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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Millennials are rejecting home ownership across the land. Millennials aren’t buying crap anymore, destroying businesses that, well, sell...…
Nice overview of the Singapore FinTech ecosystem
Since 2014, much has changed and the scene has certainly evolved. One of the most striking trends has been the explosion of accelerators...…
, the currency exchange fintech company based in Barcelona, has closed a $11 million Series B round led by French VCs Partech...
Ready to pay by phone? Here's the 7 things you need to know: 1) A fingerprint scan isn't required. 2) Tokenization keeps your money...
Google has confirmed that it is to introduce a "buy button" to its search results imminently. The button would give Google Search users...
Lyzico's goal is to become the Stripe of the Middle East. The company believes the region's unique market dynamics will help them fight...
Curious to see whether they succeed with the micro media payments. Several tried Millicom, Y-combinator start-ups, etc. Tough area to...
LendKey has deployed $800M in loans to over 35,000 borrowers and raised an additional $125M commitment from its network of lenders....
The 197 slides are worth a read, lots of nice facts...no real breaking new insights
KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2015 Internet Trends report, 20 years after the inaugural “The Internet Report” was first published in...…
MS estimates 290 Bn by 2020...that is the size of 2 top 20 EMEA Bank's Balance Sheets
Marketplace lending – the new buzzword for peer-to-peer lending – is one of the fastest growing areas in fintech. Big banks are starting...…
Insurance companies “will disappear” unless they embrace sweeping technological change, Generali’s chief executive warned as the Italian...
Echoing Fidelity Investments’ recent purchase of eMoney Advisor LLC for $250 million, Northwestern Mutual has sprung for a digital...
Another UK attacker...think we need 2 more attackers and we have more attackers than incumbents....traction of the attackers to be seen
We already knew that GoCardless co-founder Tom Blomfield was working on a new U.K. banking startup, but now, thanks in part to a noisy...…
Consumers are gradually ditching their financial institution accounts and shifting to mobile money due to the ubiquity and expanded...
Japan possesses $17 trillion in investable assets, with a transition of wealth in the next decade from old to millennial and a currently...
Would be a great Kick-off signal of M&A of ROBO as there are not too many with a good brand, so can imagine this become a...
Huge worries ....who acquires Salesforce....at a time advisors get disrupted...think they should focus on defending their business...
Great article with lots of food for thought
At his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist routinely lays out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years.” On...…
MasterCard Send will enable customers to move funds into debit accounts in a half-hour or less, compared to the one to three days that...
Interesting article by looking back in historuy
The road of innovation is paved with the corpses of outmoded technologies. Throughout history there are countless examples of a...…
It was, though, Walker, the high-ranking Goldman executive, who provided the most encouraging comments about the technology. He said the...
Raspberry pi, the easily programmable 35 dollar computer, has been hugely successful, and has found its way into everything from smart...
Top of the InsureTech pile is Zenefits, valued at a hefty $4.5bn and at number 5 in the Fintech hit parade, most of Insurance disruption...
Ongoing growth, still FinTech is #5 of all sectors, despite Financial Services being the #1 sector in GDP to be disrupted so more room...
Seen last months many Comparison Platforms of Platforms, now that the P2P platforms are more mature this wave is coming. Interestingly,...
Interesting mix of investors from strategic Vc's to corporates
Digital currency startup Ripple Labs announced today that it has closed a new $28m Series A funding round. The company drew support...…
Big growth potential! Morgan Stanley estimates that less than $25 million has been lent to consumers so far by SocietyOne and competitor...
"The truth is, if it's a safer way of driving, it's good for society and it's bad for our insurance business," Warren Buffett said...
9 million in EU and US, interestingly more in EUR than US
EU and North America have today reached 9 million insurance telematics policies, estimated market research firm Berg Insight. The...…
While it might seem a minor detail, having drivers activate the turn signal could help auto makers like Tesla avoid a regulatory pile...
Health and Health Insurance map of innovators
We have updated our digital health market map and it is attached below. We are currently tracking over 760 companies in 23 categories...…
Over 40% of online transactions in Japan are non-credit card purchases. Paidy facilitates online transactions by guaranteeing the...
Jack Ma’s money market fund has raised $90 billion in just ten months, posing a threat to the country’s banks and challenging its...
Vouch uses and analyzes data from borrowers' social graphs to establish their creditworthiness. In addition, it also asks members of a...
Five Robo Advisers, Five Very Different Portfolios, interesting how different the outcomes are . I recall that Strategic Asset...
NerdWallet, the online tools platform that helps customers understand how to make better financial decisions, has raised $64m in a...
Robo advisors are becoming commonplace thanks to their considerably cheaper offerings than those provided by human wealth managers. The...
Not sure the regulation is per se bad, the more they are treated like Banks the more the attackers get the "trust" to the larger...
Cyber security the biggest threat to the digital revolution
The DTCC reports rising concern about cyber crime US post-trade utility the DTCC is reporting that almost half of the respondents in...…
Financials at lowest end of trust score...trust is at the core of the competitive edge of Financials....not efficiency or customer...
Residential and Commercial Real estate could be very well next areas to see mega disruption although harder nut to crack, especially as...
