Portfolio company Vestwell is making two changes to its oversight, naming board member Lori Hardwick as chairman of the board and adding...

In a joint statement issued by both companies, the partnership seeks to create a seamless payment ecosystem by aggregating and...

Under the plan, a selection of TikTok’s most popular viral videos will be auctioned to users in the form of NFTs. Fans will then be able...

Seeking to do things a bit differently, in 2014, Wise (fka TransferWise) organized a flashmob as part of the 'Nothing2Hide' campaign,...

You might not expect an insurance company to urge you to be reckless, but that is the message from Scandinavian insurer Hedvig, which...

Pakistan based buy-now-pay-later company raised $15m in Seed funding led by MSA Capital.

New York based financial research and market intelligence platform raised $180 million in Series C funding led by Viking Global...

New York based identity operating system for the financial sector raised $100m in Series C funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Mexico based small business lender raised $110m in Series E funding led by Tarsadia Capital and QED Investors.

Chicago based digital assets infrastructure startup raised $35m in Series C funding led by Point72 Ventures.

Jersey City based provider of insurance and credit products to gig workers raised $60m in Series B funding led by Volery Capital Partners.

New York based investment and savings app raised $60m in Series F funding led by Treasury. 

Crypto treasury management platform MultiSafe has rebranded to Coinshift and announced it has raised $2.5m in a seed funding round....

It is a sharp turnaround from last year, when the economy spiraled and many regional and community banks put merger plans on the shelf....

San Francisco based virtual payment card enablement startup raised $54m in Seed and Series A funding led by Oak HC/FT.

Palo Alto based provider of stock options funding solutions raised $55m in Series B funding led by Group 11.

Sweden based neo-insurer raised $45m in Series B funding led by Anthemis.

Virginia based fintech-as-a-service startup raised $11.4m in Series A funding led by Alpha Edison and Morpheus Ventures.

San Francisco based fintech company for small businesses raised $34m in Seed and Series A funding led by Ribbit Capital and Thrive Capital.

San Francisco based property tech startup in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, raised $20m in Series A funding led by 01 Advisors. 

Affirm is planning to debut a debit card and allow customers to buy and sell crypto directly from savings accounts they have with the...

Investor withdrawals were minimal early in the year as SPAC shares soared, but have risen with many blank-check companies trading below...

A video posted by a real estate agent in Las Vegas — claiming a company was pulling off a convoluted scheme to manipulate housing prices...

Omaha based insurtech focused on workers’ comp for SMBs raised $45m in Series B funding led by Accomplice.

France based banking-as-a-service platform raised €16m in Series A funding led by Accel.

San Francisco based cybersecurity insurance provider raised $205m in Series E funding led by Durable Capital, T. Rowe Price and Whale...

India based BNPL startup raised $50m in new funding led by Lightrock India. 

South Africa based Pan-African cryptocurrency exchange raised $15m in Series A funding led by Valar Ventures, Third Prime and Castle...

Bitcoin miners, under fire for their sizable environmental footprint, are forging partnerships with owners of struggling nuclear-power...

Wall Street is about to get a new investment bank, one that very deliberately shatters the glass ceiling. The firm, Independence Point...

Beginning this fall, customers will be able to deposit as much – or as little – of their paycheck as they like. Account-holders can opt...

New York based embedded insurance company raised AUD $100M AUD in Series C funding led by Sompo Holdings.

This lockdown side project is beating many professional traders and funds with a career performance of 19.41%. Say hello to the...

Singapore based neobank raised $58m in Series B funding from investors including DST Global, CE Innovation Fund, B Capital Partners and...

Pakistan based fintech company focused on financial inclusion for women raised $3m in Seed funding led by Zayn Capital and Wavemaker...

Thailand based e-wallet fintech company raised $150m in Series C funding led by Charoen Pokphand Group.

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of the buy-now-pay-later company Klarna has built quite the pad... The WSJ takes a tour here.

Atlantico reveals the 2021 edition of its Digital Transformation Report. It dedicates 200 slides of data-rich analysis, primary research,...

During Q2 Affirm funded about a third of its $4.7 billion buy-now-pay-later loan portfolio with cash from securitization deals. The...

The technology known as robotic process automation, or software bots became a critical tool during Covid-19 lockdowns and office closures...

Kunder and its four companies (Nesto, Racional, ProSueños, and HeyPay!) and Brazilian startup Xerpay will merge with Betterfly after the...

Some brokerage customers aren’t happy that Robinhood and its rivals sell their orders. Even if regulators ban that practice, there are...

San Francisco based real estate investing brokerage raised $9.3m in Seed funding led by Global Founders Capital.

Kavak, a Mexico City-based startup that operates a pre-owned car marketplace in Latin America, announced that it has raised a massive...

JPMorgan Chase is deploying a new, cloud-based core system for its retail bank using software developed by Thought Machine, the two...

A loophole in the law that prescribes the types of coins that can legally be minted in the US theoretically allows the Treasury...

