By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia 2016 was the year fintech became legit in Asia. Startups and entrepreneurs

By LTP San Francisco, USA – Monday 19 December 2016 – FinTech startup, Paystack, announced

By CB Insights From the rise of insurers starting strategic venture arms to a record

By Tanaya Macheel for Payments Source The blockchain startup Axoni has raised $18 million in a Series

By Julie (@julieschicktanz) Muhn for Finovate blog U.K.-based wealth management company Nutmeg brought its total funding

By VentureBeat (Reuters) – President elect Donald Trump is pro-business and anti-red tape. But what

By FinSMEs Cobalt DL, a London, UK-based FX post-trade processing network based on distributed ledger

By Olivia Oran and Anna Irrera for Reuters Dec 19 Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan

By FinSMEs Appetize, a Playa Vista, California-based point-of-sale platform, raised over $20m in funding. The

By Chris O’Brien for VentureBeat As traditional banks face growing competition from fintech newcomers, a Danish fintech

By Fast Company Online lender SoFi is changing course, according to an interview with Bloomberg.

eCurrency Mint Limited, a Dublin, Ireland-based developer of technology to enable digital fiat currency to

By Steve O’Hear for TechCrunch Price f(x), a pricing optimization SaaS, has raised €4 million in

By FinSMEs Growth Capital Ventures (GCV), a London, UK-based developer and operator of specialist online

By FinSMEs OB1, a peer-to-peer trade community, raised $3M in funding. Backers included BlueYard, Union

By Oscar Williams-Grut for Business Insider LONDON — Scalable Capital, a so-called “robo advisor” online wealth manager, has

By Shaheen Samavati for tech.eu UK-based online trading school and education platform Investoo has raised $2 million in funding

By Kevin McSpadden for e27 Indifi Technologies, a Gurgaon-based fintech startup that leverages technology to simplify

By Dean Takahashi for VentureBeat We’ve got smartphones and smart homes. Why not smart insurance? Hippo has

By Samburaj Das for CryptocoinsNews Bitcoin startups are due to see a windfall in investment after multibillion-dollar

By Mihir Dalal for DealStreetAsia Payments processing firm PayU India plans to launch two new businesses—consumer

By Henri Arslanian for LTP In 2016, FinTech went mainstream. So what can we expect

By Steve Rogen for e27 An ICO could be described as a mixture between a donation

By Steve O’Hear for TechCrunch Danish banking app Lunar Way is one of a plethora of

By Laura Shin for Forbes Polychain Capital, a new hedge fund investing in bitcoin, ether and other

By Murray Newlands for Forbes Veteran investor David Blumberg, Founder and Managing Partner of Blumberg Capital, has

By FinSMEs Symend Inc., a Calgary, AB, Canada-based fintech startup, raised $1m in seed funding.

By Osman Husain for TechInAsia “Individual investors in Japan, especially those above 60 years of age, prefer

By Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch As Brazil continues to reel as a result of its economic turmoil

By FinSMEs Lemonade, a New York-based renters and homeowners apartment insurance startup, raised $34m in