On Finovate.com
- “PayPal’s Early Valuation Tops $44 Billion”
- “Monitise to Emphasize API, On-Site Solutions in Strategy Shift”
Around the web
- Xero to offer foreign invoice payments via new partnership with Midpoint Holdings.
- Loop featured in profile of Samsung Pay.
- PYMNTS.com takes a look at PayPal CEO Dan Schulman’s conversation with the Financial Times.
- Gulf News Banking highlights Zopa in its review of the rise of P2P business lending.
- Ferratum Group selects Mambu to Power SME Lending.
- Top Image Systems to deploy an automated multichannel and mobile data-capture project for online financing company that provides funds to India-based SMBs.
- Lighter Capital closes 100 deals.
- CDApress recommends FamZoo to help kids understand personal finance skills.
- Credit.com blog lists Global Debt Registry as a tool to help get rid of an old debt.
- Better ATM Services CEO Todd Nuttall quoted in Australian Times column on how technology delivers a growing share of bank services.
- My Bank Tracker reviews and compares Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, and BillGuard.
- The Bitcoin News interviews the new online marketing manager for Bitbond, Chris Grundy.
- Wall Street Journal features PsychSignal in a review of stock market sentiment and social media.
- Inc. feature on Silicon Prairie highlights Blooom, Hip Pocket, and Dwolla.
- Rise in tech investment in the United Kingdom credited to companies like Azimo and Currency Cloud in London’s fintech sector.
- Forbes column on investing for millennials features Hedgeable.
- Realty Mogul adds two new vice presidents of commercial real estate.
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