The world of pension and retirement plan aggregation. With a focus on retirement assets and a natively institutional approach,...

Goldman are helping to list the Fund that will target a dividend yield of 6-7% per annum on the LSE. Retail investors will be able to...

Mumbai based online loan marketplace for individuals and SMEs has secured $3m in Series A funding led by Kalaari Capital. The company,...

Interesting consumer lending model, interesting to see how they will perform versus more mobile data lead models such as inventories in...

Nice overview and description of what 14 Banks are doing with Blockchain!

Nice Article! Interesting to see the high share of marketing bots in Financial Services, would r

Interesting expect many more bold on acquisitions either by the banks or large platforms

Interesting start-up and use case for big data at cross road of Financial Services!

State Street Experiments with Blockchain for Institutional Banking

Nice overview of the Blockchain incumbent landscape although several initiatives missing...

Interesting set of apps of the incumbent insurers in the US, mostly nice to have gadgets

Many cool blockchain use cases recently, from diamonds to legal docs

Great idea! huge issues and problems for the SME's to get good pension plans in place

Business are estimated to lose a staggering $400bn this upcoming year due to cyber attacks. And 60% of business leaders recognize cyber...

Douglas Flint, the Chairman of HSBC, pointed out this week that regulators in China and elsewhere are increasingly considering...

API's are eating the world....As startups continue to integrate with financial institutions to simplify and enhance processes, these...

Moody's is getting concerned...although looking at the size of the alternative lending industry...if this is the only concern Moody has...

New feature called Weilidai allows users to borrow up to 200,000 yuan without collateral. The new lending service is operated by WeBank,...

Betterment is fighting wars on so many fronts with this 401(k) offering that you almost need a military map. Sure, this announcement...

The start of the FinTech European IPO season?

MarketInvoice, the UK based peer-to-peer business lender, announced that it has facilitated over £500 million in funding for high-growth...

Intuit's QuickBooks has teamed up with OnDeck, UPS has united with Kabbage, and Square has partnered with Victory Park to provide small...

Aspiration, brings a social conscious to finance. The financial advisor combines making money and making a difference. Aspiration closed...

Symphony continues to attack Bloomberg. The startup is now collaborating with content/data providers to seamlessly deliver timely...

Relay makes it easier for developers to build great mobile e-commerce experiences, and for stores to participate in them. See lots of...

Great article on smart contracts!

The SME Battle...a segment with complex financials and complex characteristics

Think this is the likely path, a group of Banks facilitated by founders "with strong convening power"

Insurance momentum picking up, overal # of start-ups is still a fraction vs. total

Another Bank in the UK, think is easy to get 100k customers, but can these new banks become really the bank for millions of new...

San Francisco based enterprise blockchain platform, Chain Inc., raised $30m in Series B funding, by investors such as Citi Ventures,...

Interesting read on the up and coming leaders and companies in the insurance industry. According to McKinsey the average age of...

Online student loan marketplace, CommonBond, raised $35m in Series B financing, led by August Capital. This is a great indicator of the...

Google Wallet beat Apple to the payment game by a couple of years, but Apple Pay was ultimately a bigger success. The new Google Wallet...

Bloomberg's terminal business generate 75% of the company's revenues. These revenues are under attack from startups such as Symphony and

Good news there is a future for Financial old school excecutives! Former chairman of the SEC, Arthur Levitt, is an adviser to fintech...

Venture Capital Legend Says Trouble Lies Ahead for Some of the World's Hottest Startups Being a high...The problem, according to...

Making illiquid markets liquid

Nice facts, question is how the growth is split among start-ups versus incumbents that have launched a ROBO based platform such as...

Big question is that is the Banks team up can start-ups win? as the main challenge here is not tech but adaptation and getting the...

Mainly improvement of existing business and using tech to have lower cost and better experience....this makes a lot of sense. Most of...

ABRA one of the Blockchain based remittance companies...last mile from digital to cash remains complex...

Good article on what is about to happen and how the full stack approach will likely succeed

Banks are intensively testing blockchain technology, but still haven’t settled on business cases for it. We see in area of...

Nice overview and inspiring to see what is happening with the BlockChain Technology

Bitcoin exceeding remittance volumes

Nice Summary of the german FinTech Landscape, some nice facts, most known, but still interesting to have them all in one place

Another example of growing need for cyber security

The annual global cost of cybercrime against consumers is $113B.

The UK arm of Sweden's Handelsbanken is growing rapidly despite keeping a low profile

The British state is selling £62bn of financial assets, including shares in RBS and Lloyds, but it will still control more than 50 firms...

Some reality in the robo advising hype!

Fraud is becoming far more prevalent but more importantly far more sophisticated

“Strategy decay” is the idea that by the time investments have been made on large IT implementations and the technology is rolled out,...

This is a very logical way to get it done by having a group or a leading bank shape an alliance, alternative is that a super connected...

Nice overview of the wealth attacker space...as you can see early stages to have a material impact on the industry

The Hierarchy of IoT “Thing” Needs, nice read

Interesting insurance big data start-up

Good overview of how financial institutions are exploring opportunities with blockchain.

European mobile card payments processor iZettle, raised $67m in Series D financing led by Intel Capital and Zouk Capital LLP. iZettle's...

Australian based online small business lender raised $60m in a Series B financing round led by Carlyle Group and Ironbridge Capital....

Very cool New York based mobile loans app, InVenture, raised $10m in Series A funding led by Data Collective, along with other noted...

Bloomberg Business interviews 4 leading fintech entrepreneurs on their companies and their contributions to the fintech revolution. The...

UK based claim processing services company, Innovation, was acquired by the buyout group Carlyle for $772m. Innovation offers its'...

Nice overview of some interesting FinTech start-ups in LatAm, several are international expansion of non LatAm

Our portfolio company BUX raised a $1.7m strategic in between financing round, led by Initial Capital. The company is trying to make...

The Clearing House, an advocacy group owned by the world’s largest commercial banks, has its gun sights on payment startups. It's a sign...

Robo-advisers face first reckoning in downturn. Market volatility shows importance of communication as robos look to get out in front of...

Like pretty much every other major bank at the moment, Barclays is very interested in the potential of the blockchain, the technology...

Another fine favouring the need for greater financial transparency

Health Insurance sector also ripe for disruption with value added service for user like connecting you with doctors/ specialist.