Crypto-related transactions will be considered illicit financial activity, including services provided by off-shore exchanges, the...

Dee Choubey shares his thoughts as MoneyLion begins a new chapter as a publicly listed company -- writing that "When we started MoneyLion...

Twitter will now allow people to tip their favorite content creators with bitcoin and will also launch a fund to pay some users who host...

London based payments platform raised $15.5m in Seed funding from investors including Hearst Ventures, Entrée Capital, Triplepoint,...

The officials characterized the actions being ordered as “getting ready for the possible storm,” saying that local-level government...

Congratulations to portfolio company Ocrolus on the announcement of their Series C funding round! Fin VC led the financing, which values...

Singapore based DeFi-as-a-service startup raised $40m in Series B funding led by DST Global, A&T Capital and IMO Ventures.

Singapore based BNPL startup raised $400m in Series D funding led by SoftBank.

Japan based blockchain project with social tools such as profiles raised $200m in funding from investors including a16z, Coinbase...

Huabei will only allow users who authorize sharing their credit info with PBOC to use its service. The central bank’s database will...

In the past, when countries have, like Afghanistan, tumbled into chaos and conflict, wealthier people have either relied on paper money...

Canada based company behind NBA Top Shot and the Flow blockchain raised $250m in Series D funding led by Coatue.

Congratulations to portfolio company Extend on the announcement of their partnership with Amex, which will expand virtual Card solutions...

Pakistan based employee banking services startup raised $12m in Seed funding from Liberty City Ventures, Canaan Partners, Addition,...

Singapore based cloud payments software startup raised $34m in Series A funding led by Insight Partners.

India based BNPL startup raised $50m in Series C funding led by Zip. 

Atlanta based restaurant payment app raised $100m in Series A funding led by Coatue.

Frank is an online portal with tools that help students apply for and negotiate financial aid, enroll in online courses and find...

Greenwich based crypto-fund management startup raised $41m in Series A funding from investors including Coinbase Ventures, Goldman Sachs,...

Los Angeles based provider of blockchain staking infrastructure raised $155m in Series B funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. 

London based bitcoin mining company raised $431m in growth funding led by Paradigm.

While shares of retail brokerages such as Robinhood have been under pressure, they have hardly collapsed. In part, that is because...

Toast’s IPO comes after a roller-coaster stretch in the pandemic during which revenue initially sank by 80% as restaurants closed and...

These changes shift PayPal from being largely a payments utility that’s tacked on other offerings here and there, to being a more fully...

In today’s frenetic housing market, buyers who take out mortgages are struggling to compete with those putting up all cash. Cash offers...

Cambridge based operational intelligence startup for blockchain raised $14m in Series A funding led by Neotribe Ventures. 

While it’s already possible for Robinhood customers to buy and sell popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin, this...

The largest US cryptocurrency exchange said in a statement that it had made a “difficult decision” to shelve its plans to offer the Lend...

London based API platform for open banking raised $130m in new funding led by Tiger Global.

France based fantasy soccer platform whose "cards" are NFTs registered on the Ethereum blockchain raised $680m in Series B funding led by...

Australia based businesses banking provider raised $100 million in Series E funding led by Lone Pine Capital.

India based neobank for SMEs raised $31m in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital India and Think Investments.

New York based provider of short-term furnished apartment rentals raised $140m in new funding led by WestCap Group.

The teens and 20-somethings who steer online conversation — about life hacks, beauty products, Hollywood blockbusters, you name it — are...

Brooklyn based blockchain focused on speed and low transaction costs raised $230m in new funding led by Polychain and Three Arrows Capital.

Oakland based real estate investing platform raised $57.3m in growth funding led by QED Investors.

Latin American e-commerce company MercadoLibre Inc and venture capital fund Kaszek on Monday announced the creation of a special-purpose...

The company will begin beta testing the product with some of its existing customers at select merchants later this year, CEO Richard...

London based platform payment technology provider raised $160m in Series C funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

GreenSky operates a platform that facilitates loans for big-ticket items, enabling brands to offer installment loans to customers at the...

The move will help more than 62 million Spanish speakers in the U.S. Equifax is the first credit reporting firm to offer the service.

The Japanese investment conglomerate announced the launch of the SoftBank Latin America Fund II, its second dedicated private investment...

Sanoke Viswanathan, head of JPMorgan’s newly formed “international consumer” division, said the biggest bank in the US would invest...

Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, one of TIME's 2021 100 Most Influential Companies, has partnered with...

The latest survey found younger consumers were more likely to miss payments. More than half of Gen Z or millennial respondents-- those...

Installment plans are back in style. One reason: shoppers who don’t qualify for credit cards. Buy-now-pay-later companies say they rely...

Austin based startup that helps consumers establish and build credit history raised $50m in Series E funding led by Altos Ventures.

London based reg-tech startup focused on digital currencies raised $8m in Series A funding led by SIX Fintech Ventures.

Palo Alto based insurance payments platform raised $5.5m in Seed funding led by First Round Capital.

