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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Great report by MIT on payments and technology
As technology-driven payment ideas give cash a run for its money, the big winners could be estab CONTENTS Technology Repaints the...…
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TransferWise, the fast-growing UK-based P2P money transfer startup that has reportedly been in talks with Facebook for remittance...…
Commoditization of Financial service data and research traditionally available at high subscription prices, now more SaaS type models,...
We see several start-ups in this space, but seems a hard segment to crack
New generations of young and technology-savvy Americans face a highly complex and uncertain economic environment with a degree of choice...…
Very much like this set of trends, especially the smart contracts, which are called bitshares, although not sure bitshares will become...
Interesting wealth management statistics
Openfolio: By The Numbers What 2014 looked like for the real investor In 2014, the average investor was up 5.2%. The S&P 500 was...…
With the adaptation of smartphones the loyalty and card industry is transforming as well creating new Billion dollar companies...at...
The battle against fraud in a digital world continues
Dozens of retailers including Target, Neiman Marcus, and Home Depot have reported data breaches in the last year. People who are...…
The Battle for Digital identity, the one who will win will be at the center of the relationship...or we identity providers vs service...
Great explanation on deep learning
Introduction to Deep Learning with Pyth
Insurance disruption, increasingly on the radar my many
In the last years, most of the focus on innovation in financial services has been, it seems, on banking (investing and lending) and...…
For clarification it is a credit line not equity as many think
Kreditech, the consumer finance startup that focuses on lending money to “unbanked” consumers with little or no credit rating, is today...…
BBVA input on their Coinbase investment
While there were many big-name participants in Coinbase’s most recent $75m funding round, perhaps no name caught more attention than BBVA...…
From using tech, to Big Data, interesting to see how people in the same industry see different priorities
InvestmentNews hosted a roundtable of technology executives from independent broker-dealers and custodians to learn about the biggest...…
Insurance being disrupted. P&C and Health Insurance scaling in the US has proven to be more challenging than a European roll-out...
Mining industry is being impact by CEX.io decicion...am closely watching how this will develop in 2015
The latest bitcoin price crash has started a new debate on the long-term viability of many aspects of the mining industry. On January...…
Impressive raise!
In line with an earlier scoop we had, Coinbase announced that it has raised a serious $75 million growth round led by DFJ. Other...…
Interesting solutions for investment and diversification solutions especially in Europe this should work given the low interest...
Impressive use cases as well as client base, and momentum!
It isn’t often that we hear that an 18-month-old startup raised $56 million, Antuit, a big data startup that is headquartered in...…
2014 was the year of mainstream alternative lending solutions, 2015, we expect more niches to take off.. that still operate in 50Bn+...
Interesting article about a challenge many Financial Institutions face...tempting to do it all outside the core....reality is that most...
Great article on blockchain
Although it may be early to baptize new buzz lingo like “Blockchain as a Service” (BaaS) or “Blockchain as a Platform” (BaaP), there is a...…
Nice overview...is pretty green.
The legal status of cryptographic currencies (in particular, of bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency) varies substantially...…
In Europe banks seem to have become more active with Santander and RBS teaming up with platforms
Banks remain noticeably few and far between in the booming field of online marketplace lending. The two largest U.S. platforms in this...…
the 16 trends for 2015 by Andreessen and co
To wit, the full list, with links to each partner’s write-up: Virtual Reality Sensorification of the Enterprise Machine Learning and...…
Now also in India
India’s ICICI Bank has introduced a new payments process that lets customers transfer money via Twitter. To send money to a Twitter user,...…
Interesting set of analyses and facts
In this exclusive in-depth analysis, a loan expert sat down with our analytics team and analyzed the loan data of Lending Club to gain...…
Making the unbanked banked...however not via a bank
Over the next 15 years, digital banking will give over 2 billion people an unprecedented level of control over their financial assets,...…
Success behind Venmo
Venmo, Here's what it looks like when you record a payment in Venmo I signed up for the money-sending service Venmo about a year ago...…
The complexity Financial Institutions face re Digital
No one would accuse Capital One Financial Corp. of skimping on its innovation efforts and budget. Cap One was one of the first banks to...…
Effort Involves 9 Firms Including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan and BNY Mellon
Big money managers led by Fidelity Investments are close to launching a private trading venue designed to let them buy and sell large...…
Would be great step again ahead of Financial Service industry who are reluctant with cloud solutions
A new Apple patent has been published by the USPTO which reveals the transfer of Touch ID information via iCloud, as reported by...…
The attacker landscape in the UK...not sure the article is complete, but tells a journey
Hampden & Co bankers explain their four-year effort to join the ranks of the challenger banks It took more than four years for Hampden...…
Low Cost Active Alpha is the “democratization of Wall Street”
I put Wikiflolio in the Low Cost Active Alpha category. This is different from Robo Advisers, which is Low Cost Passive Beta. Put in...…
Nice read on CHF/EUR
A bank can lose money because it takes risks on its balance sheet, but what about a Fintech startup that only acts as an intermediary ? ...…
Nice overview on the innovation
Mobile Technology Innovation
Some nice perspectives on 2014/2015
OmniCommerce In 2014, frictionless omniCommerce was on the cusp of becoming a reality. Competition between large retailers has driven...…
Good article and point to stop using ROBO advisor as has a negative connotation.
