How BBVA ‘Advocates’ Internally for Early Stage FinTech Startups
It is one thing to talk the talk of working with fintech startups. It is a whole other thing to ...
Tag: Capital & Funding
Startups See Challenges in 2016 Fundraising, Recruiting
Sometimes realism and pessimism can be the same thing. The 900 startups featured in Silicon Valley Bank's seventh annual Startup Outlook ...
Alt. Lender SoFi Takes On Investor Shortage with Hedge Fund Launch
Social Finance CEO Mike Cagney always does things a bit differently. The alternative lender, commonly known as SoFi, began in student loan refinancing ...
Asian Fintech Deal Sizes Dwarfed Those of U.S. in 2015
Asian fintech deal sizes dwarfed U.S. deal sizes in 2015, a new report from KPMG and CB Insights shows. Global ...
Ant Financial Raises $3.1 Billion on $50 Billion+ Valuation
The name might indicate something small, but Ant Financial is anything but. The spinoff of Alibaba is valued at over $50 ...
Affirm Will Soon Help Customers Build Credit Histories
Fill that file with good things Affirm, the lending startup piloted by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, recently announced plans to report ...
The Call for ‘Trust’ in Fintech Startups
SEATTLE -- The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on ...
Breaking Banks: Is Blockchain Essential to the Fintech Revolution? [AUDIO]
This week, "Breaking Banks" recounts the history of Bitcoin, and how, despite ambivalent public opinion over the past seven years, ...
BitFury Invests in BitPesa, Pan-Africa Bitcoin Trading Platform
BitFury, the world's leading bitcoin blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company has just made an investment in BitPesa -- a universal ...
Hot Hashtag: #EUdatap Opening Doors for Fintech Innovation
After the Paris attacks, EU countries pledged to come together to reform data protection. The move was driven by concern over anonymous users ...
