Boston based home insurtech startup raised $7.65m in seed funding led by Gradient Ventures, Google's AI focused venture fund.

India based consumer mobile wallet has raised $1bn in Series G funding at a $16bn valuation. The round was led by T. Rowe Price with...

Argentina based personal finance management app has raised a $150m Series C led by Tencent and SoftBank’s Latin America-focused...

As COO, Roady will be responsible for the growth, operations, and people functions at MoneyLion, as well as for driving alignment of the...

Singapore based compliance software for AML extended its Series A by $11.7m,  led by Viola Fintech, with participation from SIG Asia...

The FinTech Collective portfolio company is planning to securitize twice in 2020 following its inaugural transaction this week, CEO Jason...

Throughout 2019, Plaid has made a strong push to global expansion, previously entering Canada and the UK. The 3 new markets are powered...

You can already buy SF Poop Tokens on Uniswap. Creator Hart Lambur used data from San Francisco’s SF311 database to chart the 30-day...

San Francisco based investment management platform for commercial real estate raised $75m in Series C funding led by Redpoint.

San Francisco based decentralized finance lending protocol has raised $25m of Series A Capital led by A16z crypto.

New York based node infrastructure provider has raised $24.5m of Series A capital led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from...

The acquisition provides Aon with additional access to the fast-growing, $200+ billion premium digital insurance market for SMEs, as well...

India based credit decisioning and analytics company which works with over 200 banks, non-bank lenders and fintech startups has raised...

With zero commission trading ubiquitous across trading firms a few years after Robinhood, the industry has been facing pressure. A deal...

The plugin works on 30,000 merchant websites helping 17m members save more than $2bn. This is PayPal's largest acquisition to date. 

The third quarter of 2019 set the quarter record for fintech19 $100M+ rounds. Early-stage (seed/angel and Series A) deals fell to an...

San Francisco based business insurance provider for startups closed a $45m Series B led by YC's Continuity Fund. Previous investors...

Brazil based digital bank with 2m active users has raised $94m in funding led by Banco Votoantim and General Atlantic. Other investors...

Redwood City, CA based financing platform for SMBs raised $102.5m in Series F funding led by ION Crossover Partners. Other new investors...

Sage Pay is one of the bigger payment processors in the UK and Ireland serving small and medium businesses. Elavon is active in 10...

Nigeria based mobile wallet and motorbike ridesharing provider raised a $120m Series B led by Chinese investors right on the heels of a...

7th Annual Swedish Startup Gala hosted by SUP46. Other winners include:

Startup launch of the year: Hedvig Insurance

Hall of fame inductee:...

Every year, CNBC scans the globe looking for the 100 venture-backed start-ups that have the potential to transform industries and become...

Nigeria based online payments joint venture between Transsion, Africa's top phone maker, and Chinese giant, NetEase, raised $40m. 

The largest holders of personal wealth in the U.K. are above the age of 55, representing 63% of the £12 trillion personal wealth, which...

Chicago based provider of underwriting software for P&C insurers raised $15.2m in Series B funding led by Palm Drive Capital.

Durham based payments API raised $75m in growth funding led by Spectrum Equity to accelerate product development and to support the...

SoftBank-backed OneConnect Financial Technology, the fintech arm of China’s largest insurance company Ping An Insurance, filed a...

New York based revenue management and data visualization startup for mobile studios and publishers raised $4m Seed Round led by...

Google announced it will offer personal checking accounts next year through its Google Pay app, initially in partnership with...

Miami based provider of integrated receivables solutions raised $9m Series D led by Napier Park Financial Partners. The proceeds will be...

London-based startup that helps banks extract information and insights using AI and ML raised $37m Series B led by Lakestar and Dawn...

Tencent, best known for the WeChat messenger that almost everyone in China uses, has a growing fintech business making up 26% of its...

India is Truecaller’s biggest market for revenue and userbase and claims every tenth user has linked a bank account to Truecaller Pay,...

Visa is executing on its strategic global ambitions by acquiring 20% of Interswitch ahead of its expected IPO. Based in Nigeria,...

San Mateo, CA based commission-free stock trading API closes 6m Series A round led by Spark Capital. Alpaca's API allows other startups...

United Arab Emirates based 'buy now, pay later' startup raises $2m seed round led by Global Founders Capital, with participation from...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore developed a prototype network in collaboration with J.P. Morgan and Temasek. The project's main use...

Indians stockpile more gold than citizens of any other country, and their hoard is seven times the amount of gold mined globally in 2018....

For all the publicity on digital payments, most consumers still rely on good old plastic cards to transact - and someone has to make...