Among the financial industry’s latest innovations are online investment services. Essentially, these firms eliminate the costly...…
The battle for staying the preferred location for future FinTech
Pierre Gramegna, the minister of finance in Luxembourg, promised plenty of support for the Korean financial technology companies he met...…
Encryption and identity management
Newly uncovered Snowden document contrasts with British PM’s vow to crack down on encrypted messaging after Paris attacks A secret US...…
Hacking vulnerability in Wealth and Insurance this week in the news
He hasn’t been doing repairs, however. Quite the opposite. Thuen, a security researcher at Digital Bond Labs who will present his...…
Identification and authentication seem high on agenda
JANUARY 15, 2015 BY JJ HORNBLASS What’s next from Wells Fargo & Co.’s mobile channel? Here are the internal projects Wells is...…
Great insights for start-ups how to go to market
Differing cultures, competition, and experiences of the global financial crisis drive banks' technology approaches. Although banking...…
ROBO Advisory in wealth and branches....you wonder why you would go to a branch to meet a Robot...vs via PC or phone
Already facing competition from online and mobile channels, bank branch staff in Japan are about to come up against a new threat: mini...…
Partnerships with P2P to drive customer acquisition (e.g. Banks, Corporates, etc.). We expect more of this in 2015
Lending Club, the world’s biggest peer-to-peer lender, has launched a landmark tie-up with Google to provide small business loans to the...…
Legal cost reduction and simplication opportunity in financial services.
With tech startups playing an integral role in the future of banking, innovation on the legal front can help unlock vast opportunities ...…
Graph database technology is allowing enterprises to surface connections within previously disparate sets of data. Industries from...
The Morgan Stanley Data Breach Is a Reminder of the Big Dollars at Risk
When a client emailed Steven Dudash to say he and his family had been robbed in London, the Chicago-based financial adviser’s first...…
Article that sets out why it matters
A courtroom sketch of Ross William Ulbricht during an appearance at Federal Court more than a year ago in San Francisco. Vicki...…
ROBO/Wealth platforms...
A free platform, which is giving away investment formulas based on the strategies used by multi-millionaire investors, is hoping to...…
From the executives/founders of First Direct and Metro Bank
1. Founder says digital bank will open in second-half of 2015 2. Will offer top savings rates because of low operating costs 3. More...…
A Big challenge for many start-ups that come out of the tech scene disrupting Financial Services
Taylor Wessing lawyer Jonathan Rogers gives fintech startups some advice on what boxes they need to tick to ensure growth and success in...…
Capital One synergetic M&A
Capital One has acquired San Francisco-based money management app, Level Money, the companies are announcing this morning. The app, which...…
Good read on Blockchain2.0
From 2008 to date, no other technology has been the subject of such fervent debate. Irrespective of your opinion, the rise in popularity...…
Good set of side by side figures for Wealthfront, Betterment and Personal Capital
Personal Capital Crosses $1B AUM As Tech-Augmented-Human Advisor Revenue Outpaces All Other Robo-Advisors Combined available to...…
Interesting article on the blockchain use cases
Precisely what the so-called "Internet of Things" will look like five or ten years from now is difficult to say, but it’s not out of the...…
Google on Insurance
The Google Compare auto insurance shopping site has been up and running in the United Kingdom for two years. The insurance industry...…
Some of the findings
The 400 Bn cybertattack problem
Shlomi Boutnaru is the CTO and co-founder of predictive cyber-security startup CyActive. If 2014 did anything good for cybersecurity,...…
Interesting read of Consumer Debt
In the murky world of unpaid-bills, a banker and an ex-con can make a fortune — if they don’t run into too many crooks. So how, Siegel...…
Good overview of another start-up by the paypal mafia and how they compete in wealth
The investing world has been slow to change – from branches and offices to online access – from once-a-quarter paper statements to...…
Another start-up from the PayPal maffia
Vouch Financial, a social lending startup founded by ex-PayPal and ex-Prosper alumni offering customers loans with lower interest rates,...…
Growth pools for insurance!
