8/2/2024 7:47:15 PM Bobo raises €6.5m in seed funding By FinTech Collective Lithuania based mobile banking app raised €6.5m in seed funding led by Graphit Lifestyle.
7/9/2021 3:33:55 PM Neobank competition remains fierce in H1; New report identifies the latest winners By FinTech Collective A new report identified neobank Chime as the clear market winner with more downloads (6.4m) than the #2 (Current, 2.7m) and #3 (Varo,...
7/9/2021 3:01:50 PM Philippines’ Voyager Innovations secures $167m for PayMaya expansion into financial services, digital banking By FinTech Collective Philippines based mobile wallet platform raised $167m in funding led by Tencent, KKR and PLDT (Largest Telco in the Philippines).
11/10/2017 1:07:46 AM Fintech start-up Revolut aims to become a bank as it applies for European license By FinTech Collective After raising a $66m Series B in July, mobile banking company Revolut has announced its intention to obtain a European banking license,...
5/9/2017 9:22:21 PM Lunar Way secures $5.13m Seed funding By FinTech Collective Copenhagen based mobile banking app developer Lunar Way has raised $5.13m in Series Seed funding from existing investors as well as new...
1/20/2017 5:03:09 AM Davos - How finance is being taken over by tech By Gareth Jones Ant Financial gained about 100m new clients last year, taking its total above 500m, almost 10 times the level of the world’s biggest...
8/12/2016 8:57:27 PM Mondo, the UK banking startup, finally becomes a licensed bank By Gareth Jones Mondo’s regulatory approval comes soon after digital rivals Starling and Tandem received the green light to launch. The Competition and...
5/13/2016 2:43:29 AM Why M-Pesa failed in South Africa By Gareth Jones M-Pesa was launched in South Africa in 2010 with the hope it could capture a customer base of 10M users in 3yrs. However, 6yrs on the...
2/18/2016 10:15:01 PM JPMorgan Chase To Roll Out eATMs By FinTech Collective Chase's march towards an improved omnichannel banking experience continues, as it announced the roll out of a new generation of eATMs...
7/24/2015 12:35:03 AM A fifth of Bank of America branches are gone and more closures are coming By Gareth Jones Five years ago, there were more Bank of America branches in the US than Walmart stores. But in an effort to cut costs, 1,400 branches...
4/30/2015 8:47:35 PM BitSIM turns any SIM card into a Bitcoin Wallet By FinTech Collective This is a pretty fascinating play on mobile banking. BitSIM has developed a small, zero-footprint "card" that attaches to any SIM,...
4/22/2015 2:55:28 AM A New Kind of Financial Culture is Brewing in Latin America By Gareth Jones It is staggering to think that with the explosion of mobile devices the majority of the world will experience the internet for the first...
10/14/2014 3:22:09 AM Months After Its “Upgrade,” Simple’s Online Bank Is Still Broken By Gareth Jones Starting a bank is sodding hard. Moving a start-up bank onto a platform like BBVA looks like it's even harder!!
8/21/2014 3:08:03 AM After A Series Of Maintenance Glitches BBVA's Simple Rolls out its rebuilt App By Gareth Jones Nothing revolutionary in this new iteration, but the reviews say it's beautiful! At least it's still alive and kicking inside BBVA.
8/21/2014 1:57:57 AM Banks Vie for a Piece of Africa's Mobile Banking Market By Gareth Jones Fewer than a quarter of Africans have a bank account, the World Bank says, but 40% have a mobile phone. That has made the continent...