By Jennifer Surane for Bloomberg Renaud Laplanche, the LendingClub Corp. founder who stepped down as

By Paul Sawers for Venture Beat A Russian startup is launching in the U.S. this

By Straits Times Singapore is rushing to reinvent itself as Asia’s financial technology, or fintech,

By Alice Wilkie This spring I was part of a Fluxx team that spent three

By LTP As some estimations suggest, ~$4.7 trillion out of $13.7 trillion of the traditional

By Bijan Khosravi for Forbes What makes the billion dollar startups so unique? The answer is

By Anita Balakrishnah for CNBC Some financial technology start-ups have emerged as bright spots in

By Ian Karr for QZ Hacking is a two way street.

By Lynsey Barber for City Am German exchange owner Deutsche Boerse is wrapping up its

By Telis Demos for WSJ Plaid Technologies Inc., whose software allows a variety of financial-technology

Bitcoin companies are seeing significant interest from investors all over the world. Quoine, a Singapore

By Perianne Boring for Forbes This post marks the launch of my new blog on

By Jeremy Kahn for Blooomberg When Taavet Hinrikus moved in 2007 from Estonia to London

By Gola Yashu for Bitcoin News Two of Australia’s leading bitcoin exchanges, CoinTree and CoinLoft, have

By Steve O’Hear for TechCrunch Berlin-based FinLeap, which is a German-style company builder specialising in

By Oscar Williams Grut for Business Insider

By HEATHER SOMERVILLE, OLIVIA ORAN AND JOY WILTERMUTH for Reuters  Many online lenders have failed to detect

By Bloomberg News Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance affiliate has acquired a 20 percent stake

by the Economist BITCOIN is back. Fans (and holders) of the crypto-currency were celebrating after

By Lynsey Barber for CityAM Ambitious digital challenger banks hoping to topple the big high

By Andrew Rowan for e27.com Last year remittances to Vietnam topped US$12.24 billion, up from

By Vladislav Solodkiy for The Deal Street Asia Fintech is currently undergoing a natural evolution

By Rob Price for business insider Top Silicon Valley investors are betting on a startup

By Osman Husain for TechinAsia Publicly-traded German startup machine Rocket Internet released Q1 2016 financial

By Michael Tegos for TechinAsia Big data analytics startup Lynx Analytics announced today it has

By Osman Husain for TechinAsia Twiggle, a startup that’s trying to build better ecommerce search

By Ingrid Lunden and Katie Roof for Techcrunch.com Earlier this week, we reported that the

By Reuters A large Chinese online lending platform accused of illegal operations has suspended operations,

By Tomasz Tunguz for Inc Magazine Originally published by Tomasz Tunguz on LinkedIn: The Decentralization

By Sneha Banerjee for the Entrepreneur  At a time when the startup ecosystem is flooded