NYC Fintech Women, in partnership with portfolio company MoneyLion and STASH, invite you to Investing in Times of Crisis: How to Keep...

#HalfMyDAF challenge emerges to speed funds into charities in need. The push comes as California lawmakers seek to jump-start efforts to...

DAFs have grown substantially in philanthropic importance over the last 15 years. Giving is currently up among the organizations...

MPs from across the House of Commons have called on the Chancellor to protect the UK cash infrastructure from imminent collapse, as...

Oregon based e-commerce payments fraud protection raised $125m in venture funding led by Goldfinch Partners.

California based employee tax and benefits platform raised $2.4m in Seed funding led by Gradient Ventures.

Singapore consumer comparison site for financial products raised $17m from Walvis Participaties and Aegon N.V.

San Francisco based cybersecurity insurance startup raised $90m in Series C funding led by Valor Equity Partners at a pre-money valuation...

London based digital banking technology provider for banks raised €8.5m led by Groupe BPCE.

Mexico City and Barcelona based financial infrastructure API platform raised $10m in Seed financing led by Founders Fund and Kaszek...

Congrats to portfolio company Centrifuge in reaching a huge milestone in publicly launching Tin Lake & the Centrifuge Chain to help...

Washington, D.C. based workers’ comp insurance for SMEs raised $127m in a Series B extension led by Gallatin Point Capital.

Los Angeles based marketplace for fintech apps raised $12.6m in Series B funding led by Octopus Ventures.

Germany based platform for managing corporate payments and cash flow raised $20m in a Series D extension led by Aquiline Technology Growth.

Brazil and Mexico based alternative SME lender raised $5m in Series A financing led by Santander InnoVentures.

San Francisco based B2B credit network raised $20m in a Series C extension led by MUFG Innovation Partners.

Boston based student loans platform for volume discounts raised $2.5m in Seed funding led by NFX.

U.K. based challenger bank raised £40m in a venture round led by JTC and Merian Global Investors.

The DAF assets have a market value of $1.3b and has dispersed $85m since April 2, 2020 to a variety of COVID-19 relief causes according...

European financial institutions are spending between €50-100m on Open banking initiatives, with spend exceeding €100m for 45% of the 290...

Barcelona and Mexico based open banking API platform raised $10m in a Seed round co-led by Founders Fund and Kaszek.

Beijing will come out of the coronavirus crisis with a big first-mover advantage in its official digital currency. It isn’t a coincidence...

One by one, Goldman laid out rebuttals against many of the merits frequently cited by crypto evangelists that aim to hold up the...

Payment card issuing startup Marqeta has raised $150 million from an unnamed U.S. institutional investor, doubling its valuation to $4.3...

The industry is already planning for the next crisis — and the threat of a second wave means it might be only months away!

Goldman Sachs has pushed back this year’s planned launch of a digital wealth management platform and is slowing its hiring of advisers....

Fraudsters are increasingly using pilfered credit-card numbers and phishing attacks to prey on overwhelmed consumers and banks during the...

When UK regulators suspended pre-emption rules so struggling businesses could rapidly issue shares retail shareholders complained about...

David Snitkof of portfolio company Ocrolus shares perspectives on our current time, when credit data has gone from highly valuable to...

The FT digs into the effects that are being felt through the banking system. ATM transaction volumes fell as much as 62% year on year at...

Japan’s 5 leading online brokerages have told the FT that, between them, they clocked well over half a million new account openings in...

Britain refuses to name recipients, and how much they’re getting, while a fight over disclosure is under way across the Atlantic.

Dan Schulman, PayPal's President, says that the increase in digital payments could allow PayPal to acquire 15-20m new customers during...

As one of the world’s most rapidly developing geographies, the opportunity for Stripe to truly improve the payments experience for Latin...

Former portfolio company Artivest's technology will combine well with iCapital's reach. The combined platform will service $55b in assets...

