TechCrunch: Mobikon, a Pune- and Singapore-based software developer that has its sights set on Asia’s

TechCrunch: A year on from an Index Ventures-led $7M Series A, London-based fintech startup Credit

FinancialTimes: Indian online restaurant service Zomato is placing European expansion at the heart of plans

TechCrunch: While Facebook moves deeper into using its Messenger platform as a vehicle for people to transfer

TechCrunch: Affirm, the lending startup co-founded by Max Levchin, is breaking into student loans for coding,

VentureBeat: Startup ZestFinance today announced Basix, a new program for giving loans online to people

TechCrunch: Realty Mogul, a startup that connects investors with real estate projects, announced today that

TechCrunch: Betterment is billed as a smarter way to invest money. But as a separate

Wired: In 2009, a man named Duncan Chege opened up a modest Internet cafe –

GROOVEMAESTRO: The Korean Government has announced “Plans for Boosting Investments” at the 8th Meeting Promoting

TECHINASIA: E-Marketer predicts that by 2018 there will be 200 million new smartphone users in

TECHCRUNCH: U.S.-based VC firm 500 Startups is launching a new accelerator program in Southeast Asia

WIRED: The UK is a “world leader” in equity crowdfunding, with further democratisation set to

TechCrunch: As crowdfunding sites like Tilt and GoFundMe and lending site Funding Circle raise large

TECHINASIA: These are just a few quotes from the media about an industry that has

WIRED: Stefan Thomas, chief technology officer of Ripple Labs, wants to build something he calls

EU-STARTUPS: In the last decade, there were a bunch of really successful fintech companies that

TECHCRUNCH: Former Disrupt Battlefield participant Self Lender has raised a $1.5 million round of seed

Japan Times: On July 8 and 9, Russia hosted Chinese, Indian, Brazilian and South African leaders

TECHINASIA: Cermati, an online portal for finding and comparing financial products in Indonesia, announced earlier

TECHCRUNCH: As Apple continues to build out Apple Pay for transactions in retail stores, one

WIRED: In a world where Bitcoin wants to make your personal identity irrelevant, disruptive data

E27CO: Singapore-based fin-tech startup Toast is raising a US$750,000 seed round, with half the funds

BLOOMBERGVIEW: What kind of chief executive does a big modern bank need? Apparently not a

WIRED: Funding Circle, a marketplace for business loans, is one of a growing number of companies

WIRED: The financial technology (FinTech) sector is responsible for a record hike in venture capital being

WIRED: Are hackers the new bankers? This is the question rolling around in the mind

TECHINASIA: Nearex, a mobile payments startup based in Singapore, yesterday announced it raised funds in

TECHINASIA: Alibaba’s spin-off finance subsidiary, Ant Financial, today put out a major new update to

TECHCRUNCH: In a move that feels fairly unusual, Global Founders Capital (GFC), the venture capital