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...

Portfolio company Wunder Capital has entered into a $200m loan purchase agreement with Fundamental Advisors, which will be used to...

According to Quartz, Bitcoin’s recent rise appears to coincide with the creation of new Tether tokens. Some crypto analysts suspect...

WorldRemit’s chief product officer, Alice Newton-Rex, will join WhatsApp’s product team later this year to work on the app’s messaging...

In India Google Pay, PhonePe (Flipkart), and Paytm are the biggest participants in the Indian payments space. But unlike China, where...

Grab, the south-east Asian ride hailing app, has raised a further $300m from Invesco to help Grab develop its financial services arm. The...

Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan said in 1987 that he’d “learned to mumble with great incoherence.”. Machines are now analyzing these...

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...

San Francisco based digital lending platform has raised $130m in Series E funding, co-led by Temasek and General Atlantic.

United Kingdom based digital, mobile-only "challenger bank" raised £113m in Series F funding, led by Y Combinator's Continuity Fund.

Indonesia based startup that helps SMEs secure financial services through its online P2P platform, has raised $12m in Series B funding,...

Utah based provider of data services for banks, credit unions, and fintechs raised $100m in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures.

Portfolio company Octane Lending - a leading technology marketplace that empowers consumers to efficiently access powersports vehicles -...

Cambridge, MA based provider of software and technology solutions to the foreign exchange trading industry received a minority investment...

Salem, MA based provider of an investment marketplace empowering local businesses to access capital from investors in their community...

San Francisco based provider of software that will enable vehicles to autonomously connect to a bank’s payment network, validate, and pay...

Its most recent venture round is just the latest in what has proven to be an exceptionally lucrative year for European fintech startups,...

Anyfin was noted by Pitchbook to be one of the most innovative fintech companies founded in the Nordics, in an article highlighting the...

Extend is featured as part of Benzinga's "Fintech Focus Rewind," which looks into the company's development, how the product works, and...

Artivest announced that Karl Jaeger will become the company's new CFO. Karl has over 25 years in the fintech industry, with a particular...

United Kingdom based provider of e-gift card and digital reward issuance software raised £4m in Series A funding led by Stride.VC.

Amsterdam based provider of prepaid credit that can be digitally bought or sold raised €22m in funding from Prime Ventures.

New fintech companies are transforming Japan's lending sector. AI and other new technologies have eased the loan process, which has made...

Ocrolus, the only automation platform that can analyze financial documents with over 99% accuracy, raised $24m led by Oak HC/FT and...

A number of incumbent banks are known to be developing new digital-first products in a bid to keep the new wave of challenger banks at...

France based payroll and human resource management startup has raised $79m in additional funding, led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance. 

South Korea based peer-to-peer lending startup has raised $35m as an extension to its series B financing round, led by Lending Ark Asia...

Portfolio company Quovo made headlines this week, as Plaid (who acquired Quovo earlier this year) announces Investments, which an API...

Cromwell, Connecticut based provider of digital money movement technology to financial institutions has raised $7m in Series D funding,...

Last year, ESG funds attracted record net flows attracting nearly $5.5 billion in net new money, to $161 billion. Interest is strongest...

People with assets of $250,000 to $1 million are set to become a new battleground for the world’s financial firms as declining margins...

The Pew Research Center just published a terrific interactive map of worldwide remittance flows - an estimated USD$625 billion was sent...

San Francisco-based startup seeking to automate the financial services of consumers at low cost has raised $50m in Series C funding, led...

“There are two kinds of incumbent banks: There are banks that are screwed, and there are banks that don’t know they’re screwed,” said...

Congress members including Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California), who chairs the House Financial Services Committee,  called for the...

After nearly a year of speculation, Facebook has finally unveiled its plans to create a cryptocurrency, which will be called Libra and...

The Nevada state treasurer’s office will “set up a three-year pilot program” to ease some of the burden for businesses who have to pay...

Ripple, the startup behind the XRP cryptocurrency, has agreed to invest up to $50m in MoneyGram, the giant money-transfer service.

London based insuretech startup has raised $42m in Series B funding, led by Target Global.

Insurance, an emerging topic in the self-driving car industry was discussed at length at the Information's AV Summit. When there is a...

Monzo's CEO and Founder Tom Blomfield thinks "the US financial system is a decade behind Europe." pointing out that "It’s very hard to...

Equifax, a global data, analytics and technology company, will offer commercial and consumer data that will help FinTech Sandbox to...

Portfolio company Extend Enterprises was featured at FORTUNE's Brainstorm Finance Conference Thursday in Montauk, NY, as Co-Founder, COO,...

UnitedHealth Group agreed to buy health-care payments firm Equian from New Mountain Capital for about $3.2 billion. Equian provides...

Portfolio company Reonomy announced a partnership with CoreLogic, a provider of residential and commercial property data, to become...

Singapore based blockchain platform raised over $60m in a token sale conducted on CoinList. The Algorand Foundation is the first...

Portfolio company MoneyLion is featured on Benziga as an online bank that can help improve consumers' credit scores.  Not only are...

Not long after raising a $250m Series C round that valued the builder of financial infrastructure at $2.65b, its Co-Founder, CTO, and...

Ron Suber, the former head of Prosper, who also build and sold Merlin, was recently a guest on a "Rebank" podcast "The Golden Age of...

San Francisco and London based provider of open-banking data aggregation and payment execution has raised $16.5m in funding, led by Opera...

The WSJ reported this week that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Uber are among firms that will invest around $10 million each in consortium...

Members of the “Ring" aka the London Metal Exchange, one of the last bastions of face-to-face trading, are having to give up their vice...

The operator of Japan’s most popular messaging platform, facing a stagnant user base and a business model that relies on advertising, is...

