UK Mobile-Only Atom Bank Picks Up $128M Led By BBVA, Owner Of Simple In The U.S.
Great Achievement! Seems a lot of money at this stage (going live in 2016) as well as the number of players active in the market all...
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Great Achievement! Seems a lot of money at this stage (going live in 2016) as well as the number of players active in the market all...
Not a lot new but at least puts it in one article Googles Finance play: Insurance, Comparison and Payments. Think the common denominator...
Different ways to read the survey, one way is that the road ahead is more complex: Regulation and access to funding among key concerns!...
Great to see Nordea part of Fintech initiatives they have been silent
As global financial institutions become more interested in bitcoin and blockchain technology, some are beginning to invest and work with...…
Great space with untapped opportunities and massive financial benefits for all parties to gain: "Blockchain has the potential to improve...
Smart partnership, Telco/Bank was not the first partnership in Blockchain would think about look forward to see the impact and which of...
A lot of great articles can be written about all kind of spectacular things that almost were done...Anyway nice article on Klarna and...
Nice overview! Confirms that we are at the beginning as product insurance is a niche in the total scheme of things...
The following infographic summarizes the average funding for each Insurance Technology category to show which Insurance Technology...…
Nice traction, question is whether the real competitors are the banks or the PayPal, Apple and Samsungs of this world...time will tell
Australian financial tech company Tyro Payments plans to challenge the country’s leading retail banks after scoring AUD $100 million...…
Nice article on the insurance wave! With 3 investments in Insurance (KNIP, Salviol and Komparu) we can concur with the potential this...
The SEC has started to to investigate whether or not mutual funds have the proper procedures in place to value private investments. The...
Getting momentum!
Distributed ledger startup R3CEV announced the addition of three new banking partners to its blockchain project last week, raising the...…
Azimo’s CEO Michael Kent shared his thoughts on the major changes that may be in store for the payments industry in the coming years.
Azimo’s CEO Michael Kent shared with us his thoughts on the major changes that may be in store for the payments industry in the coming...…
London-based online business finance startup, Ebury, secured $83m in Private Equity financing from Vitruvian Partners. Eburrt helps SME,...
CEO, Marwan Forzley, described the business as, "Align takes the payor’s currency, exchanges it into bitcoin, and then exchanges the...
FinTech the world of partnerships! Openfolio has teamed up with Robinhood to enable in-app trades. This means that an Openfolio user who...
Many businesses (e.g. Google, Facebook, Banks, etc.) depend on people’s personal data, but the people who own that data usually get no...
Nice overview of the insurance landscape!
Today we would like to introduce the Insurance Technology startup ecosystem. As of right now, we are tracking over 311 companies in...…
Another great set of analyses on the late stage bubble....
So: Are we in a late-stage, private-market tech bubble or not?
Nice overview and fully agree with the 4 hot picks:
Where is the smart money going?
At last week’s Fintech Mashup in New York City, Silicon Valley Bank brought together fintech entrepreneurs and investors to share their...…
Fidelity has become one of the most active investors in privately-held startups, but it looks like the investment giant is beginning to...
San Francisco based online consumer and retail goods crowdfunding marketplace CircleUp has raised $30m of Series C funding. Unlike its...
Step by Step making in roads into domestic payments.International payments likely to remain complex. Apple will not charge banks for...
The FT has a 3 part series on the turmoil and decline of the banking industry. There are 3 scenarios: 1) is that this is just a blip...
Several start-ups (e.g. Clearbanc) are setting up a prepaid bank accounts for drivers and helping even out cashflows.
Uber's looking at adding bank accounts for their drivers. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) One of the biggest challenges Uber faces as it...…
Bread develops a pay-over-time button on retailer websites, allowing merchants to receive full price on merchandise while collecting...
Curious to see how NutMeg develops, as think a bit of Pivot is needed to make the next "S-curve"
Speaking to FTAdviser, chief executive and founder Nick Hungerford said that this was the logical next step in the firm’s journey. “We...…
Nice overview!
