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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A good summary in case you were missing out. New tracks dedicated to the Internet of Things and securing the ecosystem
Running from April 20 through 24 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, this year's U.S. event revolves around the theme of change -...…
Wonga made £37M annual loss after a clampdown by UK regulators on payday lending. As part of Wonga’s effort to transform its image it...
Security in the broader definition is hot: Fraud, Cyber, Identity you name it!
David DeWalt, CEO of FireEye, whose 2013 IPO was the biggest among U.S.-based, venture-backed cybersecurity companies in recent years. ...…
And there it Finally is! Let's see how momentum picks up
The Coin (promising to let you combine all your credit/debit/loyalty cards into a single piece of tech) has delayed for so long that you...…
The NY based health insurance startup, Oscar, was started by Thrive Capital's, Josh Kushner. The startup secured $145m on a $1.5b...
China will open up its market for bank card clearing transactions to foreign players.
Currently Visa and Mastercard piggyback their...
Last year Square Capital last year, the company has issued $100 million in loans to 20,000 small businesses.
Square charges 2.75%...
The sharing economy and the Unbundling of Everything all nice trends. Interestingly enough they contradict e.g. UBER is bundling...
White-label fintech startups such as FIGO, Yodlee, Currency Cloud operate behind the scene, often in collaboration with incumbents....
Nice article on the regulations that fintech startups have to navigate: lending laws, securities regulation and broker dealer and...
Nice Overview, and also some very nice investments made! Also interesting to see what they did not invest in: BitCoin....
But when we isolate for JPM’s FinTech moves, a few names stand out. Specifically, JPM invested in online broker Motif Investing‘s $35M...…
Awesome Blockchain Video!
Blockchains, databases, reification: are bottom up standards possible?
Great to see how Interactive Brokers is transforming to a market place. with the growth of ROBO and general investment trends, see...
Impressive growth of Currencycloud, ready for the next "s" curve! $Some cool facts: 10 billion of international payments and makes...
Think market for Mortgages is a next uncracked market that is huge and ready to disrupt. Given the emotional aspect of owning a house,...
The API debate is heating up each week growing number of reports! Very few however look into the economics of API's
Last week the Treasury announced the deadline of its call to evidence, in an attempt to consolidate an open API standard for UK banks,...…
Great to see FinTech in Asia also taking off!...you could argue that the comparison portal growth took place 10 years ago in Europe...
Making it 2 known unicorns (1Bn+ valued companies) in the UK. Transferwise and FundingCircle. Which one will be the next?
Funding Circle — a London-based peer-to-peer platform for small businesses to get loans, and investors to put up money to finance those...…
Lending is hot...and platforms are grappling the opportunity to take advantage of it. Lots of this money will go into marketing,...
Great interesting background article. All things tend to indicate that payments will move to zero cost
Costco Wholesale Corp., the retailer that replaced American Express Co. as its credit-card issuer in Canada, is considering a similar...…
Acorns an impressive digital savings app:
The 8 month old spp has grown to more than 650,000 members, opened over 300,000 investment...
This week the former Treasury Secretary delivered the keynote address at LendIt. He expects online lenders to eventually capture 70%...
Banking on the phone! Seems like the better version of Numbrs
Thiel’s Valar Ventures announced today it has led a $10.6 million investment round for Berlin’s Number26. It’s Valar’s second investment...…
Great article on the space of millinials and investing. We see in Asia also big potential for creating in general demand for retail...
BBVA keeps on making steps, but seems US centered M&A for a Iberia/LatAm oriented bank, curious to see how they plan to scale the...
Collaboration continues. Especially in place where there is socio political pressure for banks to continue to lend or where...
Interesting article, for the case of the aggregator and API world of banking. Coming years will be very interesting to see if Banks...
700 million became account holders in 2011-2014. Mobile money in Africa helped also for a massive boost!
From 2011 and 2014, 700 million people became account holders at banks, other financial institutions, or mobile money service providers,...…
Step by Step the Blockchain driven payment infrastructure solutions become fully comparable with bank infrastructure from a compliance...
Great company, focused on a big problem!
BilltrustBilltrust, the leader in Payment Cycle Management, has raised $25 million in new funding, led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital...…
May be this is the breakthrough personal Financial Money management tool...to date results in general for PFM have been disappointing
MoneyStreamMoneyStream, a new personal finance service, enables consumers to see how much money they will have each day for the year...…
Interesting to see how problems shift when sectors mature. From where are the lenders, to where are the borrowers!
