Technology Repaints the Payment Landscape
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Finch Capital is a Financial Technology Investment firm founded in the fall of 2013. We invest in high growth companies primary in EMEA and prefer to invest after the seed round, when there is proof of concept and there are some revenues.
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A16Z Leads $58M Round In UK’s TransferWise To Ramp Up Its P2P Transfer Business
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TransferWise, the fast-growing UK-based P2P money transfer startup that has reportedly been in talks with Facebook for remittance...…
Acclaimed App invstr Launches in the Amazon Appstore, Providing Access to Sophisticated Financial In
Commoditization of Financial service data and research traditionally available at high subscription prices, now more SaaS type models,...
The Battle to Bank Millennials
We see several start-ups in this space, but seems a hard segment to crack
Predictions for 2015 FinTech Wild and Mild
Very much like this set of trends, especially the smart contracts, which are called bitshares, although not sure bitshares will become...
What 2014 looked like in terms of wealth management performance a Big Data view
Interesting wealth management statistics
A Gift Card Startup Just Raised $56 Million at a Nearly $1 Billion Valuation
With the adaptation of smartphones the loyalty and card industry is transforming as well creating new Billion dollar companies...at...
How To Use A 'Fake' Credit Card To Protect Yourself From Hackers
The battle against fraud in a digital world continues
Wearables Will 'Bridge' Digital Identity Across Devices: PayPal
The Battle for Digital identity, the one who will win will be at the center of the relationship...or we identity providers vs service...
Introduction to Deep Learning with Pyth
Great explanation on deep learning
DISRUPTING INSURANCE: THE OTHER FINANCIAL SERVICES OPPORTUNITY
Insurance disruption, increasingly on the radar my many
Kreditech Gets $200M Credit Line To Fuel Its Big-Data Based Consumer Lending Busines
For clarification it is a credit line not equity as many think
BBVA: We Wanted to Better Understand the Bitcoin Opportunity
BBVA input on their Coinbase investment
What's next in adviser technology? Broker-dealer and custodian tech executives discuss the industry'
From using tech, to Big Data, interesting to see how people in the same industry see different priorities
Health Insurance Startup Oscar Eyes Entry Into California By Next Year
Insurance being disrupted. P&C and Health Insurance scaling in the US has proven to be more challenging than a European roll-out...
Cloud Mining Suffers as Hash Rate Plateaus
Mining industry is being impact by CEX.io decicion...am closely watching how this will develop in 2015
Coinbase Confirms $75M Raise From DFJ, NYSE, Strategic Banking Partners
Impressive raise!
LendingRobot Scores $3M To Automate Investing On P2P Lending Platforms Lending Club And Prosper
Interesting solutions for investment and diversification solutions especially in Europe this should work given the low interest...
Big Data Startup Antuit Raises $56 Million Led By Goldman Sachs
Impressive use cases as well as client base, and momentum!
VCs Are Ripe For Smart Alternatives To Fund App Growth
2014 was the year of mainstream alternative lending solutions, 2015, we expect more niches to take off.. that still operate in 50Bn+...
The Best Digital Business Models Put Evolution Before Revolution
Interesting article about a challenge many Financial Institutions face...tempting to do it all outside the core....reality is that most...
The 3Ps of blockchain: platforms, programs and protocols
Great article on blockchain
The legal status of cryptographic currencies
Nice overview...is pretty green.
Banks Conspicuously Scarce in Supercharged Online Loan Field
In Europe banks seem to have become more active with Santander and RBS teaming up with platforms
The 16 trends by Andreessen (a16z)
the 16 trends for 2015 by Andreessen and co
Decoding Lending Club’s Loan Data, Insights from 4 Mn+ Data Points
Interesting set of analyses and facts
Bill Gates Says Cellphones Are The Key To Solving Poor People's Banking Problems
Making the unbanked banked...however not via a bank
This Is The One App I Couldn't Live Without: Venmo
Success behind Venmo
Cap One’s Warning: ‘Near-Term’ Digital Investment Is ‘a Negative Trade’
The complexity Financial Institutions face re Digital
Money Managers Led by Fidelity Close to Launch of Dark Pool
Effort Involves 9 Firms Including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan and BNY Mellon
New Patent Reveals Apple is Taking Touch ID to the Cloud
Would be great step again ahead of Financial Service industry who are reluctant with cloud solutions
How to set up a new bank: 'It'll take you longer than you think and cost more than you think'
The attacker landscape in the UK...not sure the article is complete, but tells a journey
Wikifolio Is As Exciting As Angel List In the Democratization of Asset Management
Low Cost Active Alpha is the “democratization of Wall Street”
How a Fintech company could lose $200m. In one day.
Nice read on CHF/EUR
Mobile Tech innovation
Nice overview on the innovation
What 2014 Told Us About FinTech in 2015
Some nice perspectives on 2014/2015
What Exactly Do Online Investment Advisory Services Offer?
Good article and point to stop using ROBO advisor as has a negative connotation.
Luxembourg wants ‘fintech’ firms
The battle for staying the preferred location for future FinTech
Secret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private data
Encryption and identity management
Hacker Says Attacks On 'Insecure' Progressive Insurance Dongle In 2 Million US Cars Could Spawn Road
Hacking vulnerability in Wealth and Insurance this week in the news
Wells Fargo Leaks Its Ambitious Mobile Skunk Works
Identification and authentication seem high on agenda
Bankers' Technology Desires in Different Regions: Big differences
Great insights for start-ups how to go to market
Japanese bank employs robot branch workers
ROBO Advisory in wealth and branches....you wonder why you would go to a branch to meet a Robot...vs via PC or phone
Google in peer-to-peer lending venture
Partnerships with P2P to drive customer acquisition (e.g. Banks, Corporates, etc.). We expect more of this in 2015
Fintech: how legal departments at banks are driving financial innovation
Legal cost reduction and simplication opportunity in financial services.
