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Funding Circle launches £150 million float of SME fund
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...
Bestdealfinance raises $3M from Kalaari, others
Mumbai based online loan marketplace for individuals and SMEs has secured $3m in Series A funding led by Kalaari Capital. The company,...
Kreditech Nabs $92M To Build Financial Services For The ‘Underbanked’
Interesting consumer lending model, interesting to see how they will perform versus more mobile data lead models such as inventories in...
14 banks looking at bitcoin and blockchain, ranked by how much they 'get it'
Nice overview and description of what 14 Banks are doing with Blockchain!
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When bitcoin first emerged banks didn't want anything to do with it. But a few years down the line and pretty much all of them are...…
Marketers thought the Web would allow perfectly targeted ads.
Nice Article! Interesting to see the high share of marketing bots in Financial Services, would r
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Ron Amram has been in the brand marketing business for about 20 years. In the 2000s he was media director for Sprint’s prepaid cellular...…
P2P lending platform Prosper Marketplace acquires personal finance-tracking startup BillGuard for $3
Interesting expect many more bold on acquisitions either by the banks or large platforms
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BillGuard, the crowdsourced security app for personal finance, has been acquired by peer-to-peer lending giant Prosper Marketplace. ...…
SpaceX and Tesla backer just invested $50 million in this startup
Interesting start-up and use case for big data at cross road of Financial Services!
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Premise uses people on the ground across the world to collect fruit, grain, and oil prices. When the World Bank and the Philippines...…
State Street Experiments with Blockchain for Institutional Banking
State Street Experiments with Blockchain for Institutional Banking
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State Street Experiments with Blockchain for Institutional Banking
What are Banks Doing With Blockchain Technology?
Nice overview of the Blockchain incumbent landscape although several initiatives missing...
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If you are wondering why there is so much buzz around blockchain and what the banks are doing with it, then this is the right place. The...…
Mobile Apps Change the Way We Access Our Insurance
Interesting set of apps of the incumbent insurers in the US, mostly nice to have gadgets
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Liberty Mutual’s Home Gallery® App We’ve discussed things to do with renters insurance, but this Home Gallery takes cataloging your...…
Prosper Marketplace to Acquire Personal Finance Company BillGuard
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Today is an exciting day for our company. This morning, we announced that Prosper Marketplace will acquire BillGuard, a leading personal...…
Stampery Leverages The Blockchain To Certify All Your Documents
Many cool blockchain use cases recently, from diamonds to legal docs
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Meet Stampery, a startup that wants to replace notaries with bitcoin’s blockchain. The service can issue legally binding proofs for all...…
Money Intel Wants To Help Companies Quickly Set Up And Manage A 401(k)
Great idea! huge issues and problems for the SME's to get good pension plans in place
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For smaller companies, setting up a 401(k) can be one of the most difficult exercises — but it’s still one of the most important ones....…
CYBER INSURANCE MARKET TO THRIVE, TRIPLE BY 2020
Business are estimated to lose a staggering $400bn this upcoming year due to cyber attacks. And 60% of business leaders recognize cyber...
HSBC says tech firms may face more regulation on banking services
Douglas Flint, the Chairman of HSBC, pointed out this week that regulators in China and elsewhere are increasingly considering...
XIGNITE AND 21 INNOVATORS JOIN FORCES TO LAUNCH THE #FINTECHREVOLUTION API ECOSYSTEM
API's are eating the world....As startups continue to integrate with financial institutions to simplify and enhance processes, these...
The flipped of the benefits of marketplace lending
Moody's is getting concerned...although looking at the size of the alternative lending industry...if this is the only concern Moody has...
Tencent’s WeChat App to Offer Personal Loans in Minutes
New feature called Weilidai allows users to borrow up to 200,000 yuan without collateral. The new lending service is operated by WeBank,...
Betterment entering 401k
Betterment is fighting wars on so many fronts with this 401(k) offering that you almost need a military map. Sure, this announcement...
Insurer Hastings eyes London listing with $277mln share sale
The start of the FinTech European IPO season?
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UK insurer Hastings Direct said on Tuesday it plans to raise 180 million pounds ($277.40 million) through a listing on the London Stock...…
British Business Bank makes £5m investment in MarketInvoice
MarketInvoice, the UK based peer-to-peer business lender, announced that it has facilitated over £500 million in funding for high-growth...
Tech Firms Venture Into New Territory: Lending Armed with financial data on small businesses, Intuit
Intuit's QuickBooks has teamed up with OnDeck, UPS has united with Kabbage, and Square has partnered with Victory Park to provide small...
Aspiration Closes $15.5 Million In Series A Funding Led By Renren
Aspiration, brings a social conscious to finance. The financial advisor combines making money and making a difference. Aspiration closed...
