Portfolio company Dharma Labs reviews MakerDao's greatest ever stress-test, with Dai spending most of March trading under its desired...

Companies, admitting they got millennials wrong, try memes, ethical stances and whispering to lure the newest spenders.

While Gen Z's name is in flux, we are beginning to learn a lot more about their habits - and they are more earnest, hardworking, and...

In the latest development in the world of “insurtech”, MoreThan has launched a partnership with PitPat the dog world’s equivalent of the...

Banks have already made major leaps in trader surveillance in the past few years but "false positives" remain an issue with one bank...

To secure the data, banks are starting to demand that apps stop logging in as customers whilst JPMorgan, and Capital One lead shift to...

Congrats to portfolio company Universal Market Access for forging a powerful alliance with MakerDAO to launch USStocks, an ERC20 token...

Following a roughly seven month long application process, the New York startup that allows institutional and HNW clients to trade...

Virginia based auto refinance startup has raised a $4.7m Series Seed led by Accomplice, with participation from QED and Motley Fool...

New York based wealth management app has raised a $9m Series A from Accel and Greycroft.

Madrid based e-commerce lender has raised $75m in Series B funding, led by Prime Ventures, SPF Investment Management, and Rinkelberg...

San Diego based cloud treasury and financial solutions company raised $160m of growth equity led by BridgePoint.  The funding round...

The FT profiles the rise of D.E. Shaw from a "ramshackle startup" with "geeky programmers trying to crack the code to financial markets"...

The lapse follows rumors that Bitmain's P&L has inverted from highly profitable to unprofitable in the back half of 2018.  The...

The House Financial Services Committee has voted to approve legislation that would improve marijuana businesses' access to banks....

Australia based enterprise platform for cross-border payments has raised a $100m Series C financing ledy by DST. The company is now...

Forbes reviews Marqeta's bumpy ride - from being at the end of its cash runway in the Spring of 2015, to partnering with winners such as...

BlackRock and RBC have joined forces to begin trading six new ETFs on the Toronto Stock Exchange.  The funds integrate...

A handful of startup trading platforms is trying to reshape the $15 trillion U.S. Treasurys market. The idea is to create exchange-like...

A global shake-up in the humdrum business of payments has set off a merger frenzy among the giant but obscure companies that connect...

A new report from Juniper Research found that the annual value of virtual cards (temporary card numbers only available for a single...

Palo Alto based home equity financing platform has raised a $22m Series B led by Prudential and DAG Ventures.  The company also...

Canadian provider of institutional grade proof of stake infrastructure services raised $1.3 million in Seed funding from investors...

San Francisco based CRM and payment platform for freelancers has raised $28m Series C led by Citi Ventures.

The speed and scale of the FIS and Worldpay, First Data and Fiserv, PayPal and iZettle, Earthport and Visa deals is creating complex...

California based payment platform has raised a $250m Series E by undisclosed investors .  The valuation on the round was $1.9bn.

A number of London based fintech CEOs received a “Dear CEO” letter this week from the Irish central bank setting out the implications for...

Fees on US equity funds fell to a new record low last year, as relentless pressure from cheaper index-tracking rivals forced asset...

The report by TheCityUK says companies are struggling to fill roles in coding, cloud computing, machine learning, cyber, artificial...

In just two weeks after launching its ETH and BTC deposit accounts with interest payment rates of 6.2% (compounded annually), the...

After identifying the problem of fragmented payments in Africa, Nigerian Entrepreneur Olugbenga Agboola started Flutterwave in 2016, a...

With the much anticipated recent launch of Cosmos blockchain for interoperability, there are now over 70 projects using PoS to some...

Ron Karpovich, Global Head of eCommerce Solutions at JPM, says it will be more partnership than competition between financial...

A three-paragraph section buried in Lyft’s nearly-800-page public offering document sums up the challenges of insuring unfamiliar risks...

It is not really fintech but..... Our very own Welshman joined members of the British royal family at Buckingham Palace last week to...

Great to see both MoneyLion and Plaid are in the running this year for an award at the Lendit Fintech Industry Awards.

New York based customer service platform for financial services has raised a $20m financing led by Insight Venture Partners/

Since its December announcement that it was launching a stable coin for its WhatsApp users (which will be pegged to various currencies...

With Bitcoin trading volume down nearly 80% since early 2018, the CBOE has decided not to add a Bitcoin (XBT) futures contract for March....

Berlin based lender Bitbond has raised more than $1m on the first day of its German regulatory approved STO, with funds going to balance...

There was a lot of chatter around Vitalik's comments about "big scary nodes" during EthCC.  The Ethereum Foundation says that data...