Neo Technology Bags $20M As Graph Databases Get Hot
Graph database technology is allowing enterprises to surface connections within previously disparate sets of data. Industries from...
Scammers Target Brokerage Accounts
The Morgan Stanley Data Breach Is a Reminder of the Big Dollars at Risk
Why the Silk Road trial matters
Article that sets out why it matters
Fintech start-up helps ordinary people 'invest like Warren Buffett'
ROBO/Wealth platforms...
Atom Bank founder promises competitive savings rates and current accounts when it opens virtual door
From the executives/founders of First Direct and Metro Bank
Putting compliance at the heart of fintech startups
A Big challenge for many start-ups that come out of the tech scene disrupting Financial Services
Capital One Acquires Budgeting App Level Money
Capital One synergetic M&A
Blockchain 2.0
Good read on Blockchain2.0
Side By Side financials of Wealth Attackers
Good set of side by side figures for Wealthfront, Betterment and Personal Capital
IBM Executive Highlights Block Chain's Utility for Internet of Things
Interesting article on the blockchain use cases
New Clues on Google’s Plans for Insurance
Google on Insurance
Millennials use tech tools to jump into investing
Some of the findings
The Four Horsemen Of The Cyber Apocalypse
The 400 Bn cybertattack problem
Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection
Interesting read of Consumer Debt
Personal Capital Now Manages Over One Billion Dollars
Good overview of another start-up by the paypal mafia and how they compete in wealth
Leveraging Your Social Network to reduce interest rates
Another start-up from the PayPal maffia
Cyber-insurance becomes popular among smaller, mid-size businesses
Growth pools for insurance!
How Cell Phones Are Revolutionizing Access to Financial Services
Mobile is accelerating access to banking especially in emerging markets....will start with payments and lending
3 lies millennials tell themselves about investing
Lie 1: I need to buy stocks in individual companies.
Lie 2: I don’t earn enough to start investing yet.
Lie 3: Investing is for...
Th Bitstamp story....why they lost 19000BTC
Th BitStamp story....why they lost 19000BTC...blog go the founder, explaining what happened
Data-driven predictions for 2015
Interesting set of implications of the shift among retailers due to online offering....for now we have seen little of that in Financial...
The Surprising Facts About Who Shops Online And On Mobile
Interesting set of facts on online and offline commerce.
Here's How The Economic Center Of The World Moved Over The Past 2,000 Years
If the Economic power is shifting east....would expect that Innovation center also shifts east.
Mobile Payments Are Poised To Explode This Year Thanks To Mainstream Adoption Of Apple Pay And Simil
Mobile Payment forecasts...expect to see big differences among countries
2014: The year fintech became a thing
Good article by CEO of CurrencyCloud on the emergence of FinTech in 2014
Third generation of startups announced for Fintech Innovation Lab
The overview of the new batch of
Overview of the Consumer FinTech
Nice overview along the traditional lines of how banking needs are organized. We combine the needs with the tech disruptors (e.g....
Using Behavioral Analytics in Banks’ Digital
Two nice practical examples of how to use behavioral analytics for collections and multichannel interaction management
PayPal Here Unveils (Square Killer) Promo
Following a phase of innovation, growth the battle among innovators starts...which will bring margins down
Sedicii Settles on Suite of 3 Products
Expect to see many more Identity management companies succeed in 2015! Key space to get right in a digital world
Amsterdam is now the quiet global center for fintech
The raise of Adyen made people aware...but the 1 Bn transaction of another Dutch Payment company called global collect last summer of 1...
Pension fund for TNO to ramp up exposure to alternative credit
Several of the pension funds in the Netherlands have no either directly or via banks (e.g. Rabobank) entered the SME space, next to...
The Sudden Shift In SaaS Product Pricing
Clearly SaaS started with the big tickets, if Financial Start to open up for SaaS and Cloud would be a big opportunity for averages to...
HBR - The Tech Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2015
Deep learning, Smart Virtual Assistants, Uber/Apple like processes into new sectors, oversight for algorithms, Blockchain
Optimism abounds for financial advice industry in 2015 Vast majority of advisers expect the U.S. eco
Interesting article....people increasingly value advice+ overall AuM growth = More growth for advisors. Could be gradually disrupted by...
A Brief Survey Of The Block Chain And Business Processes
Good simple read and overview of blockchain and some of its underlying and caveats
Six Digital Myths Hampering Banks' 2015 Strategic Planning
Interesting read, and several of these trends are there for a while, big question is not if they will happen, but the speed at which...
Banks in emerging markets lead innovation
85% of Banks increase investment in innovation, Emerging markets lead the way. Also interesting to see that Financial Institutions are...
11 Insights from 2 Years of Fintech Investments
Nice set of analysis of the FinTech trends and ecosystem
German minister photo fingerprint 'theft' seemed far too EASY, wail securobods
Still some debate about the exact impact, the most safe version is Fingervein, but this is less "easy" to use. So trade-off between...
Bitcoin Is Getting Smoked To Start The New Year
Even the biggest fans of BitCoin are aligned that focus will shift....big question being debated is whether this will be to make the...
Young People Are Risky Investors — And It Isn't Paying Off
Intersting analyses...and some open doors...lots of the drivers of underperformance should be able to be taken away in case of ROBO...
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