A venture fund backed by Steven A. Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management is investing in an app maker that encourages small-dollar...

This year, while consumers tracked popular new applications for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), CIOs and IT leaders paid...

Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD), announced on Saturday its plan to launch “CBD Now”, the nation’s first digital-only bank targeting...

Artificial intelligence received $974m of funding as of June 2016 and this figure will only rise with the news that 2016 saw more AI...

According to Gartner’s prediction by 2020, consumers will manage their 85% of the relationships with the enterprise without interacting...

Ciklum’s Big Data Engineering team has made 10 predictions for big data over the next year. No spectacular new things but a nice summary

Out of 21 hubs reviewed in the report, the top five positions are held by London, Singapore, New York, Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. 

IBM is pushing for integration between the Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain technology. The firm has invested $200 million USD in...

Major insurer AXA is partnering with Silicon Valley insurance startup Trov to launch an on-demand, mobile-first service aimed at...

Banks are dropping out.Goldman Sachs has pulled out of R3 CEV, a blockchain group that counts more than 70 financial firms among its...

Looks like some regulatory issue. An Australian customer sent us the message, which reads as follows:As of November 21, your RevolutCard...

We are a big believer of the collaboration model in FinTech, with some exceptions where disruption will take place:) Interesting enough,...

Brokerage and social trading platform ayondo has acquired the TradeHero brand. Singapore-based TradeHero offers a mobile-only social...

Circle CEO Allaire: It’s Highly Unlikely We’ll Be Using Bitcoin in 5 or 10 Years. 

Unlike Betterment and Wealthfront which have focused on catering directly to young, tech-savvy millennials, SigFig has been forging...

The city state's central bank plans to launch a pilot project with the country's stock exchange and a consortium of FIs including BAML,...

PeerStreet allowsaccredited investors to crowdfund loans for real-estate projects around the country. Local real estate lenders source...

Our portfolio company, U.K. online lender Zopa seeks a banking license as a first mover the peer-to-peer lending sector. The move would...

The SEC is focusing on determining how robo advisers such as Betterment and BlackRock’s Future Advisor provide customers with enough...

According to corporate filings in several states, Renaud Laplanche has started a new online lender called Credify Finance. Mr. Laplanche...

How it works, once the employer agrees to use the site as a resource, is the retiree signs up on the site and then the employer sends a...

New York City-basedCoverWallet, an online insurance manager, has raised $7.8 million in Series A funding. Most investments are either...

When Hong Kong financial advisory firm Convoy announced this week that it was investing £24 million in Nutmeg, a small, technology-driven...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is racing to complete a revamp of international capital standards before President-elect...

Scott Walchek, founder of Trov, is the embodiment of an entrepreneur; a bold risk taker who has a fervent desire to transform a...

Millennials will soon make up the majority of the workforce and are the most mobile and tech-savvy segment ever. This generation has...

Shares of Lending Club jumped 18% on Monday after beating expectations for Q3 and announcing a partnership with the National Bank of...

PayPal has introduced Siri support, allowing users to send and request money using voice commands.  Apple added Siri support earlier...

With Hong Kong and Singapore leading the charge in fintech innovation in the region, governments and corporations in other markets can...

New York has no shortage of impressive fintech startups, but when it comes to challenger banks, everyone is looking to London.

Some cyberattacks are simply not possible using blockchain, but data volume and storage are challenges for the technology. The internet...

Digital Asset Holdings has revealed new blockchain technology it believes could one day connect the world's most important financial...

An in-depth guide by BlockGeeks. What is Ethereum? A non-technical introductory guide

Some 11,000 participants from over 50 countries will gather in Singapore this week for the inaugural FinTech Festival, the Monetary...

It starts with understanding how the world's poor behave and making products they need—not the products banks want to make. If everyone...

Adyen, the payments company powering global commerce for companies such as Uber, Facebook and Netflix, today announced it was positioned...

Distributed ledger technology will be widely used in capital markets within six years, completely changing the settlement model for...

Fintech companies are banks’ only salvation if they are to fix security challenges that persist because of legacy IT systems and...

Riskalyze, a Sacramento-based risk analysis technology firm, announced a $20 million influx from FTV Capital. It was Riskalyze’s first...

SoFi is solidifying its plans to launch a life-insurance product by acquiring state licenses in CA, AR, NY, FL, MA and SD and setting up...

New York based trading compliance startup Droit has raised $16m in funding from backers including Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo and DRW...

This week, the insurer Admiral announced plans to use Facebook to help set car insurance premiums for new drivers via an app, which would...

The mainstream thinks blockchain is going mainstreamI think one of the most significant yet overlooked developments in the blockchain...

Tech firms are buying out mobile wallet and online payment start-ups to ramp up their payment infrastructure. Growing momentum in India!

One of the most compelling ventures in AI that has been in the news recently is a PFM related upcoming called Wallet.AI which,...

Increasing number of Blockchain initiatives in Insurance last months in UK, Netherlands, and Germany. Use cases are more complex than in...

PayFort has recently introduced a new feature into the FORT payment solution in order to make payments easier in Saudi Arabia. It is a...

Nice chart...and missing many financial services that joined during this period.

One of the many apps betting on consolidation of apps for the consumer. Personally have doubt on how all these apps will fly....looking...

In particular, the research found that new providers - classified as less than five-years old - are being adopted prominently by younger,...

Britain's booming financial technology industry – known as fintech – faces an exodus of as many as 250 out of 300 firms, which are being...

Switzerland's cabinet proposed new light-touch regulations for financial technology (fintech) companies on Wednesday aimed at bolstering...

While banks and other financial institutions have yet to deploy blockchain at scale, some $1.4bn has been invested globally in blockchain...

Citibank, for one, formed Citi Fintech in November 2015, a division consisting of a number of employees from tech companies such as...

And the answer is..exactly the same as start-ups have......It is all about the team and Leadership.

Former Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins has launched a new startup that aims to modernise the back office technology used by banks. 10x Future...

A survey shows that majority of Americans believe traditional banking providers will cease to exist in their lifetime because financial...