Moven has a nice momentum working on PR! Following the partnership with Accenture now also integration with PayPal. Not sure why each of...
Great report from BCG on the impact of digital on I-Banking. The report suggests that partnerships with traditional technology vendors,...
Let's see how much space PayPal can grap back on what should have been its natural teritory to expand as a front runner in innovation in...
Looking back the unicorns were in lending in payments. Where will they be in 5 years from now? Cost reduction, Insurance, Security? Also...
Interesting the role Accenture plays in the ecosystem...what if moven turns out not to be the right option...how do you show you are...
The Battle for 1 Bn customers....At the end of 2014, 185 million users had deposited 578.9 billion yuan ($93 billion) into Alibaba’s...
Lets see when the "talk" becomes "walk"
Blockchain technology has the potential to reduce costs, improve product offerings and increase speed for banks, according to the most...…
Real Estate Finance Marketplaces could be the next big thing, complexity seems the emotional aspect of mortgages. Time will tell, what...
Love these type of companies, everybody wins: The company now has $50 billion in active user loans under management, up from $20 billion...
Great article!
The API Opportunity in Banking APIs in Financial Services have been in the news lately. In the recently released report by the...…
Financial Services featured as one of the key industries to be overturned by startups going forward. Shows we are still early stage!
If we can learn anything from the inaugural Next Billion-Dollar Startup List, it’s that no industry is safe from the possibility, and...…
BitSIM has developed a small, zero-footprint "card" that attaches to any SIM, turning it into a bitcoin wallet that permits user to...
SyndicateRoom is the newest example of a new style of early stage investment vehicles. In essence, SyndicateRoom uses partnerships in...
Twitter's stock price drops 20% in an hour! Selerity maintains that it didn't hack into anything; it simply found the information on...
Many smaller financial services firms, registered investment advisers, insurance agents should pay attention to this important change....
In the same period as announcing a partnership with ZOPA, expect many more partnerships coming up
Uber signage inside the company's office. Taxi disrupting start-up Uber has already formed partnerships with companies as diverse as...…
itBit has been one of the bitcoin companies to watch over the last year because of how fast they've acquired capital and their rapid BD...
Rob Forreger is the co-founder of Personal Capital and NextCapital. In this article, Rob provides perspectives on what the emerging...
Abaris, the only platform in the US that provides a real-time comparison for retail annuity products, More importantly, the platform...
Capital One CEO, Richard Fairbank is encouraging his bank to think more like a tech company and less like a Bank.
Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank knows. “We’re going to need to think more like technology companies and maybe a little less like banks,”...…
MX is much like MINT and Simple, but seems to get more traction, and might expand more overseas!
MX will be looking to build out its...
The San Francisco-based provider of automated savings tools raises $11.3 million in a Series A round. The company helps consumers save...
Circle a great start-up, have a look at the company if you have not done so! Also interesting to see that Goldman in the last 12 months...
This is an interesting exploratory piece by Lendit organiser Jason Jones. He put pen to paper after being asked the question "Where...
Affirm, the company that Max Levchin started to provide installment loans to consumers at the point of sale, has raised $275 million in...
Robinhood, the mobile-first financial brokerage, is leveraging technology to allow users to buys and sell stock without being charged a...
After the success of betting websites (DraftKings and FanDuel) there are now companies developing fantasy games focused on stock...
Nice overview of FinTech, although not really something new in here
A wave of startups is changing finance—for the better IN THE years since the crash of 2007-08, policymakers have concentrated on...…
Charlie Shrem, the founder of the bitcoin exchange BitInstant, began his 24 month prison sentence last month. Shrem was charged with...
Finance Logix, the financial planning software provider, was acquired by Envestnet for $30m. Expect to see many of the 20-50m...
Following the start-up LaunchPad of MasterCard, the innovation hubs of UBS, BBVA, Santander, etc. now also Visa has a hub....next to...
Startups and established firms alike are creating low-cost ways to offer wealth management advice using rules-based algorithms.
Here’s how to choose among automated investment services from startups such as Betterment and financial giants like Vanguard. In the...…
Interesting model fixing a problem by making alternative assets more accessible.
In what may be one of its first investments in a Series A round, the investment firm KKR has pulled from its $98.6 billion in assets...…
Great move by GS! The direct model is more profitable if you do it well than the marketplace model. Curious to see how GS will do the...
Great Article on the shift of talent and similarities how Finance can be disrupted!
IF ANYTHING COULD BENEFIT FROM BETTER DESIGN, IT'S ONLINE FINANCE, SAYS KATE ARONOWITZ, WEALTHFRONT'S NEW VP OF DESIGN. Last week,...…
Somehow positioned as insurance, but feel more a HR/Admin business, anyway is it an amazing success!
Zenefits today said it has raised $500 million in a round led by Fidelity and TPG at a whopping $4.5 billion valuation. The company,...…
Great move, and expect many more partnerships in P2P lending to continue to accelerate growth!
Uber has struck a deal with peer-to-peer lender Zopa to offer its London-based drivers financing for new cars. The deal will see drivers...…
Nice article on P2P lending!
SAVERS DO NOT get much in the way of interest from their banks these days. But a different logic seems to apply to borrowers, who still...…
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