Having failed to buy MoneyGram, Ant Financial is looking to pound it into the ground with the launch of a home-grown blockchain-based...

The conference comes months after Rob Wainwright, the agency’s director at the time, warned that around 3 to 4 per cent of £100bn in...

Stellar is in talks to acquire Chain, the San Francisco-based startup building blockchain technology for the financial industry,...

Asset tokenization platform TrustToken just raised $20 million in a strategic token sale with the help of major venture corporations,...

PayPal agreed to buy Hyperwallet, a Canada-based payments provider, for $400 million in cash. 

Through its Braintree unit, PayPal...

The acquisition is the fourth deal announced by PayPal in little over a month, as it continues to aggressively expand its business beyond...

Nice historical overview of ZOPA!

to grow USD 15.28 billion industry between 2018 to 2023 scrutinized in newGreat to see our portfolio company in Fund II, Squirro being...

Proud to have 2 of our portfolio companies in the top 50: Trussle and BUX! and more to come.

London to make up the majority of the...

Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) introduced a wave of technology initiatives in a bid to attract more tech-savvy customers who embrace a...

For the past six months, J.P. Morgan Chase has quietly been shuttling clients to the bank's technology lab on the West Side of Manhattan...

Such growth has consistently occurred as the National Non-Cash Movement, initiated by the government and Bank Indonesia

Acknowledging the broad impact of technological innovation on financial services to the international community, the International...

Several other local banks have already launched their own app-based chatbots for customer enquiries this year, such as HSBC’s Amy and...

Headquartered in Singapore, the programme will be called Propell Asia and focusses on startups in areas like property management, real...

Digital wealth solutions firm Quantifeed's automated investment platform allows advisors and customers a digital wealth management...

Singapore, which for years was seen as Asia’s preeminent financial center, has been overtaken by Hong Kong in managing offshore money,...

Great news for our Fund I portfolio company Fixico and AXA, they are shaking up the car insurance industry! 

TradeIX, a UK startup that has developed a blockchain platform for open-account trade finance, announced on Thursday it had raised $16...

Mortgage companies are warming up to interest-only loans as several lenders have re-entered the market in the last year.Data published by...

safefood.ai is a digital food safety information portal that consolidates data from international food agencies, food alert systems, news...

Swiss insurance company Helvetia uses Squirro to deliver better search results to its five million customers.  Great series of...

Nice momentum in our investment focus areas! Among the segments, InsurTech led the funding race in May 2018 with $422.6 million in...

Nice momentum and series of Tech and innovation activities by Zurich! According to Giuliani, the app will be connected to Zurich and, for...

Join us at Insurtech Insights, we are presenting at Europe's leading insurtech conference, and we invite you to attend amongst their 230+...

AI-powered insurtech firm Lemonade Insurance Company has filed a lawsuit against ONE Insurance, its parent wefox Group and founder Julian...

IPO of Adyen is great news for the Dutch and European Tech and FinTech scene! too much focus on the price share rise versus the...

“The largest money market companies in China are Alibaba (Ant Financial) and Tencent (WeChat Pay). Alipay is giving about 10 million...

Aptly called the Blockchain Space, the project was co-founded by Steven Suhadi, chairman of the Indonesian Blockchain Association, and...

Super Charger is an innovation program run by U.K.-based Standard Chartered. The program is known as Asia’s leading booster for budding...

Last week, the affiliate of the sprawling e-commerce giant Alibaba raised an incredible US$14 billion in a single round of investment,...

Applying for a patent can protect you against idea thefts, except the process can take up to two years. That is lost time that you...

9f Group last raised hundreds of millions of dollars in November 2017, from investors such as Cinda International Holding Ltd, Focus...

Nice interview of Trussle CEO Ishaan Malhi: ‘We wanted to pick a name that meant nothing’ What should you call your company? It’s a vital...

Oakland based card issuer and processor raised $45 million from Iconiq Capital and Goldman Sachs. Total funding to date is $116 million.

Coya, a Berlin-based insurance startup, has raised $30 million in new cash as investors around the world continue to see opportunities in...

Coinbase's acquisition of KeyStone Capital will clear the path for to operate as a regulated broker-dealer, with the potential to offer...

Hyperchain Technologies Co., Ltd announced that it has raised a series B round of RMB1.5 billion (US$ 233.7 million) from Shanghai-listed...

The Italian Banking Association (ABI) has opened a pilot project on blockchain-based interbank reconciliations to a first group of 14...

Lots of positive signs and confirmation that FinTech and AI is on a strong momentum! Germany’s Rocket Internet said on Tuesday it is...

We are pleased to announce the third indonesian investment out of our second fund, Tada. As a company, TADA was founded in 2012 with the...

Deutsche Bank is pushing ahead with its ambitious API programme, putting a call out for 100 enterprises to help it develop its data...

ING was very prominent  at M2020, its HQ city and home of M2020 Europe. ING is showing its innovation chops with a slew of...

R3, a startup that last year announced it had raised $107 million to bring blockchain services to the financial sector, is floundering...

For decades, tiny Bahrain – population 1.5 million – has punched above its weight in the banking and financial services industry,...

World Crypto Organisation (WCO) executive committee member Nicholas Lim said the groups had come together with a memorandum of...

SuperCharger is Asian accelerator programme built in partnership with the public and private sector. They are currently active in Hong...

n a statement today, CIMB Group CEO Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz said he is pleased to have Hendra take on the new role.

"CIMB Fintech is...

Alami is the first financial technology (fintech) syariah aggregator in Indonesia and its mission is to enable SMEs to access financing...

Banks have been slapped with vast sums for not preventing money being laundered through their accounts, and the call for action comes...

Ion Pacific, a Hong Kong-based merchant bank, appointed the city’s former financial secretary, John Tsang Chun-wah, as its vice...

In the past decade “going global” often described the ambition of Chinese bricks-and-mortar enterprises to expand overseas. Today,...

Ant Financial, (Ant) the payments giant controlled by Jack Ma, closed a mega-funding round raising a total of $14 billion. The fund...

SAFENED has closed the final tranche of a EUR 14 million funding round. Safened is an investment out of our First Fund, OGC Growth I and...

The David and Goliath nature of the struggle between up-and-coming fintechs and the established banking world has been brought into sharp...

A warm welcome to Thierry Zois and Lourens Ruigrok who joined  our Amsterdam Office in Q2 2018. Thierry joined in May from Seedrs...

Tradeshift CEO and co-founder Christian Lanng said in a statement: “We have always believed that the future of supply chains is 100...

ING and the  JPMorgan Chase CEO are both transforming their banks into Amazon before Amazon turns into a bank. Please find a nice...

BlaBlaCarBlaBlaCar  directly with a new product called BlaBlaSure.

is iterating once again on its marketplace strategy for all your...

According to an official statement, Sequoia India, which first invested in Pine Labs in 2009, remains the largest shareholder in the...

The fintech market reached USD 4.4 billion in 2017 and is estimated to accelerate by USD 7.8 billion in 2020, driven by rising bank...

When accessed at the time of writing, the website of Kazuki Coin throws the error “Page not found.”Other crypto companies and websites...

Under the MoU, FinTech Hive at DIFC – the first financial technology accelerator in the MEASA region will collaborate with Accenture’s...

India's Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said they would set up a joint working group to be...

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Block.one is funding its blockchain platform called eos.ios through a process known as an initial coin offering, or ICO. Its...