The Funding Circle SME Income investment trust was launched in 2015 to invest in Funding Circle loans originated in the...
El Salvador plans to construct a "Bitcoin City" near a volcano that will be funded by the cryptocurrency.
In two years, Spin has quickly carved out a place of itself as one of the most relevant fintech players in Mexico.
ComplyAdvantage announced the launch of ComplyLaunch, a free AML program for fintech startups, in the U.S. and Canada to bring better access to financial services.
This week's news was dominated by the crypto meltdown, or more specifically, the rapid demise of stablecoin TerraUSD and its paired token Luna, which impacted the entire market.
Last year, Latin America was the fastest-growing region for VC investment. This year, it may be on track to be the fastest-shrinking one.
The French startup called Kard is similar to many of the challenger banks today except that they are targeting a...
Digital customer service tech as a service firm Glia raised a $45m Series D, landing unicorn status of $1 billion in total valuation.
MoneyGram is testing XRP for reducing both the cost of transferring money and the settlement times; Both MoneyGram and XRP traded higher on the news; Ripple has signed on about 100 banks as customers, but is also targeting remittance companies; Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse also tweeted that three of the five largest money-transfer companies would begin to use XRP this year. Source
UK based challenger bank Monzo announced what their plans are for 2018; three specific areas they wanted to highlight were launching a feature to help customers manage bills, ending their prepare program and helping customers to switch to their payments platform; as the company continues to build out new features they said they plan to keep updating clients on a month by month basis. Source.