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New York based platform for locating and transferring legacy 401(k) assets raised $2m in Seed funding led by Bling Capital.
“One of the biggest problems is accounts that are tied to employers,” Gaurav Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Capitalize, told Crunchbase...…
New York based company simplifying the retirement process with a personalized, digital plan from Certified Financial Planners (CFPs)...
Amazon accounts for nearly 40 percent of e-commerce sales in the US today, and it takes a cut of even more online shopping by selling...
Vienna based investment and trading platform for cryptocurrencies raised $52m in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures.
“One of the major projects was this Series A round, which was made possible by the incredible support of Speedinvest. The unusual past...…
New York based fractional investing platform for alternatives investments such as luxury cars raised $17m in new funding from investors...
Baltimore based provider of financial and wealth management services intended to demystify and simplify financial planning process raised...
Florida based payments network for the global shipping industry raised $35m in Series A funding led by Insight Partners.
PayCargo moves approximately $4 billion in cargo payments a year, but del Riego said the company covers less than 3 percent of the global...…
Ant Bank was one of the 8 recipients of the virtual banking license by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), this launch makes it the...
Sber has launched a series of digital services alongside its tech company revamp. These include SberBox, a TV streaming device,...
Seattle based platform for payments collection raised $6m in Series A funding from Framework Venture Partners, Anthos Capital, and Vulcan...
U.K. based platform for buying property, getting mortgages, and handling the legalities raised £5m in Series A funding from Lord Jacob...
San Francisco based API platform for health insurance data exchange raised $12.5m in Series A funding led by Costanoa Ventures and Spark...
Philippines based online payments API raised $12m in Series A funding led by Stripe.
Co-founder and chief executive Francis Plaza said PayMongo has processed a total of almost $20 million in payments since launching, and...…
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service plans to alter the standard 1040 form by putting this question on the front page: At any time during...
This summer, MicroStrategy became the first public company to invest the lion’s share of its treasury in Bitcoin stating that “Once the...
The speed of the COVID market crash and recovery happened so fast, it was clear that traditional numbers weren’t timely enough to get a...
The Kazakh fintech provider Kaspi.kz, backed by Goldman Sachs, is reviving a plan to sell shares in London after lockdowns to fight the...
The 10-year-old money transfer company has expanded rapidly since the co-founders started it as a way to reduce the fees they paid to...
Decentralized exchange platform Uniswap launched its own governance token UNI on September 17th, and 130,000 UNI tokens were gifted to...
Uniswap has more value locked (TVL) than its upstart rival, SushiSwap, less than a day after SUSHI block rewards for liquidity providers...
Sao Paulo based facial biometrics and digital admission startup Acesso Digital raised $107m in funding co-led by SoftBank and General...
As part of its accelerated innovation mission and open cloud strategy, Finastra has set forth a plan to support 9m lives around the world...
Cloud-based ClearBank became the first clearing bank to offer multi-currency bank accounts via API. It will offer clients the ability to...
Peru has been progressing on fintech regulation, but currently lacks an umbrella regulation for the sector, which would give a greater...
The company said its AI-fueled ID verification offerings are now available to Microsoft Azure Active Directory External Identities for...
Many former top Treasury officials have joined banks in saying that existing regulations don’t give them the tools they need to better...
Boston based accounts payable and payments automation solution provider raised $50m in Series D funding from existing investors Great...
Its new platform “Trusple”, a contraction of “trust made simple”, is based on the company’s blockchain technology Antchain. Buyers and...
New York based credit card company for people to build credit and spend responsibly raised $55m in Series C funding led by Valar Ventures.
Gross said that the company’s model has allowed it to handle the storm of changes that have been underway this year. “It’s allowing us to...…
France based challenger bank for teens raised €3m in new Seed funding led by Founders Future.
The startup says that Apple Pay and Google Pay are on the roadmap, as well as money pots. There will be some personalized discounts in...…
Netherlands based provider of online financial services to European SMEs and freelancers raised $12m in additional Seed funding from...
New York based information security and compliance-as-a-service platform raised $10m in Series A funding led by Canapi Ventures.
Founded by Austin Ogilvie and Sam Li, both two-time founders and Y Combinator alumni, and industry veteran, Eva Pittas, who oversaw...…
Atlanta based provider of an app and debit card products aimed at helping parents teach children how to save raised $215m in Series C...
