Bloomberg: Square, the mobile-payments company founded and led by Jack Dorsey, the interim CEO of
Bloomberg: Square, the mobile-payments company founded and led by Jack Dorsey, the interim CEO of
TechInAsia: Bitcoin is in an interesting phase. With the flight of speculators following the crash
TechInAsia: Philippine Bitcoin startup Coins.ph has come up with a way for you to move money
TechCrunch: Shopify has been steadily improving its iPad-based POS solution since its launch a couple of
VentureBeat: PayPal started trading on the Nasdaq this morning at $41.46 per share. As an independently traded company,
BusinessInsider: Our 2015 Silicon Valley 100 list highlights the coolest people and companies in Silicon Valley
TechCrunch: British startup Revolut just raised $2.3M (£1.5M) from Balderton Capital to make you pay
TechCrunch: Samsung has begun rolling out its answer to Apple Pay in Korea this week.
TechCrunch: What if you could get rid of your driver’s license? We’re not there yet,
TechCrunch: Shopping – both online and offline – is a great luxury of the modern era.
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
Fastacash, a Singapore-based fintech startup, yesterday announced a $15 million Series B funding round by
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
TECHINASIA: Cermati, an online portal for finding and comparing financial products in Indonesia, announced earlier