In the 10 years since Chris Torres created Nyan Cat, an animated flying cat with a Pop-Tart body leaving a rainbow trail, the meme has...

Want to know what IMMO does? IMMO CIO and co-founder Samantha Kempe does a terrific job on this 24-minute podcast outlining the "why,...

For more than 500,000 properties across 20 markets in the U.S., Zillow has added language on its websites and apps inviting owners to...

Visa and Mastercard are planning to raise swipe fees for some types of credit-card purchases in April, adding to the squeeze felt by...

Last year was a banner season for the IPO market in general and public offerings for mortgage companies in particular. Between July and...

Goldman charged into the debate last week with the rollout of Marcus Invest, its automated money manager. Marcus joins a crowded field of...

Matt Levinson and Octane co-founder and CEO Jason Guss examine the evolution of fintech from the first to the second generation of...

Mexico based credit card startup raised $32.5m in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Partnership between global commerce leader and emerging market financial technology unicorn provides reliable payment technology tailored...

UK chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to inveil a fast-track fintech visa to attract top tech talent to post-Brexit Britain.

Intuit has filed a federal lawsuit against Mastercard and Visa over 'unlawful' price fixing in interchange and card scheme fee structures.

Open banking is perhaps the most significant regulatory change in the history of Latin American banking, promising to boost competition...

According to the S-1 filing, Coinbase had net revenue of $1.14b in 2020, up from $483m the previous year, and net income of $322m for the...

San Francisco based digital asset custodian and banking company raised $80m in Series C funding led by GIC. 

Kansas based digitally native neobank focused on Black America raised $5m in Seed funding led by Barclays and Anthemis.

South Africa based fintech API startup raised $4m in Seed funding led by Firstminute Capital and The Raba Partnership.

UK based credit card startup raised $5m in Seed funding led by EQT Ventures.

New York based alternative trading system raised $14m in Series A funding from Nasdaq Ventures, Goldman Sachs, BMO Financial Group, BofA,...

Toronto based fintech and credit education startup raised $25m in Series C funding from Kensington Capital Partners, BDC Capital, iA...

Top Shot marries two markets that are both incredibly popular and lucrative at the moment: cryptocurrency and sportscards. The platform...

Beeple is selling these works as NFTs — which usually consists of an image or video file, sometimes with a physical object attached,...

The firm creates digital items known as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. Unlike Bitcoin, an NFT is meant to be unique and might be created...

The “operational error,” as the Fed described it, impacted multiple services, including its pivotal automated clearinghouse system, which...

New York based Ethereum scaling solution raised $25m in Series A funding led by a16z. 

The plan is to spread Afterpay services to Stripe merchants via an "easy and seamless integration," according to a press release. The...

Miami based payments platform focused on Brazil raised $70m in Series C funding led by IDC Ventures and Fuel Venture Capital.

While a number of central banks are exploring digital currencies, it is China’s central bank that is furthest ahead, at least with a...

The company said it purchased approximately 3,318 bitcoins, expanding on its October 2020 buy of 4,709. Square said it represents about...

Brooklyn based insurtech startup focused on the trucking market raised $4.5m in Seed funding led by Anthemis Group and Lerer Hippeau.

France based insurance distribution startup raised $11m in Series A funding led by BGV.

San Francisco based platform for financially challenged homeowners raised $25m in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures.

The “buy now, pay later” firm completed a $650m funding round in September from a group of investors led by Silver Lake that valued it at...

New York and Tel Aviv based AI-powered investment management SaaS startup raised $12m in Series A funding led by Team8, Blumberg Capital...

Congratulations to portfolio company Parkside on their Series A financing. Shanghai, China-based Enlight Growth Partners (“EGP”) led the...

The fintech giant, most recently valued by private investors at $5b, is re-branding ahead of an expected IPO. More recently, having...

Singapore based education financing startup raised $5m in Series A funding led by Monk's Hill Ventures and Qualgro.

South Africa based digital bank raised $109m in new funding from Apis Partners and JG Summit Holdings.

Congratulations to portfolio company Centrifuge on their new round of funding. The SAFT round began last December and was led by Mike...

Bottlepay, a Bitcoin-based global payments app, has secured £11m in a seed funding. The round was led by a range of investors including...

China’s bank regulator tightened requirements on the internet loan business of commercial banks, amid heightened scrutiny of online...

Palo Alto based stock option financing marketplace raised $20m in Series A funding led by Group 11.

Israel based developer of predictive customer analytics software for financial institutions raised $75m in growth funding led by Insight...

Copenhagen based accounting software and marketplace startup raised $73m in new funding from Lugard Road Capital.

Indonesia based retail investing platform raised $7.7m in Series A funding led by Ascend Capital Group.

Toast is planning an initial public offering that could value the restaurant-software provider at around $20b. In going public, Toast, a...

