fintech
Accenture: $12.2 Billion in Investments Lands into Fintech Sector in 2014
- In a report from Accenture, investments into fintech firms tripled in 2014 to $12.2 billion from $4.05 billion in 2013, with Europe being the top growing market for investments last year.
Thursday, 26/03/2015 | 08:49 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Kabbage Scales Its Alternative Finance Platform with New Licensing Model
- Inaugurating their new licensing model, Kabbage has partnered with Kikka Capital of Australia, which will use their lending technology platform to begin offering services to small businesses in May.
Tuesday, 24/03/2015 | 13:51 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Mobile Advertising on the Agenda for Gaming & FX Entrepreneur Teddy Sagi with Stake in glipsa
- A prominent figure in the world of currency trading and online gaming, Teddy Sagi, has extended his portfolio of companies to include a mobile advertising firm. The entrepreneur has acquired a 75% stake in glipsa.
Monday, 23/03/2015 | 21:26 GMT by
Adil Siddiqui
Stock Market Simulation App TradeHero Partners OANDA to Add Forex
- The trading gamification app is adding foreign exchange and precious metals feeds though a partnership with OANDA, boasting an impressive presence in Southeast Asia in trading related mobile applications.
Wednesday, 18/03/2015 | 08:22 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Global Payments Provider SafeCharge Announces 2014 Revenues up 78%
- Profit after tax has increased eleven times after the company's public listing in April last year, totaling US$14.4 million, with the company's CEO David Avgi highlighting that momentum is carried over into 2015.
Tuesday, 17/03/2015 | 07:33 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Stephonomics: When History Repeats Itself on The Trading Floor
- With 30 years of industry experience, our newest guest blogger Stephen A. Simonis provides a different angle on the market. Read his personal account of the day of the bomb, three decades before the one on January 15.
Tuesday, 10/03/2015 | 20:38 GMT by
Stephen Simonis Senior
Acuity Trading Raises Equity Valuing Company Close To €1 Mln
- The company delivering sentiment analysis to retail investors has partnered up with the Jensen EIS Fund, securing an investment for the future development of marketing operations and additional products.
Thursday, 05/03/2015 | 15:33 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Purported Venture Capital Fund Manager Charged By SEC with Fraud
- Operating in a Ponzi-like fashion, Gregory Gray Jr. and his firms, Archipel Capital LLC and BIM Management LP, have allegedly defrauded a number of investors who were supposedly purchasing Twitter and Uber shares.
Saturday, 28/02/2015 | 14:29 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Twitter Mobile Payments to be Enabled by Barclays’ Pingit
- Starting from next month Barclays’ app for mobile funds transfer, which has been downloaded 3.7 million times and has handled over £1 billion in transactions, will be available for iOS and Android.
Thursday, 26/02/2015 | 17:13 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
Victory Park Capital Issuing IPO to Invest on P2P Lending Platforms
- Illustrating the latest demand among investors to lend money on P2P platforms, Chicago-based Victory Park Capital has filed to raise £200 million on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM in a coming IPO.
Thursday, 26/02/2015 | 13:43 GMT by
Ron Finberg
How Align Commerce Is Using the Blockchain and Bitcoins to Power a Cross-Currency Payments Company
- Using bitcoins and blockchain technology, Align Commerce has created a cross-border payments company that offers simple to understand fees for businesses and online merchants.
Sunday, 22/02/2015 | 13:56 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Bancorp Founding Family Jumps onto Fintech Bandwagon with $100 Million Blank Check IPO
Sunday, 15/02/2015 | 14:57 GMT by
Ron Finberg
InvestUP Launches “Crowdfunding Supermarket” to Simplify Investing
- InvestUP launched their Crowdfunding Supermarket at Finovate this week. The site aims to become a central marketplace, aggregating crowdfunding deals and user portfolios from numerous platforms.
Wednesday, 11/02/2015 | 14:39 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Fintech Hiring Gets Algorithmic with Launch of Untapt’s Automated Jobs Board
Wednesday, 11/02/2015 | 09:13 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Grahame Chilton and His Capsicum Private Office Take Stake in Illuminate Financial Management
Thursday, 05/02/2015 | 14:30 GMT by
Ron Finberg
P2P Lending Marketplace Meets Global Marketplace as Alibaba and Lending Club Partner
- Partnering to create "Alibaba.com e-Credit Line powered by Lending Club," the collaboration is a combination of marketplaces from two of the starts of the 2014 IPO class.
Wednesday, 04/02/2015 | 13:13 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Union Square Ventures Leads eShares First VC Funding Round
- The firm developing a solution aiming to automate cap-table management for private companies set to benefit from the endorsement, as UST states that most of the companies in its portfolio could adopt the product.
Monday, 05/01/2015 | 14:32 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Fintech Trends for 2015: Investing Services, Anti-Social Trading, and Digital Crowdfunding
- We look at three fintech trends that are slated to grow during 2015 but that also have their risks. The uniform theme of each is that they use technology to bring efficiency to the financial markets.
Sunday, 04/01/2015 | 17:00 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Forex Magnates Wants Your Feedback for 2015
- This year we introduced several changes and new features, from a binary options report to a new Fintech section. Moving forward we invite our readers to share what they would want to see more, and less of, in 2015.
Thursday, 01/01/2015 | 22:01 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
SafeCharge International Group Ltd Acquires Irish Pre-Paid Payment Provider 3V
- The listed company will pay €14.5 million euros for the acquisition, delivering to its clients a virtual and physical card-issuance platform, while establishing its own Issuing Services division.
Tuesday, 23/12/2014 | 07:56 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Russian Currency Implosion Dominates Financial News, Fintech's Trading-Startups Space Heating Up
- Forex Magnates spotlights this week's top news from around the world, starting with the massive Ruble liquidity squeeze all the way to the brand new trading innovations from Silicon Valley and beyond.
Sunday, 21/12/2014 | 09:49 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
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