According to PitchBook a venture investor is more likely to write a check without an in-person meeting if at least one other investor in...

Being at the back end of a network of independent investment advisers is an increasingly attractive way to gain scale. Even when people...

The head of currency trading at an investment bank in New York said “We used to think of working from home as spending time with the dog!...

Tom Blomfield is stepping down as UK chief executive of Monzo, the digital bank he co-founded 5yrs ago, as the popular start-up battles...

While it may seem that tech and healthcare names are outperforming all the other stocks, as news of a vaccine come to light small-caps...

The Canadian e-commerce giant launched two finance products today: a merchant debit card and payment installment plans for customers....

BlackRock is rolling out new updates to its flagship Aladdin platform (A.K.A Asset Liability and Debt and Derivative Investment Network)...

After a strong April, the total value of the crypto market comes to $265b. Crypto hedge fund returns are at 13.4% this year - compared to...

The index committee is comprised of 10 members who are full-time employees of S&P Global, their identities other than 2 directors are...

San Francisco based cybersecurity insurance startup raised $90m in Series C funding led by Valor Equity Partners at a $800m pre-money...

Kansas based SelectQuote raised $360m at a $3.25b valuation at IPO. The company said the virus outbreak is accelerating the digitization...

Los Angeles based ESG challenger bank raised $135m in Series C funding led by Alpha Edison.

San Francisco based digital mortgage platform raised $123m in a Series C round of funding led by Greenspring Associates.

New York based digital real estate closing and communications platform raised $29m in growth capital led by Scale Venture Partners.

San Francisco based 401(k) provider for SMBs raised $10m in a Series C extension led by Glynn Capital.

Portfolio company Flutterwave is launching an e-commerce platform for African companies (akin to Shopify), with digital payments and...

‘Symbolic moment’ coincides with debate on whether Bank of England should move to negative rates.

People over 50 were PayPal’s fastest-growing segment from March to April. Venmo particularly stands to benefit from the new audience.

Given the worldwide growth of cash skepticism, the payments company is rolling out a new QR code feature for its mobile app in 28...

More than 30 firms may be removed from the S&P 500, according to DataTrek. Recently removed companies have drastically underperformed.

Plaid Exchange gives financial institutions, from banks to wealth management firms, an open finance platform to manage consumer data...

China based machine intelligence for financial services raised $6.2m in Series A funding co-led by ByteDance and Rocket Internet.

India based digital bookkeeping and payments startup raised $60m in Series B funding led by B Capital. 

Kenya based agriculture financing platform raised $6m in Series A funding led by Anthemis. 

San Francisco based credit card for startups raised $150m in a Series C extension led by DST Global and Lone Pine Capital.

This 8-week forgiveness period is what Congress is currently looking at expanding. The CARES Act was bipartisan, which means both sides...

The announcement further illustrates the growing appeal of Jio Platforms, which has raised $8.85b in the past month by selling about...

Among other passages, Bolsonaro vetoed the possibility of using fintechs in the payment of R$ 600 emergency aid. The veto can still be...

The initiative aims to foster entrepreneurship and the development of the Brazilian capital market through the creation of an...

Eva Arevuo from portfolio company Underline stresses the need to prioritize critical public needs while we design new solutions for...

The new chief operating officer at the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), previously the Chief Legal Officer of...

We are very pleased to share that portfolio company Artivest is being acquired by iCapital Network. Together, iCapital and Artivest will...

Huge congrats to portfolio company Anyfin on their $30m Series-B round from growth investor, EQT Ventures, to fuel their mission to bring...

Carta is planning to launch a private share trading platform that it hopes will be a credible alternative to leading stock exchanges. The...

GTS, along with Paul Tudor Jones, announced they are launching ClearList. A key difference between ClearList and its rivals is that GTS...

Folio would be the second wealth management company GS has acquired in two years, following United Capital in 2019. Folio has $11b in...

Minka is bringing real-time payment infrastructure to Latin America using distributed ledger technology.  We’ve been continually...

