This week, Barclays and Santander InnoVentures demonstrated traditional banks’ interest in alternative finance MarketInvoice wasn’t the...

A year later and after a £7m funding round during 2018, it has now appointed a former Rightmove executive who also helped launch the Zero...

Dutch-based AI-powered real estate valuation platform has raised $33 million in Series B funding led by Index Ventures. PropTech is a...

Apps such as Robinhood, BUX and Webull are drawing in young and often inexperienced investors; ‘bringing the ability to make foolish...

In line with its launch, around 60 financial institutions from 12 countries and regions have joined the new committee, including banks,...

Lloyds Banking Group plans to cut hundreds of millions of pounds in annual technology costs by switching its computer systems to a new...

Porsche Financial Services, Inc. (PFS) and Mile Auto, Inc., a pay-per-mile auto insurance company, today announced an agreement to...

TaxScouts, the U.K. “tax preparation” startup founded by TransferWise and MarketInvoice alumni, has created some new paperwork of its...

Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street banking giant, is to extend its push into Britain's retail financial services sector by taking a stake in...

France’s data protection regulator, CNIL, has issued Google a €50 million fine (around $56.8 million USD) for failing to comply with its...

Credit Culture, a Singapore-based fintech startup, has secured a S$40 million (US$29.4 million) investment from Malaysian-listed...

Go-Jek has acquired a stake in Coins.ph, a blockchain-enabled mobile wallet startup in the Philippines. 

According to an official...

Klarna, the Swedish financial technology giant valued at $2.5 billion last year, has a new addition to its shareholder register from the...

Jojonomic, Southeast Asia's leading expense and business management platform, has successfully closed a new round of funding led by...

Roughly half of last year’s revenue came from government agencies, such as the U.S. Defense Department, and the other half from corporate...

Seems that Valor’s plan either doesn’t exist, is extremely hypothetical, or is entirely fraudulent.  Nevertheless, the question...

HSBC is increasingly relying on blockchain technology to facilitate its foreign exchange trading services, reports in Financial Times...

Tech-focused insurer ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance Co. and transportation service network Grab are establishing a joint venture...

Bahrain-based alternative investment manager Investcorp said on Monday it was forming a $1 billion European private equity portfolio with...

Who are the movers and shakers in Singapore’s tech scene? One way to judge – although imperfect – would be the amount of money they have...

Vietnamese e-wallet MoMo has raised a Series C funding round led by global private equity firm Warburg Pincus. 

While financial terms...

Indonesian fintech startup Akulaku has successfully raised US$100 million in its Series D funding round from backers including Alibaba’s...

Financial technology continues to bring exciting times ahead in the Philippines with the ever-growing emergence of new fintech players...

ZOPA investors outperformed the FTSE 100 in 2018, the peer-to-peer lender has claimed.The consumer lending platform compared the returns...

Predictions from Ishaan, CEO of Trussle, one of our portfolio companies in Fund II. There’s been a lot of discussion around open banking...

First Spotify embarrassed us by revealing we spent 90% of 2018 listening to Ariana Grande. Now Monzo has decided to join in the public...

Alibaba has paid €90 million ($103 million) to acquire Data Artisans, a Berlin-based startup that provides distributed systems and...

While working with Southeast Asian ecommerce companies at an adtech company he co-founded, Akshay Garg discovered the problem of “cart...

Why the next big thing in fintech is not mobile payments.

In October 2018, Grab raised US$200 million to expand its fintech offerings....

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) has issued a regulation on equity crowdfunding, which will allow startups to raise funding...

There was a lot about CES in Las Vegas last week that was predictable.

Google and Amazon competed for voice-activated mindshare. There...

KinerjaPay, a digital payment and e-commerce platform, announced that it has received US$200 from PT. Investa Wahana Group, Indonesia,...

An intriguing new startup is out from under the radar in Southeast Asia after BasisAI, a Singapore-based company, revealed itself this...

TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer company, is applying for a new licence in Brussels, in a bid to...

Another great news for European Tech! Fintech startup N26 is raising a Series D round of $300 million. Following this new funding round,...

Zopa reveals stock market ambitions as it aims to take on big banksChief executive Jaidev Janardana wants the firm to be a top 10 bank...

Nice piece of research of our portfolio company Trussle! The most affordable London commuter towns of 2019 have been revealed in a list...

Blythe Masters left JPMorgan Chase in 2014 to become CEO of Digital Asset Holdings. Now, three and a half years later she is stepping down.

Go-Pay leads but new central bank system will bring more competition as transactions surge. 

The humble QR code is set to give the...

Ant Financial’s Sesame Credit system for rating individuals struggles to prove itself. 

Sesame, which is an opt-in feature of the...

Visa's acquisition of the cross-border payments platform is notable given the acquisition comes at 4x the company's previous stock price....

Welcome to the 4th edition of Finch Capital's predictions, our annual thoughts highlighting what we believe one can expect in 2019 from...

Gaze into Fortune's Crystal Ball and see what we predict will be the biggest trends for 2019. Key ones that came out of the readers...

Nice article on the outlook what happened and what the outlook could be!

Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is moving into financial services, adding mutual protection, personal credit and automobile...

Go-Jek’s subsidies are a potent tool to gain market share. Keeping it is another matter.