Robinhood will give students who sign up for brokerage accounts using their school email address $15 to trade, and enter them into a...

Mountain View based crypto wallet raised $55m in Series C funding led by Ignia and Blockchain Capital. 

San Francisco based credit card for first-time borrowers raised $10m in Series A funding led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment.

Search engine giant Google will not be refused a leadership position in powering the next generation of the world wide web, supercharged...

Based in New York and Tel Aviv, Pagaya operates an artificial-intelligence network to make financial transactions like lending more...

Gensler is a traditionalist in the sense that he believes the laws currently governing the market, which date back to the Great...

The project to link India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Singapore’s PayNow is targeted for operationalization by July 2022, both...

Goldman will pay roughly $12 a share in stock for GreenSky, which arranges loans for big one-time purchases like construction projects or...

Australia based blockchain scalability protocol for non-fungible tokens on Ethereum raised $60m in Series B funding led by BITKRAFT...

Oakland based loan serving SaaS raised $20m in Series A funding led by Canapi Ventures.

Washington, D.C. based provider of financial intelligence and supply chain risk software raised $40m in Series C funding led by Centana...

Indonesia based payments infrastructure startup focused on Southeast Asia raised $150m in Series C funding led by Tiger Global.

New York based homeownership platform raised $150m in Series C funding led by Greenspring Associates.

New York based B2B payments platform for small businesses raised $250m in new funding led by Thrive Capital and General Catalyst. 

Capital One is rolling this out as competition for consumer loans builds from financial technology firms providing merchants with easy...

San Francisco based company for second home ownership raised $125m in Series C funding led by Softbank Vision Fund 2. 

New York based global people management platform for the remote work era raised $250m in Series D funding led by Insight Partners. 

San Francisco based payments company focused on SMBs raised $300m in Series E funding led by a16z. 

It is not the first time Coinbase has tapped debt markets to raise cash, having borrowed more than $1.4b through a convertible note...

TransUnion expects Neustar’s OneID platform to help unify the digital identity capability TransUnion has built and acquired in recent...

People use crypto-backed loans for the same reason they borrow against their stock portfolios: to reap the benefits of rising prices...

MoneyLion CEO Dee Choubey called the initial development "the beginning of the education process" for its consumers during the "early...

By buying up outstanding invoices, the Facebook Invoice Fast Track program puts money in the hands of small businesses that would have...

Indonesia based investment and savings app raised $35m in Series B funding led by Square Peg. 

Stockholm based payments platform for recurring billing raised $45m in new funding from Partec.

Chinese regulators have already ordered Ant to separate from its main business the company’s two lending units — Huabei, which is similar...

Mastercard has agreed to buy blockchain analytics company CipherTrace, which sells cryptocurrency anti-money laundering services, as the...

A great long read from the FT on Joseph “Joe” Lubin, a Canadian programmer in his mid-fifties and founder of the Brooklyn-based financial...

Fntech startups have targets on their backs. Big banks and payment processing companies, propelled by the jump in online commerce during...

The so-called play-to-earn game Axie Infinity has seen its total number of daily active users increase by over 233% since the end of...

Axie Infinity is among the biggest—and most polarizing—of these new games, which allow players to accumulate tradeable crypto coins. To...

With Axie Infinity paving the way, Anil Lulla, COO at Delphi Digital; Yan Liberman, managing partner at Delphi Digital; Jeffrey Zirlin,...

Seven months after Nigerian banks were barred from enabling cryptocurrency transactions, bitcoin remains an actively traded asset in the...

ICICI Bank announced that it has enabled millions of its savings account customers to pay and manage dues of credit cards of any bank...

San Francisco based business insurance startup raised $90m in Series C funding led by Redpoint Ventures, SVB Capital and Ribbit Capital.

Square, SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park will be working on “seamless commerce” as the entertainment and sports industries evolve...

The deal comes as America’s largest bank looks to win a greater share of the payments consumers make while dining out. The US bank said...

Milan based BNPL startup raised $155m in Series A funding led by Tiger Global.

San Francisco based mobile banking startup raised $510m in Series E funding led by Lone Pine Capital. 

DeFiChain will offer tokenized stocks corresponding to the underlying price of listed companies such as Apple Inc., Tesla Inc.,...

In recent years, Africa has witnessed an explosion in mobile penetration as smartphone adoption has risen rapidly. Through this...

Mastercard continues to strengthen its digital asset capabilities, buying cryptocurrency intelligence outfit CipherTrace. Financial terms...

Marqeta, the global card issuing platform, has announced its partnership in Australia with leading player in the digital retail finance...

Fintech Bitso, a cryptocurrency platform, said it will be the core service provider for Chivo, the bitcoin digital wallet launched in El...

New York based home buying and selling platform raised $100m in Series D funding led by Accomplice.

California based provider of financial products for gig workers raised $4.5m in Seed funding led by Inspired Capital.

London based provider of loans for individuals with poor credit raised $50m in new funding led by Force Over Mass.