Nice move! Think was smart when they started that they did not include the female focus in their name, to allow for a broader focus!

Step by Step the Social companies are eating banks relationships with their customers, from payments to comparison to handling their...

The latest YC Demo Day included 114 companies of which 9 were fintech.

* Bankjoy, a white label mobile banking platform for credit...

Customer experience benefitted from digital....fraudcosts not really

The FinTech Sandbox, cemented a deal with Yodlee, the deal will allow fintech startups in the 6-month program to access a rich and...

Kreditech was compromised last November after hackers posted the personal and financial records of thousands users. Though deemed an...

SoFi is building on its success with student loan refinancing to offer innovative mortgage solutions for high quality borrowers seeking...

This is how disruption looks like, great chart and article from the economist

This should be worrying for banks...if customers do not see payments as payments anymore...what if banking is not be seen as banking

Nice article....expect we will see many of these articles on who on the players will win....for sure the consumer

Nice report by Accenture. How the USD 12 Bn will shake up the market and how banks think about responding and what are biggest...

Nice overview of the german FinTech scene

Key lessons from them:

• Define their market space and identifying user pain
• Nail the product experience by focusing on doing a few...

Great reports last weeks from Goldman re FinTech, Bitcoin and implications for the sector!

nice example although not unique of the unbundling

May be think like one. in running your portfolio and business.....but think to many are trying to become one....

Market of smart contracts is Huge, some interesting start-ups emerging here, big opportunity!

For those interested, overview of the Barclays Fintech cohort

For a service that is close to zero cost on a per unit basis and falling further every day thanks to Moore’s Law, a Freemium strategy...

...and the winner is....the consumer!

Payments will be a commodity....question is not if, but speed, especially for international B2B payments. Domestic C2C payments are the...

The New York-based startup uses complex algorithms to sift and comb through real time public data. As a strategic partner of Twitter,...

The bull market is six years old this week and a recent study has added to the considerable body of evidence that suggests most people...

Finally! SaaS and cloud solutions to open up for Banking at scale! The recent financing will fund an a team who will work to expand the...

Fundbox, a company that loans businesses money for outstanding invoice payments, has raised $40 million. The market for Suppy Chain...

In the exchange traded fund (ETF) industry, alternative or smart-beta ETFs have experienced a rapid ascent as investors capitalize on...

Domestic payments continues to move one, with all big social/mobile players now offering a solution, most are close to what paypal type...

Nice overview of Danish ecosystem. Expect more specialization vs. all will happen in London. E.g. 2 of the biggest payment companies...

Interesting overview!

The abolishment of cash in the uk....let's start with having all taxi drivers in London accept cards....

Next wave of Lending disruption....Real Estate finance including mortgages!

Blockchain/bitcoin utilization makes an important, if inevitable pivot with companies like DAH using it to optimize securities trading....

Not really Tech, but interesting article

That 80% of BTC may be traded for Chinese currency is interesting for a number of reasons. Officially, the Chinese government prohibits...

Nice read

Let's see what this will be at least a big bet...may be the revitalization of Bitcoin, although was more expecting they do something in...

No groundbreaking new features...more a switch from mobile to watch...given the small font size...in case of a serious alert consumers...

We expect many more partnerships between governments and Banks to take place to create united forces...however not very likely a global...

At some point this portfolio of initiatives to crack the payment system should work and I guess it will be a snowball effect given the...

Fingerprint on top of a device to identify yourselve via your heartbeat....I guess apple can do the same overnight....by measuring the...

EU regulators voted overwhelmingly in favor (621 to 26) of placing a fee cap on consumer cards, which once implemented the new rules...

How Financial Software Companies are Monetizing APIs - Great article and overview

Nice overview

Great article!

2 Years. 20x Growth. $2 Billion....and profitability kicks in at......?

Ineteresting facts on the Asian pick-up of Digital by consumers. Developing Asia and Northen Europe are best "testing grounds" for...

Interesting read, in short according to the author the eight Big Data Myths are:

#1: It’s Big

#2: You need to apply it right away

Interesting read on the future customer base of financials

Partnerships continue to evolve. Linking loyalty and payments

Good report on the segment all try to grasp and understand and serve

Nice overview and links for this interested in databases

Nice overview chart

Apple pay has 60x higher fraud rates!

It is a hard battle but will happen...the replacement of the correspondent banking network

The Growth capital stage is getting crowded, family offices, Funds, Hedge Funds....

Another multibillion IPO...when do the European Lending exits begin?

The battle for the consumer. Also Visa seems stepping up its partnerships to secure a spot. ApplePay, AliPay, Samsung and also...

Commoidatisation of Financial Services...starts with starts-ups, but than small banks will follow.

Investments into the AI space more than tripled in 2014 compared to the previous year. These companies include natural language...

The journey continues...big question is what point volume translates into profitability....and what if Banks drop FX margins...

Leading global brands combine innovative payment and mobile technologies to create in-car purchase experiences that are secure,...

More commonly filled with gold, the vaults of Spanish bank BBVA are safeguarding swaths of data. BBVA has established itself as one of...

According to a Burning Glass Technologies report, ~80% of middle-skill jobs in today’s workforce require tech skills. That encompasses...

Goldman Sachs predicts that the competitive landscape for banks will change significantly over the next 5-10 years. More stringent...

According to Kenya's central bank, in 2014, Kenyans abroad sent home a record $1.4b, an 11% increase over 2013. Remittances are a major...

Abra (A Better Remittance App) is a money transfer application, founded by a former director at Netscape. Space is getting crowded with...

Google has launched its new car insurance price comparison tool. This move has long been rumored after the company launched a similar...

The tax prep industry is likely to continue to thrive, but tax professionals at both large and small firms can expect competition to...

Envestnet has acquired a one year old startup named Upside, which provides registered investment advisers with online investment...

The 400 Bn opportunity Schwaps is targeting and how they approach ROBO...big question is whether they can still successfully do 6 years...

New UK regulations that come into effect on April 6th have led to Insurance giants Aegon, Aviva, Scottish Widows, Standard Life and...

Nutmeg, a UK based online investment manager, is taking on some of the big boys in the UK Sipps (self-managed pension) market.

How do Digit and Acorn differ to simply setting up automatic fund transfers at a bank?

Interesting to see that Northern Europe is 3-5 years ahead of this trend versus the us with branch closures of 50% in the period...

Great interview with Marco Montes, founder of Saldo.mx, about using Ripple to send money to Mexico. Interesting note: Saldo charges 7%,...

Nothing earth shattering that we didn't already know in this report, but its always good to see stats. These come from a survey...

Last year there was a large increase in UK pension participation driven mostly by people in their 20s. 59% of employees saved money...

The commodotization of Banking to date, mainly attackers and non-banks use the API's

Huge opportunity: Banking software!

Good read and interesting overview!

Interesting map and facts on European Alternative lending space

Wealth Innovation in France, interesting interview with the founder

Millenials solutions are hot these days, Itembase and others are trying to approach same opportunity from a different angle. To date...

Innovation is followed by consolidation, domestic payments seem to enter this stage. Interesting to see how telco owned financial...

Great use case of off and online Id matching