By Tomasz Tunguz from Redpoint Ventures for his blog Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods is

by Joshua Bateman for TechCrunch As countries progress, citizens migrate from remote villages to large cities

By Samantha Hurst for Crowdfund Insider, London-based fintech company, PayBreak, announced it raised £24.5 million

By PayPal Today PayPal revealed its small business financing scheme has provided more than £400

Tech companies, retailers and price comparison websites could become major banking brands says Deloitte on

By Klarna, Klarna is proud to announce that it has been granted a full banking

We need to keep thinking of new roles for the token. I’ve already outlined about

By Jon Russel for Techcrunch Alibaba could substantially increase its business interests in Southeast Asia

By Vitalik Buterin for his blog Note: I mention the names of various projects below

By John Russel for TechCrunch With high-profile investments from Alibaba and SoftBank fueling an impressive

By WealthInvest Today WealthIntel and TAS Group (“TAS”) announced their execution of a Letter of

The man who invented an early form of text messaging for fixed line networks while

By American Banker When Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, has to explain to his

By Tomasz Tunguz from Redpoint Ventures for his blog When I analyzed the SaaS fundraising

  Yes, buyer beware. Do your homework. Don't be greedy. — Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) June

By Acorns, Micro-investing app, Acorns, has highlighted its commitment to sustainability with the launch of

By Julie Muhn for Finovate Financial services company Fiserv has agreed to acquire U.K.-based Monitise

By JD Alois SoFi has officially filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to create

By CB Insights Since 2012, the top ten US banks by assets under management have

by Erin Hobey for Crowdfund Insider, 70% of the total capital raised by all private European

  By Samantha Hurst Fundbox, a cash flow optimization tool platform for small businesses, announced

Challenger bank Revolut is launching a business banking vertical and is accepting pre-registrations now. Revolut

By R3 As reported last month, R3 has just completed the first two of three

By Cryopto Fund Europe’s first diversified Cryptocurrency Fund Crypto Fund AG is launching the Cryptocurrency Fund,

ZrCoin, based in Russia, says it has raised $7.07 million in cryptocurrency from 3,955 investors

Increasingly cross national investment in fintech is becoming the norm.  As an example, today Bengaluru-based P2P

By Chris Skinner Someone made an interesting comment about Google recently: Banks can attack Google’s

By Anna Lee for Technode Just a few years ago, billion-level funding would be beyond

Uber is in acquisition talks to fold in much of the engineering team from on-demand car valet

From Seeking Alpha Blog Summary: Shopify is now flush with cash with over $900 million.