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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Insurance disruption in blockchain kicking off, with AIA, Ping An and now also Metlife joining R3
The R3 blockchain consortium is moving in to the rapidly growing insurtech arena, welcoming MetLife as its first multinational insurance...…
Great momentum in japan!
A consortium of 15 Japanese banks are to work with blockchain joint venture SBI Ripple Asia, to build a new payments platform promising...…
The European FInTech rockstar accelerates also in Asia!
Adyen today announced its continued commitment to businesses in the region with the expansion and move to a new Singapore office. The...…
Wow, this must feel like a mixed end:
"After a year of engaging with Betterment Institutional and our clients/prospects on their...
Singapore’s central bank and financial regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has made several announcements this week,...
Nice read on how Blockchain could impact insurance!
Is blockchain a solution in search of a problem? For the insurance industry, there’s been plenty of chatter about distributed ledger...…
Financial technology groups from more than 20 cities across the world plan to form a federation of 'fintech' hubs this year in what would...
Some financial-technology upstarts are concluding it is better to be regulated than not.Take Circle Internet Financial Ltd., a...
FInTech momentum in Southeast asia picking up nicely!
MC Payment, a Singapore-based fintech and business solutions provider, has closed an S$6 million ($4.5 million) in a Series B round led...…
"Digital cash is a core component of a future financial market fabric based on blockchain technologies," UBS Investment Bank's head of...
Coda Payments, one such company that helps simplify the complexity of alternative payments in the region, has raised $2 million in new...
Banking and payments aren't the only industries that could be affected by blockchain tech. Cybersecurity, music, and auto also could be...
Lots; of momentum on the Blockchain front, look at the news of last week e.g.:
(1) UK’s FCA Considering Blockchain Commercial Approval
(2)...
Asian Regulators are stepping up their efforts in supporting FinTech and creating the ecosystems in their respective countries to help...
Ripple Labs has created a lot of interest in blockchain technology with its Interledger Protocol (ILP), including from Apple and Google....
Together with insurtech, Blockchain are the 2 hottest sectors in FinTech! Over the past few quarters, the number of money invested...
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore have claimed success in demonstrating the...
One of the many acquit hires these days
Silk‘s co-founder and CEO, Salar al Khafaji, announced today that private data analytics unicorn Palantir would be acquiring the company....…
Russian banking and insurance company Sberbank is equipping branches with with special modules to attract Pokemon. The modules will...
Goldman Sachs revealed on Tuesday's earnings call that they have surveyed thousands of consumers on what they look for in an online...
The mutual fund giant has officially launched its robo. Fidelity Go gives retail investors access to an automated platform that requires...
MoneyGram, the second largest global remittance provider, revised its revenue goals downward for the year but is hoping a revamped...
11% of total VC funding in Southeast Asia, approximately $345m, was invested in fintech startups. With the majority of investment skewed...
AXA has announced a partnership with Alibaba and its financial arm, Ant Financial. AXA plans to market warranty and payment...
Zurich Insurance has partnered with smart-home startup Cocoon to provide smart home technology in the UK. Cocoon uses unique...
China based online third-party insurance provider has raised $31m of Series B financing, led by a number of unconfirmed Chinese...
Singapore-based marketplace lender Funding Societies raised $10m in Series A funding, led by Sequoia India. To date, the platform has...
The idea of the liability shift for CC fraud was to incentivize retailers to upgrade their equipment without forcing them to do so. But...
AXA Singapore has introduced a new mobile app, MyAXAHealth, to provide customers with access to general practitioners via live call or...
Bold title "FinTech Disrupting Financial Services and China Disrupting the disruptor:
According to Alipay's Vice President, China is a...
Nearly half of SMEs send or receive international money transfers at least once every six months. Yet one in five of those who transfer...
DBS Bank, the largest bank in Southeast Asia, announced First bank in Asia Pacific to enable customers to bank conversationally from...
There is a growing list of apps that collect smartphone GPS, accelerometer, and gyroscope data to determine how safely you drive....
PayPal integrated with another SME accounting platform Xero, on the heels of PayPal's deal with Reckon to allow small business users to...
A Lending Club fan who created a research firm to independently rate Lending Club's loans discusses how he unearthed unusual...
According to a recent survey conducted by Schwab, the top three sources of financial stress for millennials are saving money for...
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