More than 3,000 American businesses were hacked last year, many of them small and midsize firms that are often less protected than their...…
Mobile is accelerating access to banking especially in emerging markets....will start with payments and lending
Across the Global North, online banking solidifies its dominance and apps like Venmo simplify mobile payments. In the Global South,...…
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...blog go the founder, explaining what happened
WHAT HAPPENED? On January 4th, some of Bitstamp’s operational wallets were compromised, resulting in a loss of less than 19,000 BTC....…
Interesting set of implications of the shift among retailers due to online offering....for now we have seen little of that in Financial...
Interesting set of facts on online and offline commerce.
COOPER SMITH JAN. 9, 2015, 2:15 PM 634 FACEBOOK LINKEDIN TWITTER GOOGLE+ PRINT EMAIL BI Intelligence In the first...…
If the Economic power is shifting east....would expect that Innovation center also shifts east.
While the US has recently seen signs of impressive economic acceleration, one of the most important long-term trends of the 21st century...…
Mobile Payment forecasts...expect to see big differences among countries
Mobile payments — the use of phones to complete transactions in stores instead of cash and physical card swipes — are going to grow much...…
Good article by CEO of CurrencyCloud on the emergence of FinTech in 2014
STORY SUMMARY Fintech had an impressive year in 2014 and looks to continue to grow in 2015. Mike Laven looks at developments such as the...…
The overview of the new batch of
Hot on the heels of a barnstorming year for fintech, the next seven startups to enter Accenture’s Fintech Innovation Lab have been...…
Nice overview along the traditional lines of how banking needs are organized. We combine the needs with the tech disruptors (e.g....
Two nice practical examples of how to use behavioral analytics for collections and multichannel interaction management
Many banks plan to further invest in digital in 2015. The key is to give customers what they need, not only what they say they need....…
Following a phase of innovation, growth the battle among innovators starts...which will bring margins down
PayPal yesterday unveiled its new PayPal Here promo, and its message is clear: PayPal Here is trying to kill Square. Beyond offering...…
Expect to see many more Identity management companies succeed in 2015! Key space to get right in a digital world
Identity verification company Sedicii has had a busy year since participating in Bank Innovation‘s DEMOvation Challenge in Seattle last...…
The raise of Adyen made people aware...but the 1 Bn transaction of another Dutch Payment company called global collect last summer of 1...
Several of the pension funds in the Netherlands have no either directly or via banks (e.g. Rabobank) entered the SME space, next to...
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...
Deep learning, Smart Virtual Assistants, Uber/Apple like processes into new sectors, oversight for algorithms, Blockchain
Is your company poised to build the next Uber? Have you started imagining how cryptocurrencies could be used to shore up your company’s...…
Interesting article....people increasingly value advice+ overall AuM growth = More growth for advisors. Could be gradually disrupted by...
Good simple read and overview of blockchain and some of its underlying and caveats
This post is meant to be a simple, brief survey of the block chain, from the point of view of an investor in the space. For someone who...…
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...
85% of Banks increase investment in innovation, Emerging markets lead the way. Also interesting to see that Financial Institutions are...
Nice set of analysis of the FinTech trends and ecosystem
InvestmentsPosted in Analytics, cloud, Commerce, Fintech, Mobile Wallet, Payment Gateways, Payments, Remittance, Settlement By Ray On...…
Still some debate about the exact impact, the most safe version is Fingervein, but this is less "easy" to use. So trade-off between...
Even the biggest fans of BitCoin are aligned that focus will shift....big question being debated is whether this will be to make the...
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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