SharesPost and Forge Global have facilitated more than 10,000 client transactions worth more than $6b in shares of more than 320 private...

PNC’s decision to cash out roughly $14 billion in BlackRock Inc. shares will position the Pittsburgh-based bank to be a much more...

Singapore's Temasek, one of the world’s biggest institutional investors, has thrown its support behind the Facebook-led digital currency...

Brit announced plans to launch Ki, a standalone business and the first fully digital and algorithmically-driven Lloyd’s of London...

Before the coronavirus outbreak, Brex had raised $615 million in equity and debt funding. Brex has about $300 million on its balance...

The number of banks paying Ant to help them build mobile apps and provide cloud computing power jumped by 175% in the two months through...

South Korea’s largest fintech startup Toss, is planning to raise about $200 million from investors to bankroll its expansion in online...

The bank is close to agreeing a deal that will value it at around £1.25bn, compared with the more than £2bn valuation secured at its most...

As global investors, we will be sharing views on the main effects of the pandemic for entrepreneurs across EM regions. Join us on May 27,...

Key takeaways from Plaid's facilitation of a digital makeover in financial services can be incorporated into the nascent digital...

Colombia contributes 31 companies to the list — as many as the rest of Latin America put together - with fintech well represented as a...

COVID-19 is hurting LatAm fintech lenders’ non-performing loan rates, as well as other metrics, according to new Iupana study

London based mobile-first banking and tax accounting software for SMEs raised $21m from ABHH Group.

Austin, Texas homebuying lender raised $20m in equity funding led by Adams Street Partners. 

San Francisco based crypto trading service raised $17m in funding from investors including Avon Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed...

London based payments-as-a-service API platform raised £18.9m in growth funding led by Highland Europe.

Singapore based SME lending platform raised $20m in a Series B extension round co-led by Vertex Growth fund and Kuok Group’s Orion Fund

New York based wealth management platform for financial advisors raised $14.5m in Series A funding led by Sequoia.

New York based bitcoin rewards startup raised $3m in a Seed extension round led by Founders Fund.

London based enterprise payments platform raised £3.8m in Seed funding led by Balderton Capital.

New York based warranties-as-a-service platform raised $14M in Series A financing led by Spark Capital.

Cointelegraph Talks held a panel on May 5 with portfolio company TradeBlock director of institutional research John Todaro, and joined by...

Samsung is partnering with personal finance company SoFi to launch the new card and cash management account. Both products are expected...

Europe’s largest challenger banks are seeing slow user uptake in the US, new research shows. The European cohort is led by German N26...

Libra is shoring up its talent to work with governments and regulators. Prior to the role with HSBC, Levey served the U.S. government as...

With America readier than ever to close the liquidity taps on rivals, China is investing time and money in building a private track. It...

San Francisco based challenger bank for immigrants and the underbanked raised $7.5m in Seed financing from Hillsven Capital and...

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) shows China making up 65% of total global hashrate, with the U.S. and Russia back on...

The March bitcoin crash meant that roughly 2.3m miners had gone offline and the hash rate was its lowest since September 2019. Since...

While still closing a $4.5 billion acquisition of LeggMason, Franklin Templeton announced the purchase of AdvisorEngine and plans to use...

A deeply depressing read from the Atlantic. Transaction volumes, a decent-enough proxy for sales, show Travel agencies are down 98%,...

Macro investor Paul Tudor Jones is buying Bitcoin as a hedge against the inflation he sees coming from central bank money-printing,...

SoftBank-funded fintech challenger Ualá expands rapidly amid the pandemic. It has issued more than 1.9m debit cards and is signing up...

The purchase of AdvisorEngine, a vendor offering integrated wealth management technology to 1,200 advisory firms, firmly places the large...

Seattle, Washington based property management platform raised $12m in Series B financing led by Madrona Venture Group.

London based online shareholder voting platform raised $20m from JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Deutsche Bank.

