A good summary in case you were missing out. New tracks dedicated to the Internet of Things and securing the ecosystem

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!

And there it Finally is! Let's see how momentum picks up

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....

Awesome Blockchain Video!

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

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?

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

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

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!

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!

May be this is the breakthrough personal Financial Money management tool...to date results in general for PFM have been disappointing

Interesting to see how problems shift when sectors mature. From where are the lenders, to where are the borrowers!

Interesting article on the impact FinTech start-ups also have on the established IT companies.

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!

City was with City ventures clearly already one of the earlier movers in banking, interesting article on their broader plan

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?

Nice app, feels a mix between mytradehero and seeking alpha

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

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

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!

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

The shakeout starts from seed to series A transition....

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 think for many unknown, but they serve majority of global banks...

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...