7/8/2024 3:40:03 PM FreeBnk raises $3m in Seed funding By FinTech Collective Lithuania based hybrid crypto banking app raised $3m in Seed funding led by Founderheads.
6/18/2021 6:33:05 PM JPMorgan buys investment platform Nutmeg in UK retail push By FinTech Collective US banking giant JPMorgan acquired UK wealth management app Nutmeg as it plans to enter the UK retail market -- an already crowded retail...
7/10/2020 2:11:29 PM Railsbank arrives in the US By FinTech Collective London based open banking platform Railsbank has launched in the US, introducing a first-of-its-kind Credit Card as a Service (CCaaS)...
8/24/2017 1:24:52 PM Prepaid Load Growth Slows as Segments Mature By Gareth Jones Mercator Advisory Group’s 14th Annual Prepaid Cards Market Forecasts has been published and it forecasts that growth in the US open-loop...
1/20/2017 5:06:09 AM Worldpay founder to launch UK challenger bank to focus on fintech By Gareth Jones Nick Ogden, who sold Worldpay to Royal Bank of Scotland in 2002, is planning to launch ClearBank in the coming months after receiving a...
11/18/2016 3:52:36 AM A UK Bank Disrupter Wants to Become...a Bank By Gareth Jones U.K. online lender Zopa seeks a banking license in a rare move for the peer-to-peer lending sector. The move would help it diversify its...
11/3/2016 2:31:45 AM Cross River Bank in N.J. Raises $28M from Silicon Valley By Gareth Jones Cross River Bank closed a $28M round of investment led by Battery Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz and Ribbit Capital also participated. CRB...
10/28/2016 1:17:57 AM Banks bet on the next big thing: Financial chatbots By Gareth Jones At Money2020, Bank of America, MasterCard and several fintech startups announced new tools known as chatbots. Josh Reich, the co-founder...
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...
7/21/2016 12:57:32 PM Simple is now 7yrs old – Here is a list of what the CEO Learned By Gareth Jones In July 2009, Josh Reich emailed his college buddy Shamir Karkal with a very direct subject line—“Let’s start a retail bank”. 7 years...
4/28/2016 3:59:49 PM Orange (Telco) buys 65 per cent stake in Groupama Banque By Gareth Jones Orange, which has 28m mobile clients in France will now be able to launch Orange Bank, a fully fledged mobile banking service, in France...
4/28/2016 3:55:04 PM Why Goldman Sachs just started offering savings accounts for the masses By Gareth Jones The origins of GS Bank date back to the heyday of the financial crisis. Today Goldman Sachs’s sudden fondness of small accounts is mainly...
12/4/2015 9:04:03 PM UK Mobile-Only Atom Bank Picks Up $128M Led By BBVA By Gareth Jones Amid a crowded field, Atom Bank has managed to mix hipster with grey hair pedigree to raise a total of ~$230M. It's founder is Anthony...
10/22/2015 9:34:21 PM Number26 Turns Retail Shops Into Bank Branches For Its Bank Of The Future By Gareth Jones As TechCrunch points out Instead of playing catch up with good old brick-and-mortar banks, Number26 (German banking start-up) is...
10/2/2015 7:31:46 PM The rest of the world uses Chip and Pin, the US uses Chip and Signature? Why? By Gareth Jones With Chip and PIN EMV cards ubiquitous in almost every other country around the world, US banks (except first Niagara and Target) have...
10/1/2015 1:21:08 AM McKinsey warns banks face wipeout in some financial services By Gareth Jones I think KPMG, Accenture, Bain, E&Y, Sapient and others might have beaten McKinsey to punch on delivering this ground breaking news to...