1/5/2023 12:54:24 PM Ant gets approval to expand its consumer finance business By Sarah Wolter The China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission said it approved Ant Group’s request to increase the amount of registered capital...
4/1/2022 4:45:14 PM Leal raises $10m in Series A funding By Samantha Wulfson Colombia based consumer fintech company raised $10m in Series A funding led by Rakuten Capital and IDC Ventures.
10/2/2020 2:24:40 PM Goldman Sachs to buy GM credit card business for $2.5 bn By Carlos Alonso Torras GS is buying General Motors’ credit card business, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the bank’s second big-name...
8/28/2020 12:18:03 AM Nerdwallet acquires UK’s Know Your Money as it expands outside the US By FinTech Collective Know Your Money is the U.K.’s largest financial products comparison site serving some 5m consumers and 1.2m businesses. The acquisition...
5/29/2020 2:08:13 PM GoBear raises $17m to expand its consumer financial services for Asian markets By Faisal Kawar Singapore consumer comparison site for financial products raised $17m from Walvis Participaties and Aegon N.V.
5/1/2020 12:18:06 PM Amid stock market turbulence, investing app Stash raises $112m led by LendingTree By Faisal Kawar New York based consumer finance and savings app raised $112m in a strategic round of funding from LendingTree. Stash has continued to...
8/18/2017 7:07:31 PM Why fintech startups love advertising on the New York City subway By FinTech Collective Consumer fintech startups such as Transferwise are finding in increasing ROI on their subway marketing spend relative to other channels.
3/2/2017 8:59:39 PM Zibby secures $150m Series B By FinTech Collective New York based consumer financing startup Zibby has raised $150m Series B led by Victory Park Capital. Zibby provides retailers with a...
5/15/2015 12:32:01 PM NerdWallet raises monster Series A By FinTech Collective NerdWallet, the online tools platform that helps customers understand how to make better financial decisions, has raised $64m in a Series...
3/27/2015 2:45:07 PM Credit scoring startup Kreditech faced security breach By FinTech Collective Kreditech, which uses big data to create a live credit score for micro-loans, was compromised last November after hackers posted the...
1/24/2015 12:22:32 AM Kreditech secures $200M credit line from Victory Park Capital By FinTech Collective Kreditech is a Germany-based consumer finance startup that focuses on lending money to consumers with little or no credit history,...
1/7/2015 7:02:27 PM Vouch Helps Lower Interest Rates On Loans By Leveraging Your Social Network By Gareth Jones Vouch looks at a number of explicit and implicit data points to determine what interest rate it offers a borrower using this social data,...
1/6/2015 4:27:46 AM Inside the dark, Labyrinthine and extremely lucrative world of consumer debt collection By Gareth Jones What a fascinating read about an industry with some astronimical profit margins - the numbers speak for themselves. From 2006 to 2009,...