The Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA) and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced the completion of a...

Munich and London based digital investment manager Scalable Capital has raised €30m in Series B funding led by BlackRock. Founded in 2014...

Money2020 Europe has started in Copenhagen. We look forward to meet up! Aman, Hans and Radboud will be there, and we look forward to meet...

London-based fintech company, PayBreak, announced it raised £24.5 million during its latest fundraising round. According to the company,...

London based financial application developer Truelayer has raised $3m in Series A funding led by Anthemis Group. Truelayer has built a...

London based bitcoin platform Blockchain has raised $40m in Series B funding led by Lakestar. Blockchain has been working on the most...

Bancor, a 5 month old platform designed to make it easier for users to launch their own blockchain tokens raised a record $144M within a...

South China Morning Post reports the YIrendai, majority owned by CreditEase, is looking to cross-sell its nearly 1m active users with an...

Nice analyses re fraud and impact of new lending models

Soldolaunched for consumersand since tailored to businessestoo, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. Venture Capital...

Klarna is proud to announce that it has been granted a full banking licence by Finansinspektionen, the Swedish Financial Supervisory...

“The directors have been appointed, but it can’t yet be announced because it’s not official yet. The Digital Financial Innovation [Unit]...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s financial regulator and central bank, has entered a Memorandum of Understanding

Located at the company’s new Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, the space will host fintech innovations developed by Mastercard’s...

Abu Dhabi and Singapore have established a fintech bridge that links the Middle East (i.e. Western Asia) with other Asian markets as part...

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC') and The Australian Securities and Investments Commission have signed a...

Malaysia-based fintech startup MyCash Online raised up to $303,990 (RM1.3 million) through the national crowdfunding platform pitchIN,...

Both parties believe that cooperation with each other will help bridge the gap between fintech ecosystems in Asia and the Nordics. Chris...

Of the 127 discrete steps in executing an IPO, Goldman Sachs has determined approximately half can be done by computers instead of...

Blockchain-based payments startup Circle has launched an international online money transfer service that allows people in the United...

Entrepreneurial start-up raises £180m to design and build an insurance challenger with an ambition to protect more families in the UK....

...and people see new Banking models as something of the last 2-3 years...ING Direct, OpenBank, MetroBank....People thought was easier to...

The first generation of chatbots in financial services has yet to win over the majority of consumers. But as the technology improves,...

While users link their wearables to the platform and have fun improving their health and fitness, insurers enjoy benefits in risk...

No Major new technological disruptions that are not known, but nicely summarised and written

Probably the most AI developed sector is gaming/Gambling. Anyway a good report on AI

We are still in the phase with reports of "how could blockchain change the world of...' ....question is when we get to the phase...

The smartphone payments business Ant Financial is using computer vision, natural language processing, and mountains of data to reimagine...

Blockchain startupStratumnhas successfully raised €7 million in a Series A funding round that saw investments from Nasdaq,...

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced today that it had originated over $3 billion in loans to more than 20,000 small businesses since 2011. One...

The fund, called “Beacon”, will be led by local investment shop InVent founder and former head Thanapong Na Ranong. He stresses the VC’s...

“Up until now there are about 14 other fintech companies which are in the process of registering, and three companies that have yet to...

Among the four that are currently undergoing testing in the Regulatory Sandbox are GoBear, WorldRemit, GetCover and MoneyMatch, according...

The MOU provides a framework for fintech cooperation between Singapore and the 36 ASBA member countries.

ASBA consists of public and...

Richard Teng, CEO of the emirate's Financial Services Regulatory Authority, told the Nikkei Asian Review in May that the Abu Dhabi Global...

Omise, a payment management platform founded by Jun Hasegawa and Ezra Don Harinsut, is Thai fintech’s greatest success story to date. In...

Governments across Asia – most notably Hong Kong and Singapore – have launched a raft of initiatives to grab a slice of the $100 billion...

California based investment management platform Addepar has raised $140m in Series D funding led by 8VC, Harald McPike and Valor Equity...

London, UK based pension advisor platform Smart Pension has raised £15m in Series B funding led by Norway's Stensrud Family. Launched in...

Singapore based financial comparison portal MoneySmart has raised $10m in Series B funding led by Kakaku. Moneysmart helps users compare...

When iOS 11 goes live this fall users in the US people will be able to send money to their friends via iMessage, and spend the balance...

In-person mobile payments, including "invisible transactions" like your Uber ride, are expected to grow from $9.9 billion in 2015 to...

Concerned about the extent of forthcoming regulation designed to make it easier for customers to switch current accounts, Atom Bank CEO...

Nice overview

Payments startup Klarna is ramping up its valuation again as it picks up a new, strategic investor. Last valued at $2.25 billion in 2015,...

Employees can ask the chatbot, dubbed 'Buddy', HR-related questions based on their individual profiles - eg 'how much holiday do I have...

The Demo Day drew in more than 400 guests, including investors from Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed Ventures and IDG Ventures,...

Asia’s large population of smartphone-savvy and unbanked makes it a prime market for alternative lenders. These leverage digital...

First Data is to acquire payment processor CardConnect for $750 million in cash. CardConnect - which processes approximately $26 billion...

Strong momentum of ZOPA, one of our portfolio companies and exciting journey ahead!

China based p2p lender Tuandaiwang has raised $262m in private equity funding led by China Minsheng Investment Group. Tuandaiwang...

Zero-knowledge computing would let banks analyze encrypted information without revealing any secret information

Call them cyborgs. Morgan Stanley is about to augment its 16,000 financial advisers with machine-learning algorithms that suggest trades,...

EngageSpark builds software to help companies reach clients and audiences through phone and SMS campaigns. Its clients can create phone...

Key Features of the Regulatory Sandbox

• The Sandbox will be a virtual space for both CBB-licensed financial institutions and other firms to...

A few months back we did a post about why India will be the most banked country in the world by 2020.One of the key factors we...

The consortium comprises Bank of America Merrill Lynch,Credit Suisse, DBS Bank Ltd,The Hongkong And Shanghai Banking...