Robo advisor is an online wealth management service that provides automated, algorithm based portfolio management advice to retail...…
Every VC says they are looking for great Founders that are solving real problems in big markets. So why is it that so many “good”...
The process to kill cash has started! TransferWise, Azimo and CurrencyFair are just a few of the important players in this highly...
Mobile invoicing app Invoice2go has secured $15m in Series C funding, with 200,000 using the services!
Mobile invoicing app Invoice2go has secured $15 million in Series C funding. Ribbit Capital led the round with participation from Accel...…
The Atlanta based, alternative credit bureau, FactorTrust has secured $42m in funding. Great space!
Atlanta-based alternative credit bureau FactorTrust has secured $42 million in funding. ABS Capital Partners and MissionOG led the round....…
Interesting space, with lots of potential to also disrupt the intermediary and help consumers and SMEs save time and money!
KPMG LLP has acquired all of G2 FinTech’s U.S. tax software and intellectual property, including G2’s main product, TaxGopher.
Until last week only “accredited investors”—those whose net worth exceeds $1 million, excluding their primary residence, or who earn more...
Momentum in Blockchain is building up! CB Insights collected all relevant data to build one chart illustrating the plethora of investment...
Square example will be one of the many adjustments we expect to happen. On itself not a big deal as a 4 Bn company is still a smashing...
Nice article illustrating a trend of disintermediation and sharing...which required the world to be digital connected...so any middle...
Interesting data on millennials' investment habits from BlackRock’s latest Global Investor Pulse Survey. The report found that 58% of...
Great start-ups in Nordics especially at the cross road of eCommerce, Payments/Lending!
Financial technology, better known as fintech, is absolutely exploding around the world right now, with new businesses springing up doing...…
Seedrs, the U.K.-based crowdfunding startup, is launching its services in the US. Seedrs will allow certain US investors to buy equity...
Nice read on the massive disruption potential in the insurance industry!
Entrepreneurs and investors have finally woken up to the opportunity in the insurance industry. At $831.5 million, investment in...…
Nice read by benedict evans
For a decade or two, for most people 'the internet' meant a web browser, a mouse and a keyboard. There were a few things around the...…
Good read on the future aheas
The last months have included intense discussion on the feasibility and desirability of various economic forms of Blockchain innovation,...…
How self driving cars will impact the insurance industry - Nice report of \kpmG
We are hearing more and more about advancements in self-driving car technology and how it will revolutionize the way we get around. But...…
Interesting article, whole world seems to go into a different direction, but somehow the author comes to a different conclusion re bitcoin
Bitcoin hasn’t received the kind of hype in 2015 that it has in previous years. But outside the spotlight, the Bitcoin economy has...…
This is a big plus for fintech disruptors who can thrive from the openness of these institutions to build stronger and easier tech...
TruMid, the New York-based company is building an electronic trading marketplace for corporate bonds designed to increase liquidity in...
Nice summary, quote of FT steve has a lot of food for thought: Steve McLaughlin, founder at FT Partners, a boutique investment bank...
JP Morgan Chase has unveiled its plans to roll out Chase Pay in mid-2016 with the support of retailer-backed mobile payments consortium...
Great achievement of the KNIP team, we are proud to be investors in KNIP! They are live in Germany and Switzerland (and have already...
Paypal announced that it would begin to monetize Venmo through a new feature named “Pay with Venmo.” Venmo, can now be used for payment...
YC graduate, Razorpay, has raised $9m in Series A funding, led by Tiger Global and joined by Matrix Partners. The India based company...
Startups typically describe their growth with exponential, not arithmetic, rates. Last year Wealthfront and Betterment's AUM grew by over...
Fintech analyst, Cormac Leech's, presentation at LendIt Europe has been made public on Liberum's website. The presentation provided a...
Electronifie believes that the market is big enough for TradeWeb, TruMid, and Electroniifie to all operate successfully.
Electronifie, a corporate bond trading platform, has added Troy Paredes, a former commissioner at the SEC, to its board of directors. ...…
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