Marketplace lending is booming — but where are the borrowers? The LendItUSA event, taking place in New York this week, has trumpeted...…
Interesting article on the impact FinTech start-ups also have on the established IT companies.
In short, and similar to IBM, Tradeshift is building its own ecosystem through the incorporation of third-party apps that compliment...…
Similar one last month with Wells Fargo. If you break down a bank in 45 different pieces...who helps the customer as a gateway to...
BNY's CIO Suresh Kumar is experimenting with blockchain The bank will use bitcoin, known internally as BK coins, as incentives to staff...
Another marketplace lender joins the unicorn club. Prosper's round was led by many of the banks, including Credit Suisse NEXT...
A quick insight from Forbes into how sophisticated family offices are generating significant investment success by leveraging some of...
Columbia students are upset over the arrest of a student who was arrested on drug charges after accepting payments through Venmo. Every...
This will be interesting to see where the limits are in terms of using drones! But great to see tech is increasingly being used IOT and...
A new listed Bank in the UK. Shawbrook targets small and medium sized companies for its loans. Virgin Money, TSB and OneSavings Bank...
That's quite a high pre-live round outside the US!
The UK's first digital-only bank is tapping investors for £75m in fresh funding as it inches towards a green light from regulators that...…
City was with City ventures clearly already one of the earlier movers in banking, interesting article on their broader plan
FINEXTRA: Why is Citi investing in the Citi Mobile challenge? RUIZ: It is not just a question of Citi, it is how the industry is...…
For those looking for inspiration or input re outsoucing IT, please find below a set of examples , incl. names of outsource party of...
Halve has an interesting client base with 83% of its customers bing millennials. Last weeks heard many rumors around this company, more...
Wonder how well the FinTech Start-ups are organised to prevent AML issues like this?
In 2009, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) blacklisted an individual named Kursad Zafer Cire. Mr. Cire...…
Nice app, feels a mix between mytradehero and seeking alpha
There is more to mobile apps than games, and Portfolio, co-founded by TechCrunch alum Ben Schaechter, wants to upend the financial...…
The race for the customer also starting in the Insurance Industry, would not be surprised if later on your car insurance is...
Nice model at cross road of On and Offline SME lending
the company said it raised $8.3 million in venture financing today. The company also said it secured a $50 million credit facility as...…
Interesting article, especially the end: Dimon also spared a few words for cybersecurity threats, an issue that has plagued JP Morgan...
82% of all businesses failures are due to poor cash flow management. Fundbox is a flow optimization tool that leverages Big Data...
GE to see its Finance operations....where increasingly attackers are eating into Financial Services, Corporates with activities in...
Not sure why this is such a big surprise, financially not attractive to partner and open up your bank to attackers! API's will make it...
Social credit! this is how credit works in communities...how do you expose people socially/put pressure on them like in the offline work?
The world goes mobile payment...our children might not even know what a debit card is...or a bank
The rise of e-commerce in India has triggered a wave of startups that are leveraging the increasing adoption of smartphones to provide...…
Big bets are being made, question whether small start-ups can compete against such investment amounts! For example IBM is hoping that...
Neat example of an insurance start-up!
To answer this question, I skyped with Max Steinmetz earlier this week. Max is the CEO of German InsuranceTech startup, RiskEraser. A...…
Good to have a focused initiatives as most of these initiatives are so broad that it is hard to get meaningfull impact out of it
Swiss banking giant UBS UBS +0.57% is to open a technology lab in London. Bloomberg News Swiss banking giant UBS is to open a technology...…
The shakeout starts from seed to series A transition....
Comment added from Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the London School of Economics. US bitcoin marketplace Buttercoin is...…
AvantCredit recently rebranded to Avant in hopes of no longer being recognized as just a lending service. The 3 year old Chicago based...
Overstock investing has recently shifted its gaze, focusing now more deliberately on blockchain technologies that support existing...
Nice comparison
I came across a link about M-Pesa on the Bitcoin subreddit with the headline ‘Kenya's M-Pesa mobile payment service is beating bitcoin’....…
I think for many unknown, but they serve majority of global banks...
Canadian financial technology firm D+H (DH.TO) said on Monday it agreed to acquire global payment services provider Fundtech for $1.25...…
Nice overview article.....Also interesting that in contrast to Snapcash and Venmo, Facebook’s service does not make instant payments:...
And another SME lender joining the party...
Spotcap, the online lender backed by German investor Rocket Internet AG and billionaire Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries LLC, is in...…
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