Initially, approved sellers will have access to lines of credit from Marcus between $10,000 and $75,000, and plans are to substantially...
Spoofing typically involves flooding derivatives markets with orders that traders don’t intend to execute to trick others into moving...
Portfolio company IMMO explains to German newspaper WirtschaftsWoche how it helps financial giants to buy up apartments, refurbish, and...
The idea of an official digital coin has been touted by several countries and companies worldwide as of late, particularly as the...
There’s been a lot of action in the past year for those who heard the crypto market calling. Bitcoin, the largest digital coin, dropped...
The Australian challenger bank claims its Volt 2.0 project will allow business partners to provide full-service banking and payments to...
The virtual bank uses Thought Machine’s core banking system and was created in partnership with Hong Kong Telecoms and Chinese travel...
Brazil based B2B fintech company operating in payments, BaaS and credit raised $11.4m in new funding led by Movile.
"We believe that any company, in any sector, will be able to add new revenue lines by offering digital accounts, prepaid cards,...…
Singapore based robo advisor raised $18.6m in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures.
“I could see how a lot of institutions and some ultra-high-net worth individuals who are clients of the bank were using the product, and...…
San Diego based provider of machine learning solutions to lenders raised an undisclosed amount of Series B funding led by Napier Park...
Israel based no-code platform to automate repetitive business processes for the insurance and finance industries raised $11m in Series A...
Its decision to pull out of retail options leaves Morgan Stanley as the sole major Wall Street bank in the business, which is dominated...
Brazil based startup that helps retailers access financial information and services raised $15m in Series A funding led by Bradesco and...
London and Warsaw based provider of revenue-based financing to European startups raised $26m in new funding led by Mouro Capital.
“When we launched, we knew selling equity to buy Facebook and Google ads was a bad deal for founders,” says Ismail. “So this is where we...…
San Francisco based software and payments company for small and medium-sized businesses raised $60m in Series C funding led by DST...
Palo Alto based provider of insurance policies for operators of small businesses raised $250m in Series D funding led by CapitalG and...
Minneapolis based insurtech company raised $500m in Series E funding from Blackstone, New Enterprise Associates, Tiger Global Management...
Throughout its history, the company has offered subscription bundles at varying price points. By 2019, it offered a free checking...
Yandex, one of the few search engines globally with a higher local market share than Google, has recently made strides in fields ranging...
Turkey based agriculture fintech startup raised $5m in Series A funding led by Quona Capital.
“The pandemic that changed the balance of the period we live in has once again revealed the importance of agriculture. As Tarfin, we have...…
Chicago based digital service for retirement planning raised $30m in Series D funding led by Francisco Partners.
“This funding advances our mission to help everyone retire successfully,” said NextCapital Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder John...…
The component that was most severely affected by the pandemic was the value of corporate equities owned by households, which fell 25% in...
The OCC has taken a number of steps to integrate the crypto space with the existing financial system under Brian Brooks, acting...
London based open banking startup raised $25m in a. Series C extension round joined from Northzone, Tamasek, Anthemis, and Connect Ventures.
Francesco Simoneschi, CEO, TrueLayer, says: "Our vision when we founded TrueLayer, where Open Banking is the default pipe to move money,...…
South Korea based global remittances startup raised $10m in Series B funding from Magna Investment, Shinsegae I&C and Dt &...
Purchasing goods without having to check out saves customers time and annoyance while allowing retailers to upgrade their operations....
In this Bloomberg game you get to decide how to survive as a northern England manufacturer whose sales form part of the £300 billion of...
Digital mortgage platforms have the potential to reduce discrimination. But automated systems provide rich opportunities to perpetuate...
MoneyLion launched its new thematic investment solutions this week. With thematic investing, MoneyLion members can now invest in...
Chamath Palihapitiya, the former Facebook executive, had an extremely awkward exchange with Andrew Sorkin on CNBC this week, over how...
Monedo, formerly known as Kreditech, once the largest German fintech startup backed by the likes of Peter Thiel, JC Flowers and media...
San Francisco based challenger bank raised $485m in Series F funding, more than doubling its valuation from December and is worth almost...
Being repaid the £150,000 in dollars and euros that he had lent to a relative 10 years ago should have been good news for Richard Walker....
Banks have a short window to convert potential clients after they download the institution’s app, say digital onboarding specialists.
