5/31/2019 9:00:38 PM Indonesia launches QR code standards By Carlos Alonso Torras The central bank has been developing QRIS (a more complex QR pattern that allows users from one payment service to transfer funds to any...
5/31/2019 8:27:20 PM In Baltimore and beyond, a stolen N.S.A. tool wreaks havoc By Sean Lippel The Shadow Brokers leak, which is now the most destructive and costly NSA breach in history, has spawned a series of malicious actor...
5/31/2019 6:16:11 PM UMA's USStocks DeFi Project - Learnings and Next Steps By Gareth Jones A great Medium post from portfolio company Universal Market Access "UMA" on what they learnt from offering synthetic access to the top...
5/31/2019 5:51:44 PM Venture capitalists bet big on the $1.9 trillion payments industry By Gareth Jones Tech firms from Stripe to our own portfolio companies Extend and Flutterwave are trying to grab a slice of the $1.9 trillion payments...
5/31/2019 4:10:12 PM Innovation driving digital acceleration in Latin America By Gareth Jones A good read out of Swift's Latam regional conference where banks in the region are looking to increase digitization, while managing cyber...
5/31/2019 1:43:29 PM First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records By Gareth Jones First American, a leading provider of title insurance, put 885 million PDFs including bank account numbers, statements, mortgage and tax...
5/31/2019 2:54:22 AM Cryptocurrency Visa card could open a back door for dirty money By Gareth Jones Visa’s latest co-operation with Coinbase for a UK crypto card will allow customers to “spend funds from your cryptocurrency wallets”...
5/31/2019 1:57:11 AM Morningstar takes aim at rating giants with $669m DBRS deal By Gareth Jones Morningstar accounts for just 0.1% of the credit-rating market. This will rise to 2.4% once the DBRS deal closes. By contrast, the big...
5/31/2019 1:48:00 AM First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records By Gareth Jones First American, a leading provider of title insurance, put 885 million PDFs including bank account numbers, statements, mortgage and tax...
5/31/2019 1:38:08 AM How governments are beginning to regulate AI By Gareth Jones In a historic step last week, 42 countries came together to support a global governance framework for one of the most powerful emerging...
5/31/2019 1:34:25 AM Bitcoin Billionaires — return of the Winklevoss twins By Gareth Jones Ben Mezrich’s "Bitcoin Billionaires" is a new account of the Winklevii's move into crypto. According to the FT it makes an easily...
5/31/2019 12:00:00 AM Creighton University Paves Way by Creating Fintech Degree By Carlos Alonso Torras Approximately half of the curriculum will be comprised of innovative classes focused on Python programming, machine learning, blockchain...
5/31/2019 12:00:00 AM Pillar raises $5.5 million By Carlos Alonso Torras New York based student lending startup raised a $5.5m Series Seed led by Kleiner Perkins.
5/30/2019 12:00:00 AM ChargeAfter raises $8M By Carlos Alonso Torras Tel Aviv-based credit network for retailers raised $8M in Series A funding led by Propel Venture Partners, with participation from Pico...
5/30/2019 12:00:00 AM SoFi raises $500M By Carlos Alonso Torras San Francisco based lending and personal finance platform has raised $500M in equity funding. The round is led by the Qatar Investment...
5/30/2019 12:00:00 AM Brex to raise Series D at valuation above $2 billion By Carlos Alonso Torras The San Francisco based provider of corporate credit cards to tech companies, startups (and their employees) is still agreeing to the...