Carney, who has worked as the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, will help Stripe with his experience in global financial systems and...

Brex, which makes financial management software for businesses, announced it has filed to open an industrial bank in Utah, according to a...

Apex Clearing Corp., a financial technologies firm that focuses on securities custody and clearing, has agreed to go public through a...

Fernando Tatís Jr. was 18 years old, just a low-level prospect from the Dominican Republic trying to work his way up in the San Diego...

Tom Ricketts, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, says his bond broker Incapital lost its technological edge while he spent the past decade...

China is considering relaxing restrictions to allow its citizens to invest in securities outside its mainland in a bid to facilitate...

Close to 10m shares in the Purpose Investments bitcoin ETF changed hands on the first day of trading in Toronto, according to data from...

Many consumers don’t link their primary debit and credit cards to their mobile payment apps but nearly 30% of Apple Pay users and 40% of...

By December, one in every three transactions was taking place on an electronic platform, according to data from Greenwich Associates....

Speaking with founders and investors this year, it has become clear to Techcrunch that the API model of delivering a product is more than...

Oakland based payments company for local governments and utilities raised $20m in Series A funding led by Kapor Capital and XYZ.

Seattle based developer of property management software raised $20m in growth funding led by Fifth Wall Ventures.

San Francisco based neobank raised $63m in new funding led by NBA star Russell Westbrook’s Russell Westbrook Enterprises. 

Investors are valuing Stripe at a $115b valuation in “secondary market” transactions, which is up more than threefold from the $36b...

The judges unanimously ruled that Uber drivers are “workers” entitled to rights like minimum wage, holiday pay and rest breaks. The...

Pablo Cuaron, Mastercard's Director of New Payment Streams, will moderate a panel on Challenger Bank, Open Banking, BaaS and the future...

Digital wallets are booming in Argentina, and the banks, fintechs and big techs behind them are looking at how they can get a competitive...

YouTube plans to roll out new monetization opportunities for creators, including ways to make money directly from viewers. YouTube wants...

On most content platforms today, the ethos of the American Dream is alive and well — a recent study of kids ages eight to 12 found that...

California’s vote to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as contractors has emboldened other employers to eliminate salaried positions—and has...

Atlanta based payments startup raised $4.5m in Series A funding led by Arlington Family Partners.

San Francisco based online trading startup for wagering on questions about future events raised $30m in Series A funding led by Sequoia...

The dogecoin market has a pack leader. Records show that a person, or entity, owns about 28% of all of the cryptocurrency in...

Visa global head of fintech Terry Angelos talks about the company's interest in striking partnerships and desire to be as prominent as...

Business owners from all walks of life — cafes, retailers, the trades — can access QR codes on their phones using the Revolut Business...

Brokerage app Robinhood will allow customers to deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies, Reuters reported. That will include the meme-based...

Congratulations to portfolio company Flutterwave CEO Olugbenga Agboola for being named to the Time100 Next's list of innovators for 2021....

New York based social investing app raised $220m in Series D funding from investors including Accel, Greycroft, Lakestar, Intuition...

San Francisco based autonomous checkout solution raised $150m in Series C funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

India based cross border neobanking platform raised $15m in Seed funding led by Accel and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

New York based data hub for homeowners raised $3m in Seed funding from Primary Venture Partners, Lerer Hippeau, and Liberty Mutual...

London based provider of cryptocurrency services raised $120m in new funding from investors including GV, Kyle Bass, Access Industries,...

Artificial intelligence is no longer simply an experiment for traditional asset managers. Firms that have implemented a full range of...

You used to need at least $10m in investible assets to draw the attention of wealth managers at Goldman Sachs. Now, all it takes is...

San Francisco based startup developing a platform for lower income Americans to build credit and save money raised $15m in Series A...

New York based provider of data-driven personalization and customer engagement tools for banks and financial services companies raised...

A federal judge on Tuesday said Citigroup is not entitled to recoup half a billion dollars of its own money that it mistakenly wired...

Public.com, a social-focused free stock trading service, is nearing the close of a Series D just two months after raising a $65m Series...

MicroStrategy is doubling down on its big bet on Bitcoin. The enterprise software maker announced a $600m convertible bond offering...

The rise in popularity of highly volatile cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin could simply be seen as a speculative sign of US Federal...

San Francisco based healthcare payments tech company raised $5m in Seed funding led by Viola Ventures.

NYDIG's filing notably reveals that Morgan Stanley will serve as the proposed ETF's authorized participant. If approved, NYDIG's bitcoin...

Australia based decentralized trading platform raised $12m in new funding from Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm and IOSG.

New York based “operating system for active investment management” raised $12.5m in Series A funding led by General Catalyst.

India based digital lending startup raised $75m in Series C funding led by PremjiInvest. 

The duo is putting 500 bitcoin, which is currently worth $23.6m, in the endowment called ₿trust. The fund will be set up as a blind...