Customers should be able to complete a digital onboarding process in less than three minutes to maximize conversion rates, said Juan...…
In an interview with Karen Webster, Vilash Poovala - founder and CEO of portfolio company Oyster - discusses how financial platforms,...
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander have already signed the pledge, the key principles of which require them to provide clear...
The bank released the first version of a personal finance management tool that gives Marcus customers a top-down view of all their...
The decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum launched their token this week. The supply of 1b tokens is owned...
Will Danoff has been wondering why billions of dollars keep flowing out of the Contrafund, the giant mutual fund he manages at Fidelity...
San Francisco based point-of-sale (POS), buy now, pay later (BNPL) lender raised $500m in Series G funding led by GIC and Durable Capital...
French and UK banking regulators are among the first to require stress tests for climate change, which will make banks more aware of how...
The costs of wildfires, storms, droughts and floods impact everything from insurance and mortgage markets to pension funds and other...
This episode of the Axios Re:Cap podcast digs into how Amazon hopes the fund will help achieve its goal of being carbon neutral by 2040,...
Media Brands include Cycle World, Motorcyclist, Dirt Rider, Motorcycle Cruiser, UTV Driver, ATV Rider, and Cycle Volta. Combining these...
New Zealand based anti-money laundering startup raised $5.4 million in Series A funding led by Bedrock Capital.
First AML co-founder Milan Cooper is excited by the opportunities the new investment affords: “Our plans to accelerate global market...…
Amsterdam based fintech company focused on unpaid invoices raised €5m in Series A funding led by AB Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach. Factris is now at various stages of...…
The offer will be available for any school around the world offering Flywire as a payment method for international tuition through the...
SWIFT said its platform will improve interactions between financial institutions, optimize speed and provide transparency and...
Headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Kraken Financial is the first digital asset company in U.S. history to receive a bank charter...
San Francisco based business payments network raised $31m in strategic funding led by Truist Ventures.
“This funding round marks an important milestone for the company, putting us in an ideal position to build out our channel partner...…
India based digital insurer raised $60m in Series D funding led by Munich Re Ventures.
“We’re excited to join forces with one of the leading digital insurers in India, as well as other investment partners, to help support...…
Pay cuts and a lesser need for pricey office space offer companies ways to save money. But a migration of workers from downtown...
New York based identity operating system for the financial services industry raised $40m in Series B funding led by Canapi Ventures.
“All of the risk and fraud requirements to validate identity were designed for the brick-and-mortar world,” co-founder and CRO Laura...…
UBS chairman Axel Weber has used external management consultants to examine the potential for a deal but no formal discussions have taken...
With the sway of stay-at-home traders growing and starting to eclipse other influences on equities, figuring out who is doing what among...
Square is letting some small business employees get a portion of their earned wages ahead of time. The payments company also announced an...
The new thematic portfolios are designed as packaged solutions to meet certain investment interests or preferences of MoneyLion...
New York based fintech service for millenials to invest via a checking account raised $1.8m in Seed funding led by Mendoza Ventures.
“We’re proud to be the first to launch an investing account with the flexibility of checking,” says Ganu. He points out that Acorns...…
Eighty percent of Americans now say they can manage their finances without a physical bank branch, according to a new survey commissioned...
According to a notice associated with the transaction, Opendoor will have an enterprise value of $4.8b in the deal, including equity...
Swedish payments platform for e-commerce raised $650m in primary and secondary funding led by Silver Lake.
More recently, the company expanded to the U.S. where it now has 9 million customers out of 90 million customers in total. It mainly...…
Uruguay based provider of payment processing solutions in emerging markets raised $200m in new funding led by General Atlantic.
“I am extremely proud of what the team at dLocal has achieved since we started serving global ecommerce players four years ago,” said...…
India based cashback and coupon site raised $10m in Series B funding led by Korea Investment Partners.
“We are the only VC-funded cashback site in India. While capital itself is not the differentiator, it is what we have been able to do...…
JPMorgan’s findings provide a data point in the debate over whether employees perform as well at the kitchen table as they do in the...
The move illustrates growing competition among the country’s five biggest lenders - which account for more than 80% of Brazil’s deposits...
E-commerce payments company, 2Checkout, has been acquired by global POS provider Verifone, which itself was taken private in 2019 for...
