By Laura Suter for The Telegraph Peer-to-peer lender Zopa has announced plans to launch an online-only bank challenging high-street lenders,

By Antonia Timmerman for DealStreetAsia Indonesia’s early stage venture fund East Ventures has invested an undisclosed

By Robert Hackett for Fortune He quietly founded a competitor to his once highflying former firm.

Slava Solodkiy, managing partner at Life.SREDA VC, for Fintechnews Singapore Facebook is currently considering acquiring

By Jonathan Keane for VentureBeat Russian lending platform Blackmoon has raised $2.5 million in funding from Target

By Michael Tegos for TechInAsia How do you learn to fly a plane without a few hundred

By Reuters Online lending platform operator LendingClub reported a smaller-than-expected loss and said an investor had

By Malavika Velayanikal for TechInAsia Fintech is one of the hottest domains in India currently. Despite the

By Kevin McSpadden for e27 About four months after Funding Societies temporarily halted its crowdfunding loan terms

By LTP Six P2P lending licenses were granted in Malaysia recently, making them the first

By Eyal Lifshitz for VentureBeat Lately, those saying that fintech lenders have been overvalued are being vindicated

By Steve O’Hear for TechCrunch Arex, a startup that is taking a marketplace approach to invoice

By Lidiana Rosli for New Straits Times KUALA LUMPUR: Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today announced six

By Slava Solodkiy, Managing partner of Life.SREDA, Last week NETFLIX released six new episodes of

By Steven Millward for TechInAsia Jack Ma’s Ant Financial, which runs China’s top mobile wallet app, today

By FinSMEs MPower Financing, a Washington, DC-based lending platform for high education, secured $6M in

By Paul Sawers for VentureBeat Peer-to-peer lending service Lending Club is expanding into car financing with the

By Connie Loizos for TechCrunch Finrise, a year-old, Burlingame, Ca.-based startup with a new approach to

By LTP Aurora Exchange announces the first P2P lending platform to combine FinTech and InsurTech,

By Steve O’Hear for TechCrunch It was long-rumoured that Sebastian Diemer, who co-founded credit scoring and

By John Mannes for TechCrunch This morning, fintech startup Affirm announced a new $100 million credit

One of the core differences between the FinTech world and traditional financial institutions lies in

By The Economist Microlending might work better if it were more impersonal

By Sofia for LTP The role of electronic payments in 2016 goes far beyond basic

By David Prosser for Forbes Remember the days when crowdfunding platforms were the young upstarts threatening to

By Kate for LTP The alternative lending industry went from an explosive growth, a goldmine for

By Nadine Freischlad for TechInAsia It’s a gold rush moment for fintech in Indonesia.

By Duckju Kang for e27 In the last one to two years, mobile payments have

By Wired IT TAKES MONEY to make money, so the saying goes. Which is why,

By Kate for LTP Mobile P2P money transfers are estimated to increase from $15.22 billion