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CardFlight releases its mobile POS app, SwipeSimple 2.0. Sky News reports Temasek is investigating a possible purchase of Misys. The Observer features Ripple Labs in its look at the “race to replace bitcoin.” Column on digital money accounting highlights, Mint, Venmo, and Coinbase. Investopedia compares Motif Investing to investing with traditional exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Forbes Read more…
IntelligentHQ features TransferWise and CurrencyFair in its look at the “currency transfer revolution.” ayondo hires Peg Reed as Senior Vice President of Business Development. School of Bookkeeping reviews Kashoo Simple Cloud Accounting. Fintech Monthly focuses on recent fintech fundraising including recent investment in TransferWise. ProfitStars adds billpay, invoice management, and mobile banking functionality to its Read more…
Our preview of the upcoming FinDEVr conference continues with a look at two companies whose technologies have become synonymous with payment innovation: PayPal / Braintree and Forte Payment Systems. If you’ve missed our earlier previews, check out our previous features on: Yodlee Interactive, TD Ameritrade Institutional, Visa Developers, and MasterCard Developer Zone. Remember, FinDEVr is less than two Read more…
Guess which fintech company’s just-completed, $6 million Series B round comes stamped “Intel Inside”? On Friday, Zumigo announced an investment from Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment and M&A arm, along with participation from existing investors, including Aligned Partners. This Series B round brings Zumigo’s total funding to $7.7 million. Zumigo’s CEO and Co-founder Chirag Bakshi says the new financing Read more…
Are you a fintech startup looking to up your game? Then SixThirty has a date for you. Friday, July 11th: the deadline for applications for its Fall 2014 Accelerator class. Click here for more information and to get the process started. SixThirty gives fintech startups $100,000 in funding (in exchange for an equity stake between Read more…
Are you a European startup with seed funding and a beta program ready to go? If so, MasterCard’s Start Path Accelerator program may be the opportunity you’ve been looking for. The Start Path Accelerator program will give up to eight startups the opportunity to spend four months in Dublin working with MasterCard. The companies will Read more…
After the Simple superstorm a couple of weeks ago, another neobank darling, Moven, is making headlines with the announcement that it is launching out of beta to the general public. Now that it’s no longer limited to invite-only, anyone can sign up for the New York-based startup’s platform. Additionally, new users have the option to open Read more…
I was on vacation when the Simple deal went down last week. So, today I read the 25 or so unique articles published Thursday and Friday on BBVA’s $117 million acquisition of Simple. Of the bunch, only Ron Shevlin dove under the covers as to why a global financial powerhouse plunked down nine figures for Read more…
Wow, it was a whirlwind of fintech news in the past seven days. Here are four stories that spiked on our fin-o-meter: ________________________________ 1. Stripe’s $80 million funding _________________________________________ It’s not so much the amount of the funding, though that’s one of the biggest C-rounds we’ve seen in the space, rivaling Square’s $100 million round Read more…
Since my previous Fintech Four (when Bitcoin was a lowly $200), it’s been an interesting few weeks. Here are the standouts last week: _________________________________ One: Coin is an overnight YouTube sensation _________________________________ Who would have guessed a $50 payment gadget could be a viral hit? In the week since it was announced, the 105-second demo Read more…
The $2.5 million investment, which includes participation from angel investors along with Frontline Ventures, brings CurrencyFair’s total capital to $4.8 million. CurrencyFair co-founder and managing director, Brett Meyers said, “We allow our customers to take control of how they transfer their funds and save them money at the same time … (T)he investment will provide Read more…
Editor’s note: This was supposed to be the Friday Fintech Four, which is much better alliteration. But alas, it didn’t get published, so here’s the belated Monday version. <drum roll> Here are the four most surprising fintech developments of the past week (in no particular order): ____________________________________________ One: Stealthy mobile payment startup Clinkle hires long-time Read more…