Congratulations to portfolio companies NextCapital and Vestwell for being named as finalists in the 401(k) - Retirement Plan Support,...
As major decentralized exchange volume now surpasses that of centralized digital asset venues, portfolio company, TradeBlock, notes that...
Texas based insurance startup creating affordable health plans for small businesses and self-employed professionals raised $10m in Series...
The NYSE plans to announce that it will run one of its exchanges from a backup site in Chicago for a week as a demonstration of its...
There’s a spate of new stock exchanges ready to launch to compete for your trading dollar. LTSE began full trading operations this week....
Credit Suisse is to launch a digital banking app to rival the likes of Revolut and N26, offering free foreign transactions and digital...
Despite much green talk, just two of the UK's 36 main banks can clearly demonstrate effective plans to reduce their carbon impacts in a...
JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and State Street have invested $11 million in Capitolis, a New York-based technology startup that seeks to help...
Tactics, known as debt-shaming, have become highly controversial in Kenya, where a flood of small loans, once championed as a way to lift...
So why are New York and other states fighting the OCC’s authority to charter national banks that engage in many core banking services but...
The mortgage market recorded its best quarter in years this spring, a reflection of how the housing market is booming in 2020 even as...
By launching Fidelity Digital Funds under an 18-year seasoned exec, the Boston giant is signalling no let-up by putting something scarcer...
The Hong Kong based digital asset exchange and operator is merging with publicly traded 8i Enterprise Acquisition Corp, a British Virgin...
Last year, when a group of White, male bank bosses testified before a House committee, Representative Al Green asked if they thought...
Colleagues and friends said Ms. Fraser, who would be the first woman to lead a major Wall Street bank, is up for the challenge, having...
According to research from Chainalysis, many Latin American businesses use crypto to buy retail goods, while citizens seek to avoid...
We're incredibly excited to announce that we have invested in the $14m Series Seed financing round in Oyster. The company is building a...
New York based home buying and selling platform raised $69m in Series C funding led by Revolution Growth.
Orchard cofounder and CEO Court Cunningham had this to say in a prepared statement: In the same way Amazon has fundamentally changed...…
U.S. and Israel based electronic money laundering detection and prevention startup raised $35m in Series B funding led by Red Dot Capital...
India based investment app targeting millennials raised $30m in Series C funding led by YC Continuity.
“We believe Groww is building the largest retail brokerage in India. At YC, we have known the founders since the company was just an idea...…
Paris based insurtech company raised $18.5m in a Series A funding led by Serena and Cathay Innovation.
“With traditional insurance, when a corporation has a claim you can wait more than 18 months to get a payout. It is usually unclear and...…
The Long-Term Stock Exchange can now trade all U.S. exchange-listed stocks, and it will now start soliciting new listings from companies...
If European banks want to catch up with American and Chinese ones, they must push for consolidation to improve their return on capital...
Mastercard's platform—or "sandbox" in tech parlance—will let central banks issue digital versions of their currency in a controlled...
As a result of the closures, banks across the board saw a spike in online activity. At Bank of America, 47 percent of second quarter...
Roboadvisors collectively managed $631b in assets in the US as of June 30, or 13 percent more than they did a year ago, according to...
Texas based manager of self-funded insurance plans for small businesses raised $20.8m in Series A funding from Gigafund, Trust Ventures,...
DCG has acquired the London-based but emerging market-focused bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange Luno for an undisclosed sum. Luno has...
New York based fintech platform for U.S. freelancers and startups raised $5.8m in new funding from investors including Variant...
London based identity verification platform that provides a technical and legal toolkit to cover KYC/KYB/AML needs raised $6m in Series A...
San Francisco based payroll and compliance platform for international teams raised $30m in Series B funding led by Spark Capital.
“We’ve squashed the conventional notion that there’s a particular radius in which you can attract talent,” said Deel co-founder and CEO,...…
The Stockholm based company is currently in talks with investors, aiming to raise $500m as it looks to fuel the expansion of its growing...
Since its launch, Apple Pay transactions at brick-and-mortar retailers relied on NFC and an iPhone near the payment terminal to make a...
With business booming in the midst of the pandemic, e-commerce enabler Shopify is now worth more than eBay, Best Buy, Etsy, Nordstrom,...
London based peer-to-peer online invoice finance marketplace raised £50m in new funding led by Viola Credit to continue lending under the...
