9/30/2019 4:57:52 PM Cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase to rate digital assets By Sean Lippel The association administering the ratings includes exchange operators Coinbase, Kraken, Circle, and Bittrex - the scale will be 1 to 5,...
9/27/2019 9:41:18 PM UK police just sold criminally-seized Bitcoin for above market rates By Gareth Jones UK police raised £300,000 ($369,000) through the auction of criminally-seized Bitcoin this week, achieving over market value. The seized...
9/27/2019 9:29:50 PM Apple Wallet is a platform hiding in plain sight By Gareth Jones The Apple Wallet on the iPhone lets you sign up for and generate a virtual transit card (in Japan) without any third party app.
9/27/2019 9:25:13 PM France and Germany have said they will oppose Facebook’s digital currency By Gareth Jones France and Germany have formed a united front against Libra, Facebook’s proposed digital currency. In a joint statement issued late last...
9/27/2019 9:12:14 PM Southeast Asia’s No. 1 Travel App Is Getting Into Fintech By Gareth Jones Traveloka, Southeast Asia’s largest online travel startup, will issue a credit card with Indonesia’s PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia linked to...
9/27/2019 9:07:57 PM China’s shadow banking industry roars back By Gareth Jones China’s $8.4tn shadow banking industry has surged back to life this year, as regulators scale back deleveraging in an effort to spur...
9/27/2019 9:06:34 PM SoftBank executives baulk at big loans to invest in Vision Fund By Gareth Jones As a test of loyalty to founder Masayoshi Son, some SoftBank executives have been encouraged to fund stakes in Vision Fund II by...
9/27/2019 9:02:07 PM No Banking Charter? No Problem. Fintechs Team Up With Small-Town Banks By Gareth Jones Customers of Square, might assume that the cash they send to friends on the platform is housed in a glassy building in Silicon Valley,...
9/27/2019 8:59:59 PM The $100 Trillion Opportunity: The Race To Provide Banking To The World’s Poor By Gareth Jones A great profile in Forbes of Tala, a west coast start-up, focused on delivering rudimentary financial services to the 1.7 billion people...
9/27/2019 8:55:13 PM StepStone Launches Private Wealth Solutions Group By Gareth Jones StepStone, a global private markets specialist, has launched Conversus, a new platform focused on delivering StepStone's institutional...
9/27/2019 8:53:46 PM DeadHappy, the UK pay-as-you-go life insurance provider, raises £4M Series A By Gareth Jones DeadHappy, a U.K.-based insurtech startup that wants to remove the taboo surrounding death, has raised £4 million in Series A from...
9/27/2019 4:36:38 PM Credit Suisse accused of spying on star banker Iqbal Khan By Sean Lippel Swiss prosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry after Iqbal Kahn, the former head of Credit Suisse international wealth management,...
9/27/2019 2:02:50 PM Fundbox raises $176m By FinTech Collective San Francisco based B2B payments platform has raised $176m in Series C financing led by a consortium included Allianz X, Healtchare of...
9/27/2019 1:50:47 PM Drumroll… Finovate Awards Winners Announced By FinTech Collective Congratulations to portfolio company MoneyLion for winning this year's Finovate award for Best Digital Bank.
9/27/2019 1:48:12 PM Summer wants to vanquish student loans By FinTech Collective New York based student loan advisory startup Summer has raised a $10m Series A led by QED.
9/27/2019 1:45:08 PM Bold Penguin Closes $32M Series B Funding By FinTech Collective Ohio based commercial insurance technology provider completed a $32m Series B from Hudson Structured Capital, Lightstone, Guggenheim,...