Fintech firms, offering loans of as little as a few hundred dollars, are seeing a spike in lending in Indonesia where tens of millions of...

Congrats to Rudolf and team! Transaction confirms again the strength of the Ducth Payment ecosystem with players like Adyen,...

TradeCore is pleased to announce it has raised $3 million (£2.21 million) in funding led by South Central Ventures.

The company has broken...

BlackRock's Larry Fink calls cryptocurrencies 'an index of money laundering"

This post is updated to include Dianrong’s feedback on IPO planChinese online lending platform Dianrong today announced additional Series...

As Bitcoin continues to become less useful for payments given increasing confirmation times and processing costs (tens of dollars per...

No-commission stock trading app Robinhood will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in...

Nice read on Lemonade it successes and challenges! 

Yes, you heard it right, it’s a three-year-old InsurTech startup being the acquirer while the nineteen-year-old public insurance broker...

Pioneering mortgage monitoring service launched by online broker Trussle.

Trussle’s free mortgage monitoring service will continuously...

So here’s the good news. Investor interest in Europe’s financial technology sector has never been higher. According to a report published...

A new startup in Indonesia wants to car owners in Southeast Asia’s country sell their vehicle with more security and reliability.

VCs continue to pump money into startups attempting to inject life into the legacy and lucrative insurance industry. The latest...

P2P lender Zopa has begun building the executive team for the launch of its new challenger bank later this year, appointing a CFO, chief...

Article on the UK and impact of Brexit, with input of Finch Capital. 

Bewica, Dinghy, Flight Guard, Forest Car and Insure Pal among ten insurtech start-ups to watch in 2018

ZOPA is set to launch a new income verification tool for borrowers as part of its first foray into Open Banking.The peer-to-peer lending...

Deutsche Bank has announced a new strategic partnership with Insurtech firm Friendsurance. The arrangement will see the two companies...

8 InsurTech Predictions in China for 2018 – More IPOs, better intermediaries and globalization

London fintech startup Revolut plans to make things even easier. The company has launched a new geolocation-based travel insurance...

Is Amazon Getting into Insurance? Insurtech Firm Lemonade says Amazon is Poaching their Employees. Is Amazon getting into insurance? This...

Chinese officials will not only block access to local and offshore platforms that provide centralized trading, but will target those who...

Paris based secure crypto hardware wallet startup Ledger has raised a $75m Series B led by Draper Espirit, after raising a $7m round last...

Alibaba's natural language processing (NLP) neural network scored better than average humans in a Stanford University reading and...

Cardlytics, the pioneer in using anonymized bank and transaction data for ad targeting, generated $113m in revenue in 2016 and $91m...

Please find attached the full report to download please go Finch Capital 2018 Predictions full report

Squirro for Corporate Financial Services uses AI to maximise the potential of unstructured data, unearthing new deals and improving the...

Tencent has now received a license that allows it to sell mutual funds on WeChat to its more than 980 million users.  WeChat is...

Stockholm based marketplace lending startup Lendify has raised a $14m funding round from new and existing investors, at a pre-money...

South Korea is reportedly preparing a bill to ban all cryptocurrency trading in the country.  More than 10% of ethereum's trading...

Nice headline of the newspapers, however reading what he said in the interview, he seems to have referred to blockchain not bitcoin, so...

TransferWise begins private launch of its consumer borderless account and bright green debit cardBattle between revolut and Transferwise...

So-called Open Banking kicks off on Saturday in what amounts to a gigantic financial experiment in which Britain is leading the world....

The new digital service is offered exclusively to United Overseas Bank’s (UOB) Commercial Banking clients, which are mainly medium-sized...

Under the deal, Dianrong will leverage its fintech expertise across a range of areas to develop solutions that will help the city boost...

Signed between two of the leading MENA Fintech hubs, the agreement represents a leap forward in promoting the region as a connected and...

Under the Financial Technology Innovation Experimentation Act passed Dec. 29 in the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan will host a regulatory...

Great article on Trussle, and how they are having an impact! With a lot of people resolving to manage their money better in 2018, it is...

Please read more re Safened digital on boarding solution.Old ways of identifying customers were never designed for modern internet...

Amazon may enter the insurance market through a new channel. The e-commerce giant already offers some insurance-related digital services....

Bitcoin's market share has fallen below 35% after treading above 55% for most of 2017, and the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies...

Fortune offers predictions on tech trends in 2018: IoT becoming mixed with blockchain, increased FinTech adoption (especially in...

Indonesia's answer to Alibaba and Tencent, ride hailing startup Go-Jek has announced that it is acquiring three startups to expand into...

Remittance startups aim to reduce time, cost required to send money internationally by using the latest technology. WSJ profiles newer...

In an interview with The Malaysian Reserve, Johari Abdul Ghanis emphasised the importance of "striking a balance between public...

The bank claims the solution is the first of its kind in the country.

Maybank QRPay, which allows customers to instantly pay for products...

Do you think fintech will be the single greatest driver of change in the Islamic finance industry in the next decade? Why or why not?

Under Indonesia’s new set of rules for fintech companies, digital payment services can only be offered by providers after obtaining a...

In a Friday report, analyst Jonathan Koh highlights DBS’ reputation as “the world’s best digital bank” along with its productive...

- Chinese clampdown -

In mid-September, China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), told virtual currency trading platforms...

The magazine, part of the Financial Times Group, publishes an annual list of best central bank governors based on a survey of bankers and...

Let’s compare Singapore and Vietnam, which have very different levels of FinTech opportunities and development. Which nation has the...

Please find attached the summary of our 2018 Financial Technology predictions, you can download by clicking on the attached link: Finch...

The new platform is launched in partnership with financial services comparison platform Cermati, which had raised funding from...