By Fintech News Hong Kong Financial institutions are lining up behind blockchain, a technology that

By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia Singapore-based MC Payment announced today it has acquired a controlling stake in

By FinSMEs Alpaca, a San Mateo, CA-based fintech startup building AI and database technology for

By Steve O’Hear for TechCrunch Cuvva, the Scottish startup that reckons it’s spotted a gap in

By Anisa Menur A. Maulani for e27 Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)-listed startup CoAssets today announced that

By FinSMEs SatoshiPay Ltd, a London, UK-based private nanopayment software and blockchain company, raised £640k

By Jonathan Keane for tech.eu Turkish fintech startup iyzico has raised $13 million in a Series

By FinSMEs Fig, a San Francisco, CA-based gaming crowdfunding platform, raised $7.84m in Series A

By FinSMEs Grayscale Investments, LLC, a New York City-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Digital Currency Group,

By Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch Some news today from Dwolla, the startup that competes with banks (but

By CB insights Thematic areas that attracted strategic investment in 2016 included cybersecurity, property management software,

By FinSMEs Destacame, a Santiago, Chile-based alternative credit scoring startup, closed a seed round of

By Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch The British pound may be at one of its lowest points

By Amy Bell For Investopedia While skeptics claim the fintech bubble will soon burst, many experts

By FinSMEs Fraugster, a provider of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology solution to eliminate payment

By Penny Corpsman for Payments Source Kasisto, a provider of chatbots to banks, announced Thursday a $9.2

By FinSMEs Corlytics, a Dublin, Ireland-based provider of a regulatory risk intelligence platform, raised €3m

By FinSMEs Crowdsurfer, a Cambridge, UK-based Crowd finance data intelligence company, raised over £1m in

By Edison Chen for e27 hahow, an online talent crowdfunding platform based in Taiwan, announced the

By CB Insights Two of every three insurance tech deals in 2016 took place at

By Eva Yoo for TechNode Qtum a Shanghai-based blockchain company, announced on Wednesday a more than 1 million USD

By Sherwood Neiss for VentureBeat In May, the third and final part of the 2012 JOBS Act,

By Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch Make way for another large fintech investment out of Europe. Funding Circle, the

By Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch The world of mobile payments continues to consolidate and mature, and

By FinSMEs Bankin’, a Paris, France-based finance app for people to understanding their finances, raised

By Tomas S. Noda III for Deal Street Asia Tiger Brokers Co, a Beijing-based online brokerage

By Vivina Vishwanathan for Deal Street Asia Year 2016 was not as glamourous as 2015 was

By FinSMEs Polychain Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based manager of a hedge fund which invests

By Shefali Anand for The Wall Street Journal India is seeing a surge in lending from financiers

By Aman Trivedi for LTP Over the past two years, distributed ledger technology (DLT) has