Symphony Launches Content Partnership with Dow Jones, McGraw Hill Financial and Selerity
Symphony continues to attack Bloomberg. The startup is now collaborating with content/data providers to seamlessly deliver timely...
Introducing Relay
Relay makes it easier for developers to build great mobile e-commerce experiences, and for stores to participate in them. See lots of...
WTF Are Smart Contracts Anyway?
Great article on smart contracts!
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Folks are both fascinated and confused by the term “smart contracts”. Many across the general peer-to-peer tech space have had their...…
SMEs turned off by bank digital-first approach
The SME Battle...a segment with complex financials and complex characteristics
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digital-first approach to financial services for small businesses is weakening the relationships between UK banks and their SME...…
Nine of the largest investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Credit Suisse, are plann
Think this is the likely path, a group of Banks facilitated by founders "with strong convening power"
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The group is looking to channel data, ideas and financial backing to a start-up called R3CEV, a New York-based group of trading and...…
Google Bets on Insurance Startup Oscar Health
Insurance momentum picking up, overal # of start-ups is still a fraction vs. total
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Oscar co-founders Mario Schlosser, Kevin Nazemi, and Joshua Kushner Oscar Health Insurance Corp. Insurance startup Oscar Health...…
Another new banking name launches in Britain: Germany's Fidor offers fixed-rate savings and a curren
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...
Visa, Nasdaq, Others Invest $30 Million in Bitcoin-Related Startup
San Francisco based enterprise blockchain platform, Chain Inc., raised $30m in Series B funding, by investors such as Citi Ventures,...
30 under 30: Meet the millennials who are transforming the insurance industry
Interesting read on the up and coming leaders and companies in the insurance industry. According to McKinsey the average age of...
Online lender CommonBond raises $35 mln in latest funding round (Adds details on Nelnet deal
Online student loan marketplace, CommonBond, raised $35m in Series B financing, led by August Capital. This is a great indicator of the...
GOOGLE WALLET PIVOTS—AND TURNS INTO VENMO
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...
The Bloomberg Terminal, a Wall Street Fixture, Faces Upstarts
Bloomberg's terminal business generate 75% of the company's revenues. These revenues are under attack from startups such as Symphony and
The busy lives of WallStreet Veterans and Bank CEOs
Good news there is a future for Financial old school excecutives! Former chairman of the SEC, Arthur Levitt, is an adviser to fintech...
Why There Are 'Dark Clouds' Ahead for Unicorns
Venture Capital Legend Says Trouble Lies Ahead for Some of the World's Hottest Startups Being a high...The problem, according to...
Here's one way to get private market liquidity
Making illiquid markets liquid
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Investing in private companies is notoriously risky. Most start-ups fail, and those that succeed can take a decade or longer to provide...…
Robo Advisors Continue Growing AUM Despite Increased Competition
Nice facts, question is how the growth is split among start-ups versus incumbents that have launched a ROBO based platform such as...
Capital markets' blockchain bill to hit $400m p.a.
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...
Insurance in thee United Kingdom, 2015: Business and IT Priorities
Mainly improvement of existing business and using tech to have lower cost and better experience....this makes a lot of sense. Most of...
Abra Raises $12M In Series A Funding For Its Bitcoin-Based Remittance Service
ABRA one of the Blockchain based remittance companies...last mile from digital to cash remains complex...
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Abra, a remittance service built on top of the Blockchain, has closed $12 million in Series A funding. Investors in the round include...…
Full Stack Banking: How Fintech Will Fuel API-Based Competition
Good article on what is about to happen and how the full stack approach will likely succeed
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“Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some industry. The old approach was to sell or license your technology to...…
Banks Still Seek Business Cases for the Blockchain
Banks are intensively testing blockchain technology, but still haven’t settled on business cases for it. We see in area of...
Top non-Financial Blockchain use cases
Nice overview and inspiring to see what is happening with the BlockChain Technology
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Blockchain technology has been described as e-mail for money, but it has the potential to be so much more. According to Blythe Masters,...…
BitPay: ‘Silicon Valley is Becoming a Bitcoin Hub’
Bitcoin exceeding remittance volumes
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Bitcoin vs Internet VC Funding Singh began his talk with a brief comparison between the investments in the bitcoin industry and...…
German FinTech: Where are the big spenders?
Nice Summary of the german FinTech Landscape, some nice facts, most known, but still interesting to have them all in one place
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Today, we would like to present our German FinTech Money Map. Our FinTech Money Map is a data base, that has been built up by collecting...…
US insurer warns 10 million records breached in two-year cyberattack
Another example of growing need for cyber security
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Excellus Blue Cross and Blue Shield has warned that up to 10 million customer records may have been compromised during the course of a...…
Cybersecurity’s Human Factor: Lessons from the Pentagon
The annual global cost of cybercrime against consumers is $113B.