MoneyLion plans to go public with an equity value of $2.9 billion, raising $350m from the SPAC and $250m from investors such as BlackRock...

Congrats to Dee Choubey and the entire MoneyLion team. This marks a major milestone in their journey and represents a big step forward in...

The events of 2020 demonstrate the importance of maintaining resiliency, capacity, performance, immediacy and security across our...

Today, we are witnessing an acceleration in new technological breakthroughs. To enlighten investors on the impact of these breakthroughs...

Congratulations to portfolio company BottlePay, which launched in the UK yesterday, making it easier to send Bitcoin Lightning payments...

Amsterdam surpassed London as Europe’s largest share trading centre last month as the Netherlands scooped up business lost by the UK...

Fintech startup Klarna appears to be turning its mobile app into a banking app in Germany. Customers living there can now open a consumer...

Amazon’s grip on the internet economy appears to be coming for currency next, with the e-commerce giant preparing to launch a “digital...

The organizations have launched a program to foster and grow the adoption of network tokenization via Spreedly’s Payments Orchestration...

Colombia is working on an open banking regulation expected to be ready in 2022. Regulators hope the API structure will encourage large...

In June last year, Goldman had to close Marcus’ easy access savings account to new UK customers. Regulated deposit limits during the...

Austin based mortgage platform raised $25m in Series A funding led by Next Coast Ventures.

It seems savvy traders weren't the only ones surprised by the market's wild moves. It turns out the machine brains didn't see it coming...

An integration between two of Intuit’s top acquisitions will help put Credit Karma’s new U.S. checking account – Credit Karma Money Spend...

Bitcoin’s rapid and widespread adoption has created an opportunity for community banks and credit unions to compete for market share....

The custody bank said it will hold, transfer and issue bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on behalf of its asset-management clients. In...

New York based retirement savings platform raised $12.5m in Series A funding led by Canapi Ventures.

France based B2B payments platform raised €20m in Series A funding from DST Global, Serena, LocalGlobe and Breega.

Sweden based challenger bank raised $30m in new funding led by M2 Asset Management. 

San Francisco based provider of 401(k) programs to SMBs raised $55m in Series C funding led by Glynn Capital.

India based digital payments and working capital platform for merchants raised $108m in Series D funding led by Coatue.

San Francisco based developer of a financial management platform for writers and producers raised an undisclosed amount of Series A...

Mastercard will begin allowing cardholders to transact in certain cryptocurrencies on its network, becoming the latest company to embrace...

San Francisco based startup with a credit card aimed at first-time borrowers raised $7m in Seed funding led by KB Investment.

Los Angeles based marketplace for short-term, personal loans, raised $10m in Series A funding led by ACME Capital. 

London based lending-as-a-service platform raised £13.5m in Series A funding led by Point72 Ventures.

Miami based provider of banking technology solutions raised $53m in Series C funding led by Insight Partners.

San Francisco based mobile-focused blockchain payments startup raised $20m in new funding from a16z, Greenfield One and Electric Capital.

New York based digital wallet and loyalty platform for insurance raised $2.5m in Seed funding from IA Capital Group, MS&AD Ventures,...

New York based B2B payments platform raised $13m in new funding led by TLV Partners.

Total loans at the 25 biggest U.S. banks comprise less than 46% of their combined assets, down from 54% this time last year. The figures...

Houston based multilingual neobank and financial services platform raised $20m in new funding led by undisclosed investors. 

Consumers will be able to use Shop Pay to complete purchases, expanding on existing options to use PayPal or manually enter credit or...

Canada based digital engagement platform for resolving past due bills raised $43m in additional Series B funding led by Inovia...

TikTok has plans to roll out several new features, including a tool that lets its most popular users share links to products and...

U.K. based investing app in the ESG space raised £2.5 million in Seed funding led by Ada Ventures.

Toronto based digital asset savings and credit platform raised $2.7m in new funding led by White Star’s Digital Asset Fund.

The transaction with Reinvent Technology Partners, a special purpose acquisition company that counts Zynga founder Mark Pincus and...

Cincinnati based small business insurance startup raised $11.5m in Series A-1 funding led by Intact Ventures.

Founded in 2012, Oscar earlier focused on selling insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The company,...

Tesla Inc. invested $1.5b in Bitcoin and signaled its intent to begin accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment, sending prices...

The world’s first regulated ether futures product may draw more institutional demand for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market...

Consumers’ pandemic shopping lists went beyond baking flour and exercise equipment in 2020. They also bought more life insurance....

Monthly regulatory filings collated by Bloomberg show “payment for order flow” earned US brokers $2.9bn in 2020. TD Ameritrade generated...

Are you a "shrimp", "dolphin", or "humpback"? Galssnode analyzes the distribution of Bitcoin across network participants and shows that...