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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The hack in the largest SIM card producer in the world, based out of the Netherlands...assume your data is never safe...welcome back to...
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Like Banking disruption is not so much attacking volume but more margins of the established industry. Guard vest and FeeX are doing...
If you have never played with the Kickstarter funded LoopPay, the following article does a good job of explaining how it works
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If you have never played with the Kickstarter funded LoopPay, the following article does a good job of explaining how it works -...
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A perspective what is unique on marketplace lending
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Another great article intro into smart contracts
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The commoditization of Banking, with API's several attackers will have access to core banking functions, which will increasingly need...
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The article makes the case of the big disruption opportunity in insurance
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Analysis of bitcoin accounts show that mainly used as investment and not for payments...see chart....Stellar and Ripple seem to more...
10 seconds to check and get insights...fast faster!
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We love this space and strong need to "silent" background check: Data, Analytics, mobile and Biometrics should enable for many new...
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The Dot com crazy-ness
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Great set of tutorials on Eris on Smart contracts
With several raising significant amounts while having still 40 mln in cash in the bank you wonder whether they feel this is the perfect...
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Great interview on Deep Learning
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Machine Learning made available to more
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The on demand stack...implications for Financial Service disruption can be significant...as the risk appetite for on demand are low. We...
The fight for the customer in remittance: Price, Convenience and pay out flexibility!
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Stellar has a lot of the elements that take it to win, not an own currency (e.g. Bitcoin) and currency not owned by founders (e.g....
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Found Kaspersky Lab when it was asked by a bank to investigate why its cash machines had taken on a life of their own...now close to 1...
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Combining Beacons, Payments history, and geo location via phone should create massive opportunities for new sources of marketing and...
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The battle intensifies, question whether start-ups in domestic mobile payments have a chance of beating Samsung and Apple?
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The seven new markets are: Argentina, Chile, China, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, and South Africa. And the remaining six territories are:...
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Marketing use cases of combining geo location, loyalty and apple pay! Like in the past the value of owning the payments will be in the...
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2015 the year we will see explosion of Lending platform partnerships to make the next "s" curve in growth
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Interesting video that gives a bit more colour into the (chinese) bitcoin mining industry
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Great article showing the challenges established players have in making structural changes. On the surface it is very easy to replicate...
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New style bank robberies in the digital world....at larger scale than what would fit in any bank vault
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6 interesting demo's of Biometric usecases. Best solutions are these that are non intrusive e.g. looking at a mix of patterns and e.g....
Hazzle free payments using voice avoiding tapping, typing or swiping
The main bottleneck for platforms is finding more lenders...as borrower demand has gone up also fueled by the low interest rate...
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Great initiatives! Banks (lead by Santander) offering services at low costs to strengthen relationship and economics. Only thing I...
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The next wave of P2P in emerging markets!
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Chinese battle among the giants!
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Interesting article on the unbundling of Financial Services in distribution, manufacturing, etc. Very much believe that this will...
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Big Tech spend to increase on FinTech....if you add up all numbers see banks more have flat cost than declining costs.....with revenues...
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a new Multex?
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Another 1 Bn lending platform
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Interesting multiyear and exclusive partnership
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Fidelity keeps on moving on FinTech investments, following partnership with Betterment, launched an initiative with Google Glass,...
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Launches a p2p platform, with low yields think we will see increasing p2p aggerators/investment funds, platforms to give retail...
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The rise of social trading, especially for millennial see several models that get great traction among milenials that make non traders...
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Nice Statistics on millenials, think this differentiation not only applies to Lending
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Some nice examples how tech is used to enhance customer experience in advisory
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Good video/Slide deck on the landscape and the ongoing battle
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Bold views on IoT
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Intel estimates that 50 billion devices will be connected to the Internet of Things by 2020. Samsung, which bought SmartThings for $200...
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Great initiatives expect with the significant adaptation of mobile to a point that significant africans are connected to see an...
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Opportunities to do smarter pricing for car insurance, either for attackers or for incumbents
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Google expanding different elements of comparison of high value services and goods (insurance, Travel) and now mortgage comparison....
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Nice use case for on and offline retargeting with use cases by linking to payments or for loyalty
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Interesting background read on what happened
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As part of our 2014 recap, CoinDesk conducted a broad survey of the crypto 2.0 ecosystem to determine how the sector’s emerging...…
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LendInvest is set to become the first peer-to-peer platform in the UK to list on the stock exchange in a sign the alternative finance...
2015, the year Insurance disruption seems to take off...USD 50 Bn in commissions p.a
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Like their branding towards millennials " Earnest - Loans for living lives"
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Growing new market! Just wondering whether traditional insurance underwriting models make this work as different concentration risks...
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The Metronome getting more traction!
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Security will have growing importance and "commodity tech" can be an easy access
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Some nice overview of 2014 key events
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Commoditization of the Banking sector continues. Expect in the next 5-10 years few utility banks and than many more specialists
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No surprise but still shocking delta's....and than imagine if you add the real young Start-ups
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.@braintree's first year w/ @PayPal: $22.8B in volume 2.8x YoY tran growth 4x mobile growth in Q4 $2.4B @venmo trans
Goldman invests in big data analytics platform; Deutsche makes key hires in analytics and data.
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Interesting overview of the security risks
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Some good facts on Facebook payments
EUR 200 million in new payment technologies, for a payment company the definition is a bit unclear "to accelerate growth of digital...
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Revolutionising advertisements on TV, Video, Video on Demand etc. also can imagine if clients enter a branch or want advise you can...
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This might actually help some of their banks to radically become more profitable if others pick up the "face to face" customers. With...
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The FinTech 50 of 2015:
Adyen
Algomi
BehavioSec
Blockchain
BUX
Byhiras
Calastone
Commuter Club
Credit...
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And the challenge will only continue with pressure on compensation, ongoing cost cutting focus, etc.
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Seems cutting cost and using digital as a way to radically simplify is not a choice but a must each bank needs to have.
AI replacing accelerators and incubators?
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Following mixed results in the US curious what will happen in Uk with Google Wallet
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