Making loans to the small businesses selling through its website seemed like a straightforward win for Amazon. However 8yrs after it...

Amsterdam based text and news analytics platform has raised $3.5m of Series A funding, led by Velocity Capital. 

San Francisco-based provider of financial tech solutions to the banking industry has raised $33m in Series B funding, led by Andreessen...

Dublin based provider of payroll and employment tax software has raised €25m in strategic funding, led by Scottish Equity Partners.

The company is rumored to be looking to branch out into the fintech industry, which would presumably include a hiring push in New York...

MoneyLion, which is America's most powerful financial membership, and Team Penske drivers Austin Cindric and Ryan Blaney have teamed up...

Plano, TX based provider of digital banking solutions has raised $55m in Series E funding, led by General Atlantic and MissionOG.

San Francisco based provider of payment processing with customer engagement tools has raised $40m in funding, led by Franklin Templeton.

The valuation comes after news that the company has raised $100m in fresh funding, in a round led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund....

Bogotá based provider of POS credit and banking solutions has raised $12.6m in Series A funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. 

Raleigh based AI company delivering augmented intelligence for the enterprise has raised $20m in Series A financing, led by Revolution's...

London based funding and trading platform for private companies has raised $4.5m in Series A funding, led by U.K.-based Accelerated...

Portfolio company Artivest has developed a partnership with EJF Capital, a global alternative asset management firm with $7.3 billion in...

Following in the footsteps of Bitfinex and BitMex, the 15% of traffic to Binance currently originating from the U.S. will be shut down by...

Amsterdam based trading app that wants to make investing fun has raised an additional $12.5m in funding, led by Velocity Capital and...

Los Angeles based point-of-sale lender has raised $26m in Series B funding, led by Zeev Ventures. 

San Francisco based developer of a P2P wireless network has raised $15m in Series C funding, co-led by Union Square Ventures and...

New York based on-demand insurance provider has raised $12.5m in Series B funding, led by W.R. Berkley Corp.

Monzo hopes to crack a tough market where customers favour traditional lenders. They will not be alone! N26, the German online-only bank...

More than any previous generation, millennials are likely to invest in companies that mesh with their social and political concerns -...

As the WSJ reports - ‘Insuretech’ companies have found it makes more sense to collaborate with old-line insurers, rather than replace them.

Portfolio company Axoni joins FINOS (the Fintech Open Source Foundation), alongside RBC, Wipro, and WhiteSource. FINOS is a nonprofit...

Portfolio company Axoni was featured in an in-depth study on the current state of blockchain in the retail banking market, alongside...

Uber is allegedly planning to expand into financial products with a fintech outpost based in NYC.  The company is looking to hire...

The e-commerce giant has partnered up with the publicly traded Synchrony Financial to launch “Amazon Credit Builder” — a program that...

London based money transfer startup has raised $175m of Series D funding at $900m+ valuation, led by TCV, Accel and Leapfrog Investments.

The ten most valuable fintech companies in the world are mostly 6-10 years old, with hundreds of millions raised, and multibillion-dollar...

Heidelberg based insuretech startup targeting millennials has raised $17m (€15m) in Series A funding, led by Earlybird. 

London based open-banking platform has raised $35m of funding, led by Tencent and Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek. 

New York based online lending platform has raised $52m of Series B funding, led by WestBridge Capital. 

The SEC has filed a lawsuit accusing the social media startup of conducting an illegal securities offering, in the latest step in the...

Portfolio company Flutterwave was granted its South African Reserve Bank license to operate in the country in April, and is set to launch...

Portfolio company MoneyLion was featured as "one of three of our favorites" in an article featuring attractive low-cost banking options...

London-based provider of digital payment solutions for airlines has raised £11m of additional funding from Toscafund Asset Management...

Seattle based subprime consumer lending startup has raised $10.5 million in venture funding, led by Canvas Ventures.

Chicago based platform that provides structured note investments has raised $12m in Series B funding, led by Allianz Life Ventures.

San Francisco-based developer of APIs for financial services has raised $33m in Series B funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

San Jose based trade finance startup has raised $5.5m in Series A funding, co-led by Barclays and Bold Capital Partners.

In order to eliminate “tablet farm” scenarios in restaurants, Square has announced a host of new integrations to help centralize their...

COO and Sigma co-founder, Gabrielle Haddad, recounts her early professional story, letting go of what her career was "supposed to be",...

FinTech Collective special advisor Danny Lopez has been appointed CEO of cybersecurity company Glasswall Solutions. Based in London,...

Chase, the USA's largest bank began is shutting down Finn, the no-fee banking brand designed to meet the financial needs of younger...

New York-based Grasshopper has raised more than $100m from a group of investors to challenge Silicon Valley Bank as a go-to financier for...

3 top executives from SoFi are leaving the firm in the coming weeks, adding to the challenges the company faces as it moves through a...

As reported by the WSJ Square has been sending receipts to the wrong people revealing surprise gifts to pending divorces.

Stripe has led a $22.5 million Series A funding round for Step, a teenager-focused US mobile banking startup the same week that JPMorgan...

Portfolio company Flutterwave is expanding into South Africa, its fifth market on the continent. Launched in 2016, Flutterwave builds...

In 2017, UK banks made more than £2.4bn from overdrafts - with 30% alone coming from "unarranged" overdrafts. The UK financial regulator...

Last week the “foundation” behind Kik, the company that raised $100m in an ICO in 2017 for the “Kin” token, set up a new website:...

The FT reports that Blyth Masters grand plan to apply blockchain technology to the world of securities and trade settlement appears to be...

Stockholm based open banking platform has raised $11.2m from PayPal.

Portfolio company Sigma has expanded into asset management, providing Gateway Partners with an 'A' rating with a positive outlook....