Chinese entrants who sensed an opportunity to disrupt Hong Kong's financial centre are stuck in testing mode after winning licences to...

The UK’s National Crime Agency received a record number of reports flagging potential money laundering, terrorist financing and other...

Thirteen former bankers from Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Nomura and Deutsche Bank were sentenced to jail on Friday in Milan.

The mobile trading app that has more than 6 million users, is contending with a glitch in its platform that enables some traders to use...

San Francisco based financial visualization startup raised a $10.5m Series A led by Benchmark.

San Francisco based extended warranties-as-a-service startup raised $16.4m led by GreatPoint Ventures. Extend also acquired assets of...

UPI is closing in on a significant milestone: one billion transactions per month. In September 2019, UPI clocked 955m transactions,...

Sydney-based insurtech for online consumers has raised $10m in a Series B round led by King River Capital. The funds will support the...

San Francisco based real estate tech company has raised a $25m Series B led by F-Prime with participation from Sequoia . Snapdocs has...

London based leading the  "electronification" of bond markets has raised £2.5m in seed capital from a group of investors including...

Square's earning report for Q3 of 2019 showed the Cash App growing and monetizing with differentiated products including the introduction...

San Francisco based insurtech startup closed a $1.5m seed round led by West Loop Venture. The company came out of the 2019 MetLife...

London based fintech company has raised £350m from Banco Santander, as Spain’s biggest bank seeks to win more business from SMEs that...

London based real estate fintech platform closed a €11m Series A funded by Talis Capital and HV Holtzbrinck Ventures. In addition, the...

New York based real estate analytics and database company closed a $60m Series D led by Georgian Partners, with participation from Wells...

Uber will be giving its 4m plus drivers around the world access to a mobile bank account so they can get paid after each ride.  With...

Los Angeles based challenger bank HMBradley raises $3.5m seed round from Accomplice Ventures, Walkabout Ventures, Mucker Capital, Index...

Montreal based saving and investing app has raised C$10 million in Series A funding led by National Bank.

New York based global payroll and payment management platform has raised $45m in Series B funding led by Insight Partners.

In this week's edition, TradeBlock covers Genesis surge in crypto backed loan originations,  Deribit's invalid liquidations, and...

Superb Forbes cover story about the trajectory of MoneyLion and its CEO founder, Dee Choubey, on its path to offer a complete, private...

SF based millennial credit card as a service startup has raised $50m in Series C  capital from Goldman Sachs.

Portfolio company Dharma is on mission to introduce DeFi to millions of users as a vehicle for stable, international savings.  Come...

In this week's crypto market report, TradeBlock touches on Chinese President embraces blockchain technology, Bakkt bitcoin futures volume...

Los Angeles based crowdfunding platform that gives investors easy access to high-yielding loans that are collateralized with real estate...

New York based homebuying platform raised $30m of Series B capital led by Greylock.

New York based company that connects investors to crypto projects raised $10 million in funding led by Polychain Capital, and joined by...

Japanese instant credit provider raised $83m in Series C extension from PayPal Ventures.

New York-based provider of non-dilutive growth capital to companies raised $5m in funding from Greycroft, Future Ventures, Wavemaker and...

The Israeli based lending marketplace for SMBs (formerly known as Lending Express) has raised $10m in Series A from Benson Oak Ventures...

UK challenger commission free stockbroker clsoed $15m in Series A funding from Draper Espirit.

Mountain View based invoice management automation company raised $25m in Series B led by SignalFire.

A recent study finds that a significant portion of Americans believe they've lived in a haunted house - and that this has a material...

SF based commission free stock trading app raised $50m in new Series E from DST to close out the round at a $7.6b valuation.

UK based supply chain financing startup has secured $655m from Softbank Vision Fund.  The latest capital injection values the...

As Amazon moves further into financial services (it already does over $1bn of lending to its e-commerce businesses), customers of billers...

In an effort to move beyond futures trading , Bakkt will be commencing its consumer app and merchant portal in mid 2020 with Starbucks -...

Apple Card users will be able to finance iPhone purchases over 24 months with 0% interest - and will still get 3% cashback on the iPhone...

Earlier this month, Robinhood announced its new savings rate of 2.05% which was the highest in the market at the time - relative to 1.90%...

The details of more than 1.3m credit and debit cards - 98% of them from India - have been put up for sale on an underground forum - with...

TrueLayer, which is responsible for about 65% of all open banking traffic in the UK, wants to leverage the Visa partnership to work with...

Fortune believes that while the US dollar still remains heavily in the lead as the world's reserve currency, China's PBOC digital...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...