According to mobile app data provider, App Annie, finance apps are crushing it both at home and abroad. The US recorded 55% growth in...

Alongside a wider coalition, they announced the Mojaloop Foundation, which will develop a free, open-source real-time payments platform...

Equity derivatives clearing organization OCC has selected portfolio company Axoni to help it replace its securities lending...

The rationale is to make it easier for banks to take stakes in fintech firms, thereby spurring the lending sector to drop its outdated...

London based business banking and accounting app raised £4m in pre-Series A financing led by ING Ventures.

London based digital pet insurance provider raised £78m in Series C financing led by FTV Capital.

London based real-time payments startup raised £2.35m in Seed financing led by Force Over Mass.

San Francisco based API software for banks raised $9m in Series A financing led by QED, SaaSts, and NYCA. 

Austin, Texas based consumers healthcare savings platform raised $5m in Seed financing led by Next Coast Ventures.

Germany based automated bookkeeping platform for SMEs raised €27m in Series B financing led by Vintage Investment Partners.

Germany based consumer challenger bank raised $100m in an extension of its Series D round at a valuation of $3.5b.

California based consumer finance and investing app raised raised $280m in Series F funding at an $8.3b valuation led by Sequoia Capital.

Despite the pandemic's effect on the country, implementation will be carried out in four phases, until October 2021, with open banking...

Opensignal reveals that average U.S. 5G download speeds are still hovering below the country’s typical Wi-Fi speeds, an issue mostly...

The Covid-induced surge in e-commerce boosted the growth of digital payments in Latin America. But doubts remain as far as how fast the...

Portfolio company Migo has been profiled in one of the most robust discussions on fintech happening in the world today.

The Optiva deployment was accelerated to support a relief effort called Oxígeno2030, which leverages at-cost mobile connectivity to help...

The Economist explores the defining feature of the latest innovation revolution - breakneck speed! Companies are being forced to raise...

Portfolio company Ocrolus is powering lenders by digitally analyzing documents at scale, allowing the efficient PPP underwriting process....

WhatsApp has made significant progress in advancing its relationship with local regulators. With approval looking likely for payments,...

Royal Bank of Scotland has ended an attempt to compete with digital challenger banks like Monzo and Revolut, just 6 months after it was...

Jio acquired a majority stake in Nowfloats, a platform for retailers to build omni-channel digital store fronts. The Facebook partnership...

Some observers might see the Facebook-Reliance Jio move as threatening UPI and Indian public infrastructure, but in fact, this is exactly...

Portfolio company Sigma Ratings is offering state governments, hospital groups or multilateral development organizations complimentary...

Portfolio company Flutterwave accelerated the development of Flutterwave Store, a portal for African merchants to create digital shop to...

Even as companies lay off workers, financial services firms continue to hire. Data from HackerRank shows that interviews at financial...

Two years ago, a16z launched its first dedicated  $300m crypto fund. It has raised a second $515m in the same vein.

The estimated 12m players of Nintendo’s cartoon fantasy Animal Crossing: New Horizons were informed last week about the move, in which...

London based cash management platform raised $15m in funding led by OMERS Ventures.

Airbnb recently tapped Goldman and Morgan Stanley, to help raise $2 billion of debt, at high rates. Private tech companies typically have...

Amsterdam based challenger bank for businesses raised a €6.5m Seed funding round led by Target Global.

California based challenger bank for SMBs raised a $5.7m Seed round led by Base10 Partners.

Washington, DC based network of 20 micro finance institutions and banks received a $15m loan facility with a 5y tenor led by Calvert...

Lagos based API developer connecting individual bank accounts to third party applications raised $1m in Pre-Seed financing led by TLcom...

New York based consumer finance and savings app raised $112m in a strategic round of funding from LendingTree.  

Stash has continued...

Hong Kong based infrastructure for digital financial services raised $50m in Series B funding led by Peter Lee, co-chairman of Henderson...