Click on "View the winners" to look at the 4 winners form ETH Paris.  Two of the winning projects incorporated "proof of burn."

Breedr, a U.K. startup that wants to help farmers make better use of their livestock data to improve profitability, has raised £2.2...

A spokesperson for the company said that Stash is not disclosing the full round of investors in this round. But analysis from Techcrunch...

Coinbase has announced on its blog that it has just completed its first over-the-counter (OTC) trade directly out of cold, or offline,...

Shunned by traditional advisers the FT explores where younger investors are going for their financial advice.

The FT's Alphaville digs into Moody's description of what future data sets, like education, academic scores, labour profile, job history...

Goldman plans to raise outside money for its $30b special-situations group which has been run since 2013 by Julian Salisbury, a...

The $190B Chinese insurance giant argues its heavy investment in technology differentiates it from other insurers. Because of China’s...

Goldman's $100m credit line to Credijusto, a 4yr old alternative lender in Mexico, from their special situations group in New York is the...

The latest battleground between established banks and upstart financial technology companies is over who will finance consumers’...

Buried among the deluge of news from JPMorgan Chase's investor day last week was a surprising fintech nugget. Despite's its drive to...

The FT digs into recent report that says the UK’s cash system is on “the verge of collapse” and bank branch closures are “the tip of the...

Decentralized finance, otherwise known as DeFi, sits at the intersection of financial products and services with decentralized networks...

In addition to leading our efforts in alternative lending, Sean is taking leadership on our Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sub-strategy –...

SF based HR software platform has raised $27m of incremental Series B financing led b Kleiner Perkins and Emergence Capital.

MHB provides Raisin with account management and customer identification, as well as powering transactions — services that require an...

Germany based insurance contract automation platform has raised a $125m Series B led by Mubadala.

Omidyar Network, the impact investment firm created by Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar, is spinning off its fintech investment practice into...

As soon as this spring, riders of NYC subways and buses will be able to tap a contactless bank card or mobile wallet at turnstiles....

New York based one-stop prime brokerage and execution system for institutional crypto traders has raised $12m in additional funding led...

Who said it's only competition between DeFi protocols? FinTech Collective Portfolio company, Dharma, has announced that early users or...

Boston based provider of student debt employment benefit solutions has raised $11.2m in Series A funding led by Rethink Impact.

Samantha Roady, President of Retail for GAIN Capital and a member of MoneyLion's Board of Directors, joins Cheddar to discuss MoneyLion...

Boston and Paris based AI-driven fraud detection platform for insurance carriers has raised a $60m Series C led by Bessemer.

Ebay, one of the world's biggest online marketplace, dropped PayPal as its main partner for processing payments in favor of Dutch company...

MoneyLion's "PaveTheWage" pledge of $3m will see the company adding 17% to the first paycheck deposited into a MoneyLion Checking...

SF based compliance software platform has raised $9m in Seed and Series A financing from Canaan and Greycroft.

Ping An's OneConnect provides cloud computing and other technology services to small- and medium-sized financial institutions. It’s...

SoFi Invest will now allow for buying, selling, and price monitoring of cryptocurrencies.  This is in addition to its recent...

Walmart's partnership with Affirm will allow it to offer POS loans at its nearly 4k US stores and on its website. The instant loans will...

With 19-29 year olds now saddled more than $1 trillion in debt, with the majority comprised of student loans, policymakers are struggling...

Switzerland based Pangea Blockchain Fund has announced it has raised $22m with investors that include Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver and...

Target, Costco, and other brands are increasingly embracing contactless payment methods, opening the opportunity for wearables to become...

Diar Research shows that while a majority of circulating supply (48%) that sit in public addresses that hold between 10 and 1000BTC have...

Despite crypto winter, Square's cash App has seen steady increase in bitcoin purchased (Q4 purchases up ~70 percent since Q3, and 200...

The Dept. of Labor is investigating Fidelity for fees charged to some mutual funds. The "infrastructure fee" appears to be a way for...

MercadoLibre, the leading ecommerce provider in Brazil, is quickly evolving as a payments and fintech company.  Their payments...

San Francisco based insurance core platform has raised $5.2m in incremental Series A financing from 8VC, Nationawide, and MS&AD...

New York based machine learning powered trade surveillance for digital assets has raised $3m in Seed funding from Hanaco Ventures.

New York based rental insuretech startup has raised $15m in Series B capital from Global Founders Capital.

New York based alternatives investment platform has raised a $62m Series B led by Edison Partners.

Boston based provider of crypto data to institutions has raised $1.9m in equity funding led by Castle Island Venture.

San Francisco based blockchain company led by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney raised $65m in Series B funding led by RPM Ventures and DST...