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Interesting read, and to be expected that one of the new players would end up in the top 5
The bad news is that Consumer Reports quite literally doesn’t know what it is rating here. It conflates mutual funds, robo-advisors,...…
Avant, the online lender, has raised $139m in debt led by Jefferies and another $200m in debt co-led by J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse....
Seems like a logical space for SalesForce, but may be Salesforce is already to standardized and big to capture this space? May be easier...
Looks interesting...but if the US does not follow, with international operations the tightest regulator sets the bar
The U.K. government said it will look to relax anti-money laundering controls as part of a plan to save British companies 10 billion...…
Nice overview and lessons of FinTech start-ups
It starts with a dream. Many startups begin with the idea that they will change the world. In the fintech world, you are only limited by...…
Lets see how this will pay-out as consolidation of this space should happen in the next 2-3 years
Mobile point-of-sale pioneer iZettle has raised a €60m Series D round to help grow its small business customer-base across Europe. The...…
Android fragmentation report: There are now 24,093 distinct devices, up 28% from last year...imagine the complexity....as each is also...
the 5x revenues rule, 30% growth for SaaS....
As an entrepreneur, you need two things: revenue projection for your company and the desired return profile of the investor you’re...…
#Slack#AI-based productivity software with #Slackbot. #MachineLearning#SaaS. You should try Slack if you have done done so it is great!
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Nice article on the virtual assistants. we deal with several start-ups that have virtual assistants...overall experience is great, one...
Lots of discussion whether a bubble exist or whether it will burst, at least the shape of start-ups looks normal, seems more a...
Nice overview of the Blockchain use cases that have moved beyond BitCoin
The concept of blockchain has energized the financial services industry globally. The interest of financial institutions on blockchain is...…
Nice set of insights and Visuals of the AI space
This week, we do the same with Artificial Intelligence (AI). At this time, we are tracking 855 AI companies across 13 categories, with a...…
Nice overview and visuals of the state of BitCoin
At this time, we are tracking 729 Bitcoin companies across 13 categories, with a combined funding amount of $881 million. To see all of...…
From Eating to reorganising, Software/Tech is making a fundamental shift. This one is about the shift it makes in geographic centers....
Smart idea, especially as several start-up such as Quango, TreatWell, etc. have created lots of value by focusing only on appointments,...
New ways for credit scoring looking more at likelihood to repay vs historical facts. In Benign environments all rating systems work...so...
There seem to be 3 main reasons why Blackrock bought FA, (or Northwestern bought Learnvest, BBVA bought Simple, etc.):
– Scaleable...
The growth of mobile phone users, mobile and smartphone penetration coupled with decreasing prices of handsets has made this channel the...…
Filament is a startup that is taking two of the most overhyped ideas in the tech community—the block chain and the Internet of...
Hottest start-ups in Singapore, most of them still early stage and focused on wealth/Trading, Payments/Blockchain, which is also a...
Nice overview of the unicorns, also some big ones missing...
Unicorns abound in fintech. Financial technology, or fintech, is a boom industry right now, with investment flooding into companies...…
Interesting move and transformation of Intuit!
The surprise move to ditch Quicken - along with the Quickbase and Demandforce business units - was announced by the company in its 2015...…
ZOPA to break through GBP 1 Bn or ±1.5 Bn EUR, congrats!
Peer-to-peer lending — where savers cut out banks and lend directly to people and businesses at better rates — is growing explosively in...…
Nice overview of the Blockchain partnership activities, and descriptions per bank...expect next years not be able to fit on one chart!...
Nice summary of 15 great start-ups at Level39 at different stages valued at a couple of million to 500m
Office space Level39 in Canary Wharf is the biggest hub of fintech talent in London, and possibly the world. It's home to more than...…
Nice overview of the different mobile wallet/Pay solutions
Chris Skinner shares a CNN infographic about the differences between the many mobile wallet options on the market, including Apple Pay...…
Over 10 years, US student debt has tripled to $1.2 trillion...
Student debt in America now totals $1.2 trillion, up more than threefold over the past decade. On August 10th Hillary Clinton announced a...…
Great news for Europe! expect in the next 5 years 10-15 more FinTech unicorns in Europe. Distribution is in Northern Europe to date: 5...
40% of mobile banking users are in China....
Hundreds of banking and financial apps are blooming in China. Harry Campbell You forgot your wallet, and it’s four flights up to your...…
Attractive market, many are trying to win, big opportunity to disrupt this with a Big Data approach and make it frictionless
MarketInvoice, a P2P platform for small business lending, has raised £6 million in its first round of financing as part of an effort to...…
Whilst the EU is well on its way to a single digital market, this is not always the case when applied to financial services despite...
Online mutual funds investments platform, Scripbox, aims to simplify person finance through higher levels of transparency and scientific...
Kansas based working capital marketplace, C2FO, recently closed $40m of Series D financing led by Temasek Holdings from Singapore. The...
Y Combinator startup, Tesorio, incentivizes companies to immediately pay their vendor, freelancer and supplier. The seamless payment...
Goldman Sachs has accelerated its move into the consumer lending market with the acquisition of GE's online deposit platform. Goldman...
Credit card loans differ from alternative lending and P2P platforms by offering ease of access, revolving line of credit, simple money...
PaidEasy is a new mobile payment app that is aiming to eliminate friction in spending. This app raised 2 million dollars in funding in a...
Nice read, although one of the many reports on what BlockChain could do....think we are looking for real examples now...showing what...
Capital One has agreed to buy General Electric’s health-care finance unit for $9b. Capital One is buying loans ranging from hospitals to...
The sharing economy....new open source platform is an attempt by Goldman to bolster its technology bona fides
In a major shift for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the firm is preparing to give away some of the “secret sauce” behind its trading ideas. ...…
Ukraine Hackers allegedly infiltrated the computer servers of PRNewswire , Marketwired and Business Wire, over a five-year period,...
Yodlee agreed to sell itself to Envestnet, a provider of financial services for financial advisors, for approximately $660...
Each month dozen of new lending start-ups emerge and looking at the amount of debt and equity funding they get looks like the market...
The WSJ digs into Yodlee's "side business" and asks the question: Are analysts able to “re-identify” people in anonymized Yodlee data...
In 2014, consumers spent a whopping $6 billion on electronic gift cards, while total gift card sales were roughly $124 billion. CashStar...
Silicon Valley Bank is planning to release new API banking services over the coming months....this would enable them lead the tech...
The press may have been highly focused on Betterment and Wealthfront, who now each hold over $2.5B AUM, but there are many other...
With only twenty-nine percent of insurance consumers saying they are satisfied with their providers, we know the insurance industry...
3yrs after it was announced by Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy, CurrentC (MCX) is finally getting off the ground, but there are plenty of...
China Rapid Finance, China's largest online consumer lending marketplace, has closed a $35 million Series C round led by Broadline...
iPad-Based Point of Sale System and Business Management Solution for Small Businesses Sets Sights on Explosive Growth. It is shocking to...
Security (Compliance, Fraud, etc.) is a massive space! This is also an interesting company!
Cho said Banker's Toolbox has 650 customers nationwide and tends to stick to the banks with less than $10 billion in assets. The...…
eBay's separation from PayPal after 13 years together is a story of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and a cautionary tale for...
Fascinating to see the time difference of the transformation of Retail Banking....in the period 2000-2010, 50% of the branches in...
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