Singapore-based MC Payment announced today it has acquired a controlling stake in Genesis Payment Solutions.

Genesis is a Singaporean...

Indonesia’s largest private bank Bank Central Asia (BCA) has launched a venture capital business unit called Central Capital Ventura...

“We need banking but we don’t need banks anymore,” said Bill Gates two decades ago, predicting the explosion in startups creating web and...

Increasingly, companies are looking to capture the Southeast Asian market

“Singapore has established an enviable position as a leading Asian financial technology center with an exciting innovation ecosystem, a...

Online mortgage broking startup Habito has raised £5.5 million from Silicon Valley-based Ribbit Capital and existing investor Mosaic...

A new breed of online banks promoted by tech companies like Alibaba and Tencent is taking root. Will they be able to hold their own...

The Internet of Things has created a new market in the automotive industry, one which is showing no signs of slowing down. Connected cars...

56 firms have either “interim permission” or full authorisation from the FCA to operate a peer-to-peer lending platform. A senior...

Ant Financial has acquired remittance firm MoneyGram for a whopping $880m.  Ant Financial has been seeking methods to expand...

Berlin based deposit marketplace Raisin, formerly known as SavingGlobal, has raised €30m in Series C funding led by NYC based Thrive...

San Francisco based Bitcoin Blockchain security and infrastructure provider BitFury Group has recieved $30m in venture funding in a...

Scotland based car insurance startup Cuvva has announced £1.5m in Series Seed funding led by LocalGlobe. Cuvva provides on demand car...

Airbnb is nearing the acquisition of social payments startup Tilt, reportedly for more of $50 million.  The move makes sense given...

Ant Financial gained about 100m new clients last year, taking its total above 500m, almost 10 times the level of the world’s biggest...

For 14 cents, a Shanghai company will compensate a driver for getting a parking ticket. Another one offers “love insurance” for $14....

Worldpay founder Ogden enters challenger bank, one of the many ones in the UK! 2018 will be the year the jury comes in when all need new...

The latest version of the Google app (V.6.11.13 beta), contains strings of code which hint at payments coming to the service soon....

Landmark Study on Impact of 5G Mobile Technology Released....5G Expected to Create 22 Million Jobs, Produce Up to $12.3 Trillion of Goods...

Istanbul, Turkey based online payment platform iyzico has secured $13m in Series C financing led by Vostok emerging finance. Interesting...

It seems like the IoT has already arrived. How is 5G going to change it? 5G may help to massively expand IoT by enabling connected...

Software from the data aggregation company, who expects to reach $1tn of assets on platform by year end, will now be used by MS's...

Interesting to see continuous start-ups building on Bitcoin. London based micropayments startup SatoshiPay has raised €640k in new...

Borrow is a great company and profitable! Borro is an online company providing loans of up to $10,000,000 secured against luxury assets...

Berlin based blockchain venture fund Neufund has secured €2M in Series Seed funding led by Atlantic Labs, Klaas Kersting and a...

Berlin based online invoice financing platform bezahlt.de has raised €5.5m in Series Seed funding from Redalpine, DN Capital, Point Nine...

2016 was dominated by talk of jittery investor sentiment leading to a tougher funding climate for startups. Most VCs felt the era of...

European FinTech hubs have traditionally been taking leading places amongthe hottest FinTech communities globally. Nonetheless, in recent...

Japanese e-commerce conglomerate and fintech investor Rakuten has cemented its interest in growing its European commercial banking...

In London, Berlin and San Francisco, many fintech innovators are betting against the big banks. Singapore, typically, is trying to play...

Almost immediately after the announcement of Brexit, Bitcoin and Blockchain startups started thinking of leaving Britain to other Fintech...

Telemedicine is fast adopting the use of A.I. as an umbrella term in over-the-phone medical help. HealthTap just announced the launch of...

ANZ,  an Australian bank, was among the first to explore the possibility of using AI for wealth management by using Watson to help...

The bot calculates small amounts that a user wouldn't notice to add to a savings account. The company will again help users apportion...

All in all, 2017 appears to be starting on a funding roll for the fintech sector: just this week, mobile payments startup iZettle...

The investment was led by ACE & Company, Richard Li’s Pacific Century Group, Nova Founders Capital, SBI Holdings (former SoftBank...

London based digital wallet and exchange platform Verimuchme has received a $5m grant from the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator, a new UK incubator...

€45 million of the funding is coming in the form of debt from Victory Park Capital. The remaining €15 million comes from existing...

Paris based financial management app Bankin has raised €7m in venture funding led by Omnes Capital. The company, which has raised €8.4m...

A quick read from the Economist on how factoring invoices has become cheaper and faster for hard-pressed suppliers. The market is also...

Switzerland based SME financing startup Advanon has raised $13.3m in Series B funding from four investors including Swisscom, the...

With fee pressures from passive management, will sponsors adopt performance-based "fulcrum fees" asks the WSJ. Under federal rules, a...

Uptake of distributed ledgers will remove $110 billion in costs for the global financial services industry over the next three years as...

INDIA is changing into an effervescent ecosystem offering fintech lending start-ups a platform to potentially grow into billion-dollar...

Looks like higher barriers to entry for start-ups to launch their P2P business, with 150k licence fee

House of Fraser is planning to invest as much as £35m in digital challenger bank Tandem as part of a tie-up that will see the upstart...

Fintech consolidating each other versus strategics

Venturebeat interviews partners from GV, Greylock, a16z, and NEA to get their thoughts on the key trends in VC and tech in 2017

Interesting these trends look like the same or the last decade: Predicted trends include massive cost savings in claims and operations,...

This post from Andrew Keys (Head of Biz Dev at ConsenSys) does a good job of outlining some intersting predictions for distributed...

It's started and the World Economic Forum predicted last year that the rise of robots and AI will result in a net loss of 5.1 million...

Time for the mega funds....The fund launch also follows the launch of a similar but larger fintech fund in October 2016, the Zhongguancun...