale that raised $4b.  But will the small beans settlement bring...

Portfolio company Ocrolus reviews how start-ups have led the back-end digitization of lending, and explores whether the incumbents will...

The move is a sign the digital asset industry is maturity and breaks a long standoff between over 40 aspiring crypto broker-dealers and...

Interesting thought piece in the Institutional Investor that highlights while the price of crypto assets has bounced around,...

London based crypto derivatives startup has raised $2m Series Seed from Kleiner Perkins with participation from Seedcamp, First Minute...

Los angeles based consumer lending and overdraft protection startup has raised a $50m Series B from Norwest at a $1b valaution.

London based fintech infrastructure platform has raised a $100m Series C led by Oak HC / FT.  The company's valuation is...