London and Stockholm based provider of life and health insurance policies raised $30m in growth funding led by CreditEase’s Fintech...
New York based business payments startup raised $80m in a Series B extension round led by Coatue and General Catalyst.
“At a time when small businesses need the most flexibility, they have the least,” said Matan Bar, Melio Co-Founder and CEO, who...…
Singapore based B2B cross-border payments network raised $60m in Series B funding led by Helios Investment Partners.
“This marks a significant milestone in our next phase of growth as we strive towards helping financial institutions and businesses around...…
Amsterdam based payments startup raised $106m in Series B funding led by TCV.
“It built the backend and front end by myself when I still lived with my parents,” Mol said. “It’s the Dutch way. Bootstrap your idea for...…
CaixaBank is the third largest bank in Spain by assets, whilst Bankia is the fifth. Together, the two would hold assets of more than...
The high velocity of digital assets as programmable money, and/ or as a security that can be pledged as collateral, offer a way for...
Like its home country, which has divided world opinion with its contrarian stance on coronavirus, the $5.5b-valued Klarna is a Rorschach...
The new feature, which comes from a partnership between Google and parking app Passport, lets users pay for parking directly in Google...
Chicago based provider of an infrastructure to settle digital assets in an automated and regulated way raised $4.8m in Series C funding...
Voice commerce has accelerated, with 90m voice-enabled devices in the U.S. Google and Amazon are betting that their hardware – Alexa for...
Stock trading app Robinhood is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to disclose that it sold clients'...
Portfolio company Minka partnered with ACH Colombia, the country’s bank-owned ACH operator, to launch Transfiya at the end of 2019....
Stablecoin transactions in Argentina have ballooned this year. High inflation combined with government-imposed currency controls —...
Digital wallets are growing in popularity across Latin America, but they could do more to attract unbanked clients, says industry...
Estonia based insurtech startup raised €1.1m in Seed funding led by Icebreaker.vc.
“Cachet is part of a high growth vertical called ‘embedded finance’ and helps opens up a market to financial service providers that have...…
Congratulations to portfolio companies Anyfin, Flutterwave, Embroker, Ocrolus and Reonomy for making the third annual CB Insights Fintech...
Germany based peer-to-peer loan marketplace raised €150m in new funding led by Centerbridge, who will become the majority shareholder,...
The equity funding is made up of five new investors – but none are named. This is according to a filing with the US Securities and...
The move by Jiko, which bills itself as a new kind of bank, gives it broad access to the highly-regulated U.S. market. Fintech firms have...
Southeast Asia based online realty company raised $220.4m in new funding from its existing investors KKR and TPG Capital.
The deal allows Mastercard customers to split transactions into installments before, during or after checkout. It supplements...
With the update, an app developer that uses Plaid to query your bank account will get instant transactions updates if the financial...
yETH is a so-called “vault,” which means that users earn yields together. yETH automatically generates the highest interest or “yield”...
The latest service disruptions come at an awkward time for Robinhood. While the company has enjoyed huge customer and revenue growth in...
The defi lending platform Aave makes up 21.86% of that value. Another defi project that has been making waves is the Yearn Finance protocol
Congratulations to portfolio company Flutterwave CEO and cofounder Olugbenga ("GB") Agboola for being named by Fortune as one of the 40...
Indonesia based insurtech startup raised $54m in Series B funding led by LeapFrog Investments and SBI Investment.
“We plan to invest in infrastructure to help our Mitra be able to engage with our customers more,” said Kumar. “We believe it’s important...…
Brazil based digital bank raised $300m in Series C funding led by General Atlantic.
Speaking about the investment, Pedro Conrade, Founder of Neon, stated: “Neon was born with a clear purpose: to provide an accessible bank...…
Amazon has added insurance and even gold to its menu of financial services in India, to expand its customer base and attract more...
Boston based startup that helps SaaS companies get cash from accounts receivable raised $4.6m in Seed funding led by Caffeinated Capital,...
Fintech lenders have built new, automated ways of assessing businesses and issuing loans, offering small businesses digital and more...
The decision to pursue a full inquiry came after a series of hearings of the Bundestag’s finance committee, which spent hours grilling Mr...
The future of Coinbase, including any IPO, is likely to be a bellwether for the crypto industry as a whole. While the industry has grown...
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