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Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015, 6/7 Oct in San Francisco. Developer news CIO of UBS asserts the blockchain will heavily impact financial services. Inc. Magazine: “Why Fintech Is One of the Most Promising Industries of 2015″ Accenture and leading Read more…
The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live on stage at FinovateFall 2015. Pick up your tickets to our annual autumn conference here, and we’ll see you in New York! Blockstack.io offers a blockchain software platform for financial services firms and other enterprises to build applications on a private blockchain quickly and easily. Read more…
Around the web Zopa CEO Giles Andrews quoted in The Financial Times column on the growth of P2P lending in Asia. Daily Fintech looks at SigFig and its turn toward a B2B business model in the wake of the Yodlee acquisition. Consumer Reports calls Betterment a “top 5” in customer service. Top Image Systems announces Read more…
The BBVA Open Talent competition released the list of finalists for its 2015 competition. And five alums from both our Finovate and FinDEVr conferences will be competing for the top prizes. The three regional finals will be held in September (schedule below). Six winners will be chosen, two from each category. Winners will receive €30,000 Read more…
Another monster week in fintech. Depending on how much Stripe received in its round (at a $5 billion valuation), something north of $600 million flowed to 17 fintech companies worldwide. That closes out the month at just under $2 billion raised ($1.65 billion equity; $250 million debt), more than double the $900 million raised a Read more…
Are you building new financial technology? Be sure to register soon for the only event exclusively for fintech developers, FinDEVr 2015, on 6/7 October in San Francisco. Industry news SETL uses blockchain to help facilitate settlement of market transactions. PaymentsViews interviews Doug Yeager, inventor of Host Card Emulation (HCE) Let’s Talk Payments looks at how Read more…
Devpost, the self-described “home for hackers” formerly known as ChallengePost has released data from nearly 10,000 student programming projects that finally answers the question: When the going gets tough and the competitive coders get coding, which language do they choose? You can find the answer to that question here—hint: rhymes with HTML/CSS—along with the full Read more…
On Finovate.com “The Next FinTech Unicorn? Rumored $150 Million Heading to Kabbage“ “Reparo Loves Mambu: Partnership Brings New Loan Options to UK SMEs” Around the web Datamonitor looks at how “wealth giants” are responding to the challenge of robo-advisors like Betterment. Atom Bank chooses front-office technology from Intelligent Enviornments and back-office technology from FIS. Fujitsu’s Read more…
While the week got off to a slow start, the money arrived in buckets the past 48 hours. Counting the $250 million in new debt to alt-small-biz lender LiftForward, the weekly total was $454 million. But the more widely tracked equity total was still a sizable $204 million across 20 companies including three Finovate alums: Read more…
On Finovate.com “Five Alums Earn Finalist Spots in Global Banking Innovation Awards 2015″ “Capriza Chosen by Flextronics, Marvell, NTT, Symantec to Boost Workflow Efficiency” Around the web FusionInvest from Misys wins “Best buy-side pricing and market display” at Systems in the City Awards. Avalara and ePages partner to provide cross-border transaction tax-compliance solution. See Avalara Read more…
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that venture fundings of $19.2 billion in Q2 were just shy of the peak dot-c0m era (see inset). While the data wasn’t broken out by sector, I’d wager that last quarter’s $5 billion in fintech-startup funding was 5x to 10x more than in 1999/2000. Is there too much being Read more…
Since we received the highest-ever number of applications to demo during our FinovateFall conference in New York, we quickly discovered that electing presenters would not be easy. After a month-long screening process, we narrowed the pile to the newest and most innovative ideas in fintech. Today, we’re revealing the first group of companies that will Read more…