Finch Capital is a Financial Technology Investment firm founded in the fall of 2013. We invest in high growth companies primary in EMEA and prefer to invest after the seed round, when there is proof of concept and there are some revenues.
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Nice article on how it could impact start-ups in Europe
The “United” Kingdom just punched the European startup scene in the face and we’ll see if Europe can recover. The problems that the...…
Nice overview of the ROBO market and trends in ASIA, incl BCG report. Strong growth expected! It is clear that Asia-Pacific will drive...
Nice overview momentum picking up in Asian FinTech!
Over a year ago I wrote the first summary of the FinTech developments in Asia after I travelled to 10 countries to run Startupbootcamp...…
Think you can make add problem 101 BRexit, as this should be a clear opportunity for Singapore...
With the upcoming week long Fintech Festival organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the central bank has named the 100...…
Tom Blomfield, CEO and founder Mondo. MondoHot startup bank Mondo must raise at least £15 million ($22 million) later this year to gain...
One of many reports on ROBO, not so much new...
For many years, we have been working with investment advisors to make the best use of our money. The accuracy and consistency of their...…
Banks have already begun to take action to shift operations out of the UK, but most of their staff will have to wait several months to...
China's Alipay could take stake in Germany's Wirecard, unclear whether this is a rumour or not, but could be a very interesting move!
Wirecard AG (WDIG.DE) is negotiating with representatives of Alipay, a unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA.N), about it taking...…
We are very happy to be investors in Fixico! Fixico is able to reduce car repair costs and claims for insurers with 30%, which is a...
Costa Mesa CA based online lender Payoff has raised $46.7M as part of a round expected to close at $67.4M. Payoff is focused on helping...
FICO consumer-credit scores, acquired QuadMetrics. FICO hopes to leverage QuadMetrics's predictive analytics and risk...
India-based tax software startup ClearTax raised a $12M Series A from SAIF Partners. Backers in its Series Seed financing, executed...
A blog post by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin announced on Friday that an attack had been found and exploited in the DAO, and that the...
Singapore is very active with signing pacts to cements its regional financial centre position, after the FCA, Australia and Korea deals...
Interesting to see if the state driven payment projects will work in Thailand, in most Western countries these approaches failed as the...
Interesting to see how this impacts the start-ups also active in this field. Smartly the one fee Travelex does charge - it has to make...
The research listed the top three threats and opportunities for insurers from insurtech:
(1) Pressure on margins (73%) and loss of...
The acquisition could help Alibaba to steer its business into the rapidly growing hedge fund industry in China. Per reports from the...
Andrew Rose of Compare.com, an insurance comparison site, tells insurers, “You need to be completely freaked out by the idea of...
Betterment, seems to be the winning model from the attackers!
Betterment, the largest independent robo-advisor, is pleased to announce it has been named to the Financial Times 300 Top Registered...…
Company seeks physician to lead planned Oscar Health CenterExpanding firm aims to control costs by narrowing its network. We see...
Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJF) is preparing new rulings for indonesia fintech companies which the authority plans to...
The "free" world is bouncing back ..... or do investors get nervous and want to see earlier than in the past economics? time will tell?
Something strange happened to a few hundred customers of startup, app-only bank Number26 last week - their accounts started closing. ...…
Cloud accountancy software player Xero has signed a deal with US bank Wells Fargo to integrate financial transaction feeds for clients.
Wells Fargo says Xero is the first major technology company to help the bank create a more customer-focused model of sharing the data of...…
Car Insurance I think is the most dynamic and interesting space in FInTech with multiple shifts at the same time: Shift from driver to...
Will be interesting next 12 months for the ROBO players all pivoting and adapting their models to deliver the high potential exit...
London based pension auto-enrolment platform raised the amount from a series of individual investors. Smart Pension has signed up 8,500...
Tradeshift runs a platform that helps companies simplify and improve their expensing systems with external contract partners. It...
Mumbai-based credit score startup CreditVidya has raised $2m of Series A financing, led by Kalaari Capital. The company's platform...
Reuters has reported that ousted LendingClub CEO and co-founder Renaud Laplanche has been speaking to PE firms and banks about a...
The fund is another example of how fintech startups are diversifying the sources that invest in their loans.
A partnership between financial technology company On Deck Capital and financial services software firm Intuit that generates business...…
Expect to see more rationalising and consolidation in the lending spaceVouch Financial, a San Francisco based online lender founded in...
San Francisco based insurance startup Bunker has raised $2m in Series Seed financing. Bunker is focused on helping 1099 workers and...
A former Marsh actuary who launched a P2P insurance company in New Zealand called PeerCover has admitted it's failed and provides some...
Last month Coinbase announced that it would start support the trading of Ethers (Ethereum's digital currency) on its platform.
On...
Jakarta based P2P lender raised an undisclosed amount from Kejora. Investree last raised $500k to develop its platform.
Investree grand launching at Bunga Rampai resto in Jakarta. Indonesian online peer-to-peer lending marketplace Investree said it...…
Singapore based provider of on-demand investment research raised the amount to create a platform where investors pay an annual fee...
Always great facts on the internet/mobile and the state at which it is impacting sectors and the different countries in the world. Great...
Swipe right to turn on and off protection for individual items...
Startup insurer Trōv, partnering with the Suncorp Group, has launched an on-demand insurance app which gives customers the ability to...…
Nice overview in exhibit 1! Main question is to what extend the biggest transformation of Life insurance is not the shift away from life...
Munich Re and its subsidiaries have been more active than rival Swiss Re on the startup investment and partnership front over the last...
It's not often a banking app cracks the Play Store's top 10 charts. But a relatively new app from TD Canada Trust called MySpend has...
Digit currently operates in America, and Bloch says it has grown from processing a few million dollars a month last year to nearly $20...
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