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The vast majority of companies are more exposed to cyberattacks than they have to be. To close the gaps in their security, CEOs can take...…
No marketing? No plan? How Handelsbanken hit 200 branches in the UK
The UK arm of Sweden's Handelsbanken is growing rapidly despite keeping a low profile
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Challenger bank Handelsbanken is opening its 200th branch in the UK, doubling its size in just three years and becoming one of the...…
Government’s sprawling financial services empire is out of control, says watchdog
The British state is selling £62bn of financial assets, including shares in RBS and Lloyds, but it will still control more than 50 firms...
Why Robo-Advisor Technology Still Won’t Help Most Financial Advisors Reach Millennials
Some reality in the robo advising hype!
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In fact, the struggles of most robo-advisor platforms have been so significant, they’ve been increasingly pivoting to work with...…
The Business Of Fraud
Fraud is becoming far more prevalent but more importantly far more sophisticated
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When you visualize a hacker, what do you see? Do you envision a young computer enthusiast coding in their basement, pounding Red Bull?...…
Strategy decay: Is there another way?
“Strategy decay” is the idea that by the time investments have been made on large IT implementations and the technology is rolled out,...
UBS looks to build 'settlement coin' alliance
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...
Meet Europe's Leading Startups Transforming Investment Management
Nice overview of the wealth attacker space...as you can see early stages to have a material impact on the industry
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Having spent the last few months in the hot pursuit of startups in the asset & wealth management space with Michael Mellinghoff, it would...…
The Hierarchy of IoT “Thing” Needs
The Hierarchy of IoT “Thing” Needs, nice read
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I received a lot of feedback on an article I wrote a few months ago about changing the way we perceive the “Things” in the Internet of...…
QuanTemplate Technologies Ltd announces the appointment of Ron Carlier to the company’s board and th
Interesting insurance big data start-up
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QuanTemplate Technologies Ltd. (“QuanTemplate”) announces the successful completion of a £5.225m equity fundraising and the appointment...…
Financial Institutions: Blockchain Activity Analysis
Good overview of how financial institutions are exploring opportunities with blockchain.
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Similar to the industry’s first report on the various non-financial use cases of blockchain, our article on the timeline of various banks...…
iZettle Gets $67M To Expand From Mobile Payments To Small Business Financing
European mobile card payments processor iZettle, raised $67m in Series D financing led by Intel Capital and Zouk Capital LLP. iZettle's...
Carlyle, Ironbridge make $60m investment in online lender Prospa
Australian based online small business lender raised $60m in a Series B financing round led by Carlyle Group and Ironbridge Capital....
InVenture Secures A $10 Million Series A To Consolidate Its Presence In Africa
Very cool New York based mobile loans app, InVenture, raised $10m in Series A funding led by Data Collective, along with other noted...
Four Entrepreneurs Talk About the Fintech Revolution
Bloomberg Business interviews 4 leading fintech entrepreneurs on their companies and their contributions to the fintech revolution. The...
CARLYLE SNAGS INSURANCE SAAS BUYOUT
UK based claim processing services company, Innovation, was acquired by the buyout group Carlyle for $772m. Innovation offers its'...
7 Emerging FinTech Players In Top Latin American Markets
Nice overview of some interesting FinTech start-ups in LatAm, several are international expansion of non LatAm
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Clip. Pando covered this Redwood City-based startup, which is a Square-like payment processor that has raised more than $5 million; it...…
Investment gamification app Bux raises 1.7 million
Our portfolio company BUX raised a $1.7m strategic in between financing round, led by Initial Capital. The company is trying to make...
Why Startups Should Leverage Compliance
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
Robo-advisers face first reckoning in downturn. Market volatility shows importance of communication as robos look to get out in front of...
Barclays has two blockchain 'labs' in London and is planning 45 experiments with the technology
Like pretty much every other major bank at the moment, Barclays is very interested in the potential of the blockchain, the technology...
Aussie court slaps $18 million fine on Visa for anti-competitive practices
Another fine favouring the need for greater financial transparency
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The Australian Federal Court has ordered Visa to pay $18 million in fines for freezing out rival currency conversion services on...…
Oscar has hundreds of millions in funding. Now it needs customers
Health Insurance sector also ripe for disruption with value added service for user like connecting you with doctors/ specialist.
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“Insurance is a confusing system, confusing as hell,” says Mario Schlosser, Oscar’s chief executive officer. The founders say a slick...…
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