Many use cases for AI being developed. We will likely see more innovation in the next 2 years than we have in the last 10 years, all...

Deloitte has recently published ‘Connecting Global Fintech: Hub Review 2016’ (Sep 2016) which is a study of over 21 hubs across the...

Firm to start enabling U.S. companies to make international payments through its service. Good move as the business market is three to...

The complexity of Blockchain: A new blockchain study released by global constultancy firm Accenture indicates that major commercial banks...

There are close to 50 Indian early-stage start-ups in the investment advisory business leveraging artificial intelligence to penetrate...

After two years of relative inactivity in India, South African Internet conglomerate Naspers is on the hunt for investment deals in...

As hundreds of newly minted Chinese millionaires and billionaires continue their global shopping spree, Ant Finacial Services is...

Bengaluru based invoice discounting marketplace KredX has raised Rs 40 Cr in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. KredX has built a...

At Money2020, Bank of America, MasterCard and several fintech startups announced new tools known as chatbots.  Josh Reich, the...

Launched in 2014, bitcoin startup Coins has focused on promoting financial inclusion in Southeast Asia. Several players going into this...

The WSJ, Sendhil Mullainathan from Harvard and Markus Noeth from Hamburg University sent “mystery shoppers” to financial advisers to...

New research shows that on an average day, about 4.5% of people who take an unsecured personal loan go back for seconds at other lenders...

International trade suffers from inefficient supply-chain logistics and financing options.  This article reviews various ways in...

LendingClub Corp. developed a popular way to refinance credit-card debt online. Now, the company wants to take on auto loans.

Aegon, Zurich, Allianz, Munich Re and Swiss Re joined forces in an attempt to put blockchain through its paces and evaluate whether the...

France based banking startup Ibanfirst has raised $11m in venture funding led by investor Xavier Niel. Ibanfirst provides better exchange...

HSBC, BoC and others adopt blockchain for mortgage valuation system

Outsourcing investment management can help boost revenues, according to a survey of 8,000 advisors.

Korea based life insurance company Hanwha Life Insurance has purchased a 4.1% equity stake in San Francisco peer-to-peer lending group...

Delhi-based Ummeed Housing Finance Pvt. Ltd has raised $3.5 million (around Rs 23.4 crore) in a Series A round of funding from impact...

Berlin based invoice financing company Bezahlt has secured €3.5m in venture funding from Fly Ventures, German Startups Group, La Famiglia...

Fintech has been one of the bright spots on Wall Street for some time now. Firms in this industry have represented the lion’s share of...

The new collaboration between Lantern Credit and Plaid helps combine the efforts of two fintech innovators.

Great news for FinTech Entrepreneurs, the big hubs are trying to make live easier for you! Battle between the hubs in EMEA and Asia ongoing!

There are chatbots for retail and chatbots for checking the weather, so why not a chatbot for fintech?Montreal-based online small...

Coattail Market Blockchain PoC are popping up like mushrooms

Great article on a very interesting space that will need to be disrupted: Trade Finance!

The Uber app with the new UberCard. ScreenshotRide-hailing app Uber is partnering with MasterCard and Mexico's first online bank,...

The Chinese government has published a “whitepaper” (link in Chinese) that sets out key milestones for the development of blockchain...

Nice look into the AI of personal assistants, which in Financial Services we see to play an increasing role coming years in advise

Nice overview of the ROBO race

Congrats to Seedcamp, probably together with Y Combinator one of the few that makes real returns. Initial 2007 fund backed companies that...

For a long time, the fintech start-up scene took little interest in the seemingly sleepy world of insurance. Payments, foreign exchange...

The world’s data is growing too quickly for our current storage mechanisms. Humans generate hundreds of millions of bytes of data every...

Trying to turn around a failing technology company is almost always a futile task — just ask Marissa Mayer at Yahoo or whoever it is who...

Just Eat, the online takeout ordering behemoth, has invested in U.K. startup Flypay, which has built a platform to help restaurant and...

Extensive consumer databases are not inplace for lenders to check, but companiesare scrambling to crack the credit code.

A recent CB Insights study highlighted some interesting numbers about the “fintech boom” that industry experts and journalists have been...

This week Goldman Sachs announced the opening of its new online lending platform, Marcus. Using Marcus, borrowers will be able to apply...

San Francisco based online lender Affirm has secured a $100m credit line from Morgan Stanley. The firm will use the funds to support its...

Great Space Compliance! ComplyAdvantage, a London-based startup that claims to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to help...

Putnam Investments survey finds 85% of advisers are using social media day-to-day

Not sure what is new about it, but an interesting medium focused only on Predicative Analytics

Embroker, a modern business insurance platform designed to improve how companies of all sizes buy and manage insurance coverage,...

With less than a month to go before the US election, one distributed ledger startup's chief executive is making the pitch for a national...

For your retirement to comfortably last the decades you can expect to live, you need to start saving now. So it is a big...

The Bank of England announced Sept. 16 that it’s upgrading the payments systems that move over $600 billion a day for British traders and...

A bit of a generic article on insurance disruption, nothing really new, but anyway good to see instruct momentum continues to rise

One of the companies leading the wealth management revolution is MyVest. Anton Honikman, MyVest’s CEO, left a strategic venture group...

In one of my earlier blogs I wrote that we are beyond the hype of blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Support in the financial...

An important question/decicion also for the financial industry given its service and advise nature. Complexity for Financial Services on...

One of the many pivots we expect to see in Wealth. Hedgeable, the roboadvisor geared to you-know-who, is expanding its target audience to...

PiSight, a Singapore based Fintech, is announcing the launch of PiMoney, a digital financial assistant platform powered by eWise´s...

Smart Pensions capitalises on the SME Pension regulation and has shown strong growth! Fascinating space the UK Pension market! At the...

Great news for IWOCA! Iwoca claims to have lent more than £150m across 18,000 different transactions and supported 7,000 businesses...

Interesting round, with many big profile participants and. As a part of this deal, EpiMoney, a non-banking finance company which was...

Palo Alto based free stock trading app Robinhood has just announced its premium feature set, Robinhood Gold. For $10/month, users can...

London based credit score startup Aire has raised $2m in new funding led by White Star Capital. On foot of this new funding and...

Remitly is licensed as a money transmitter currently operating in 49 US states and Canada, sending millions of dollars for thousands of...

Great match! Consumer lending needs spending:) Paribus instead integrates with your email provider – like Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo, for...

Great to see Capital Markets momentum to reman strong in London! The startup provides software-as-a-service products for derivative risk...

Middle East is stepping up FinTech momentum and role, especially Abu Dhabi and Dubai

Blackrock continue to stay ahead of the curve!

 Metromile will use the money to acquire an insurance carrier called Mosaic Insurance to handle the underwriting of its policies...

Jojonomic secures US$1.5M to help Southeast Asia manage its finances

Like our portfolio company Fixico, Los Angeles auto insurance claims startup Estify created a tool for auto repair businesses to better...

Lemonade, a peer-to-peer insurance company, has launched in New York state, where it hopes to take on traditional players through a mix...

The software relies on both public and proprietary data and “processes it through a data science framework […] enabling insurers to...

Nice cross sell also idea for the other platforms to enhance economics and faster get a path towards profitability

Increasing activity of Allianz who has taken a minority stake in Italian digital wealth manager MoneyFarm 

East Africa based online payments processor Direct Pay has acquired a majority stake in South Africa based online payment processor...

Focus on unsecured loans as an underserved part of the market

New Delhi based small business financier Hero FinCorp has secures $105m in venture funding led by ChrysCapital and Credit Suisse. Hero...