The state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is working on secret plans to create a standalone digital bank to compete with emerging...

BNP Paribas has led a $30 million funding round in artificial intelligence outfit Digital Reasoning. Barclays and Square Capital also...

German challenger bank N26 raised $160m Series C round led by Tencent and Allianz.  The company processes $16bn in transaction...

French fintech startup Lydia, which as 1m users and is available in France, Ireland, UK, Spain, and Portugal, has launched its premium...

The increase in its market capitalization of more than $100 billion is partly due to the fast growth of its life and health-insurance...

Damage liability may shift from the driver to a wider list of providers as control of cars shifts from humans to computers

As financial services firms increasingly turn to artificial intelligence technology to create efficiencies and get an edge over their...

n a speech at a banking event on Thursday, Jessica Chew Cheng Lian, deputy governor of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), took a positive tone,

The Securities Commission Malaysia has provided application details for a new category of portfolio management licence called the digital...

Financial technologies that comply with Islamic law, or Sharia, could help attract 150 million new banking customers in the next three...

As at 10.03am on Monday, the counter was trading at S$0.255 apiece. Some 7.4 million shares changed hands.

Ayondo offers social trading...

Grab has acquired Uber’s Southeast Asia operations. According to an announcement, in exchange, Uber will take a 27.5% stake in Grab and...

Ping An Insurance Group

intends to invest 100 billion yuan ($15.8 billion) over the next 10 years to accelerate development of financial...

Great news for N26! Additional funding of USD 160 million led by Allianz X and Tencent. This is a record for this type of funding in the...

Ant Financial’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. facing a tougher environment for securitizing its loans, people familiar with the matter...

German fintech solarisBank has announced a successful EUR 56.6 million financing deal, the second highest to date for a German fintech...

BABB (Bank Account Based Blockchain)

, a London, UK-based developer of a decentralized banking platform, raised $20m in its token sale.

Insurance start-ups’ 2017 financials will disappoint futurists, disruption evangelists, black swan hunters

Co-authored by Matteo Carbone

Great rebranding of our Fund II portfolio company, Trussle. Trussle says its ambition is to transform the home ownership journey into a...

The next 18 months could be a pivotal period in the evolution of AI - there is certainly an appetite for it to succeed – but for that to...

Tussle launched a series of great new TV adds. Enjoy watching hot they transform the mortgage industry

Today, there is more of “Tech” in FinTech than there is of “Fin.” The journey to a borderless tech industry – encompassing every aspect...

Experian buying ClearScore for £275 million.2-year-old ClearScore offers people credit checks for free in the UK and has over 6 million...

The freemium stock trading app has added a web version, stock option trading, and of course its crypto exchange in the past year. The...

Investors remain excited about Future Finance's ability to disrupt the UK student lending market. Equity injected will be used to fund...

Consolidation comes as fintechs face increasing competition from big banks. Tandem, the UK based digital bank, closed a deal to acquire...

Back then, its vision was to provide good quality food and excellent service at best value. Now, its vision is to build global brands....

The emergence of these peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms, offering loans ranging from as little as a few hundred dollars to several...

Singapore-based Grab has launched a new fintech platform that offers loans and insurance, starting with its driver-partners and “middle...

Ayondo operates a brokerage platform that lets users engage in social trading, copying the trades of leading traders on the platform to...

BigPay offers a mobile wallet which can store up to 10 credit and debit cards, and has partnered with MasterCard to offer its own top-up...

Over the past couple of months, we have seen some potential moves into the Insurance sector by some big tech players, specifically Amazon...

Sao Paolo based challenger bank Nubank raised a $150m growth equity round led by DST Global. The São Paulo-based startup secured the...

Capitolis, the pioneering technology provider for the capital markets today announces two rounds of financing, a Series A investment of...

S&P Global is acquiring Boston based Kensho for $550m as it looks to utilize its data analytics and machine learning platform on its...

The top US marketplace for buying and selling digital coins is offering investors another way to get in on the cryptocurrency craze.. The...

Following the successful merger last year, DIG has made great progress in building a leading digital insurance platform. Amongst other,...

Please find excellent pitch of INGo Weber, CEO of the Digital Insurance Group a Fund I and Fund II investment company.

Of the 36 companies, 34 operate in Greater Jakarta, while the remaining two are situated in Surabaya, East Java, and Ternate in North...

As a part of its latest Fintech Bay initiative, Bahrain is willing to facilitate fintech companies from all around the world and provide...

Last month, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by MIMOS Bhd (MIMOS) and the International Centre for Education in Islamic...

Established in 2017, Talenta provides premium one-stop blockchain consulting services for their clients to run their blockchain projects...

Creditors were told by the liquidator for the fintech firm on March 6, 2018 the company owes more than $143 million, and is now unable to...

The funding will be used to drive expansion for the chat app across Asia, including priority markets such as Singapore and China in the...

Our Fund I, portfolio Company PrepayNation announced a great partnership with VEON. Congrats to the team lead by Anurag and Ajay very...

Fund II portfolio company, Squirro, a leading provider of customer insight and cognitive search solutions, today announced that it has...

Etherisc, the decentralized insurance platform, and the Decentralized Insurance Foundation have announced that registration is now open...

Nearly 40% say the sector has not embraced innovation and 44% of brokers also don’t believe software houses have done enough to...

Thingco, an insurance technology (insurtech) venture based in London, will expand into China, appointing Richard Trebble as partnership...

Axa Insurance has teamed up with InsurTech start-up Brolly to provide a new car insurance product.The insurer stated that it was the...

Nice focus on 7 key regions in this article, including key external and internal challenges, as well as insurer priorities. Each preview...

Revolut, the fast-growing money transfer app that ranks as one of Britain’s brightest fintech companies, has broken even for the first...

TigerWit, a leader in the provision of financial trading technology for retail investors around the globe. This capital will enable...

Founded by technology entrepreneurs Joshua Motta and John Hering, Coalition is a technology company that offers cyber insurance products...

Bahrain FinTech Bay joins a small but growing number of platforms in the Middle East and North Africa designed specifically to accelerate...

Founded in 2013, Wecash claims to be China’s first online credit assessment and reporting company. The company revealed that over the...

The development will still be influenced by global players while the implementations will be carried out by local players. Although local...

Revolut claims to be signing up between 6,000 and 8,000 new customers a day and has added half a million new users in the last two...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the State Government of Maharashtra (GoM) in India have signed a Memorandum of...

Singapore-based private equity firm Luminor Capital, a majority shareholder in the loss-making European firm since 2014, is seeking to...

Decreased fintech investment in China accounted for much of the decrease in investment in Asia, KPMG explained. According to the firm,...