6/28/2019 10:59:26 PM Cryptocurrencies, in some form or another, are probably here to stay By FinTech Collective Bitcoin has been bouncing back, after having spent much of 2018 below $4,000. There are many different theories as to why this is the...
6/28/2019 10:24:48 PM Wunder and Fundamental team up to deploy $200m By FinTech Collective Portfolio company Wunder Capital has entered into a $200m loan purchase agreement with Fundamental Advisors, which will be used to...
6/28/2019 8:47:06 PM Tether, not Libra, may be the cryptocurrency behind bitcoin’s surge By Gareth Jones According to Quartz, Bitcoin’s recent rise appears to coincide with the creation of new Tether tokens. Some crypto analysts suspect...
6/28/2019 8:45:26 PM Facebook's WhatsApp hires senior exec from London remittances startup: sources By Gareth Jones WorldRemit’s chief product officer, Alice Newton-Rex, will join WhatsApp’s product team later this year to work on the app’s messaging...
6/28/2019 7:29:12 PM India offers test case for future of mobile money By Gareth Jones In India Google Pay, PhonePe (Flipkart), and Paytm are the biggest participants in the Indian payments space. But unlike China, where...
6/28/2019 7:26:09 PM Grab raises $300m from Invesco to move beyond ride-hailing By Gareth Jones Grab, the south-east Asian ride hailing app, has raised a further $300m from Invesco to help Grab develop its financial services arm. The...
6/28/2019 7:11:30 PM Robots Can Now Decode the Cryptic Language of Central Bankers By Gareth Jones Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said in 1987 that he’d “learned to mumble with great incoherence.”. Machines are now analyzing these...
6/28/2019 5:14:54 PM Where are all of the FinTech IPOs? By FinTech Collective 2019 has been a popular year for Venture-backed tech IPOs, with many much-awaited "unicorns" going public, but this hasn't been the case...
6/28/2019 5:13:56 PM Blend raises $130 million By Carlos Alonso Torras San Francisco based digital lending platform has raised $130m in Series E funding, co-led by Temasek and General Atlantic.
6/28/2019 5:13:49 PM Monzo raises £113 million By FinTech Collective United Kingdom based digital, mobile-only "challenger bank" raised £113m in Series F funding, led by Y Combinator's Continuity Fund.
6/28/2019 5:13:23 PM KoinWorks raises $12 million By Carlos Alonso Torras Indonesia based startup that helps SMEs secure financial services through its online P2P platform, has raised $12m in Series B funding,...
6/28/2019 5:12:54 PM MX raises $100 million By FinTech Collective Utah based provider of data services for banks, credit unions, and fintechs raised $100m in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures.
6/28/2019 5:12:47 PM Octane Lending raises non-dilutive growth debt facility from Upper90 By Carlos Alonso Torras Portfolio company Octane Lending - a leading technology marketplace that empowers consumers to efficiently access powersports vehicles -...
6/28/2019 5:12:41 PM oneZero Financial Systems receives minority investment By FinTech Collective Cambridge, MA based provider of software and technology solutions to the foreign exchange trading industry received a minority investment...
6/28/2019 5:12:21 PM MainVest raises $3 million By FinTech Collective Salem, MA based provider of an investment marketplace empowering local businesses to access capital from investors in their community...
6/28/2019 4:57:43 PM CarIQ raises $5 million By FinTech Collective San Francisco based provider of software that will enable vehicles to autonomously connect to a bank’s payment network, validate, and pay...