By Matthew Lynley for the Techcrunch, Square is acquiring the team behind Framed Data, a predictive

By Steve O’Hear for the Techcrunch.com Offering what it calls Banking-as-a-Platform, FinLeap, the German fintech

By Steven Millward Rumors of an IPO for Line have been rumbling on for nearly three

By Julie Verhage for Bloomberg.com Record number of deals for fintech in 2015. Some fintech companies

By ROLFE WINKLER and DOUGLAS MACMILLAN for WSJ Messaging company still worth $16 billion in

By Lerato Mbele for BBC As the UK bank Barclays announced its full year results,

By Terence Lee for TechinAsia Migme, which calls itself a “digital media company” for emerging markets,

By Nidhi Verma India will consider merging some of its more than two dozen state-run

Singapore, Singapore, February 19, 2016 –(PR.com)– Nearex, a Singapore technology start-up that’s rapidly emerging as

In interviews with the Australian Ambassador to Israel and StartupAUS’ Acting CEO, Geektime learned how Australia

By Jon Russel for Techcrunch Fresh from pulling in $83 million from European insurance giant

By Jon Russel for Techcrunch US-startup Robinhood is one of a number of fintech companies

By Terence Lee for TechinAsia Singapore’s banks are head over heels in love with fintech.

By Ingrid Lunden for Techcrunch One more chapter in the messy story of Powa Technologies,

By Aaron Back for wsj.com LendingClub’s new arrangement with its partner bank is a reminder

By Romain Dillet for techcrunch.com, British startup Revolut just closed its seed round. After announcing

By Ingrid Lunden for Techcrunch, A year after raising $100 million, London-based startup WorldRemit has picked up more

KPMG Australia Accounting and consulting giant KPMG has acquired Markets IT for an undisclosed sum.

Jointly bring expanded, omni-channel service capabilities and access to new geographies and merchants, to take

Beijing-based P2P (peer-to-peer) lending start-up Weijinsuo has completed a RMB300 million (US$46 million) series A

By Jessy Hempel for The Wired Magazine SIX YEARS AGO, Irish brothers John and Patrick

By Swaraj Singh Dhanjal for DealStreetAsia, The slowdown in the availability of equity funding and a

By Steve O’Hear for Techcrunch.com Latvia’s , a fintech startup that operates a p2p loans

By Connie Loizos for Techcrunch.com Zendrive, a startup that uses smartphone sensors to measure drivers’

By Meghna Rao for techinAsia.com Mobile wallet-turned ecommerce site Paytm made it free for customers

Reuters: Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said it has acquired Indian payments processor Emvantage Payments Pvt Ltd

The Economic Times:  RentSher – set up by IIT Delhi and Oxford University alumni –

DealStreetAsia: Bangalore-based student microlending startup, Buddy, has raised a Pre Series-A funding round of $500,000

By Rachel Boon for StraitsTimes, SINGAPORE -Personal finance portal MoneySmart.sg will offer an OCBC Bank

By Paul La Monica for CNN Money, Visa, the credit card processing giant famous for