Great article also for executive of listed companies. Economist explores the trend of companies staying private longer and how founders...

San Francisco based financial education and empowerment platform has raised an additional $5m of Series A financing from former Citigroup...

California based enterprise health services platform has raised $81m of Series C financing, led by Google Ventures. The company is...

As TechCrunch points out Instead of playing catch up with good old brick-and-mortar banks, Number26 (German banking start-up) is...

Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche revealed some of the alternative data sets that the online lender uses to evaluate credit. If you use...

Partnership that allows individuals to invest as little as $250 in initial public offerings, is a step toward opening up IPOs, which...

Morgan Stanley's Wealth Management President Gregory Fleming hinted recently that the firm was building it's own digital offering. Their...

SecondMarket was founded in 2004 and has gone through several iterations of its business. An early pioneer in the private secondary...

Chicago based online small business insurance provider has raised $31m of private equity financing, led by Ok HC/FT. The company is the...

A great story of how KKR's star manager Scott Nuttall convinced Brooklyn born Frank Bisignano to leave JPMC and join him in helping dig...

Fully agree, and great interview!

Massive space, with lots of players trying to disrupt at the same time... Poynt....has not even started to ship and added USD 28m extra...

Smart partnership! Expect much more to see these type of collaborations in the ecosystem. Big question is of course exclusivity and...

20 Bn requires continuation of a lot of secret work!

GS CIO interview on how software is eating Finance

The FT explores how BlackRock are trying to tap into Google (Deep Mind) and combine the best techniques from machine learning and systems...

Fair Isaac and TransUnion are working on rolling out new credit scores, tackling the 26 million "credit invisible" individuals that do...

California based InvestCloud, a cloud-based solution for global investment advisors, raised $45m in growth equity funding led by FTV...

Markit has launched a new service called Know Your Third Party, or KY3P. The aim is to create a central repository for information...

Every big profit pool gets disrupted at some point...time for Bloomberg...

Moven wants to move consumer banking to the smartphone.

Expect to see many more lending mobile lead models in Asia and Africa!

How a apple payment transaction works...

Impressive list and interesting to see the mix of strategic and institutional investors

The FinTech bubble...of course there are many companies that should not get either big amounts of money or high valuations, but looking...

Nice article, given the year Worlpay and its underlying companies are founded, not sure this qualifies as a start-up in FinTech...also as...

Viber a great company! Viber has 606 million users worldwide, up from 460 million in November 2014, according to the company. So if it is...

Following stagnation comes consolidation....who knows what the role of ATMs will be in 10 years from now? May be gone, may be...

Bulge bracket banks in the UK like Barclays and HSBC are still generating single digit ROE, whilst more entrepreneiurial Challenger Banks...

The global hunt for yield has tempted Dutch pension funds to work with private mortgage origination funds "regiepartijen" to originate...

Chicago based online lender Avant has raised $325m of private financing, led by General Atlantic Partners. Valuation on the deal is $2bn,...

The company closed a $5.9m venture round. The round was led by QED, with participation from Victory Park, Fifth Street Asset Management,...

This week, 21 Inc. unveiled its Bitcoin computer and left many thinking "Was that it?" For $399, 21 Inc will sell you a tiny computer...

With Chip and PIN EMV cards ubiquitous in almost every other country around the world, US banks (except first Niagara and Target) have...

Nice overview of the Israeli FinTech market

Not sure the network effects are as strong as in other marketplaces, but to date, marketplace lending definitely has been a...

Great read on blockchain and Banks!

Everything that is very profitable will eventually get disrupted...including Google. Symphony is a great story and company how to attack...