In an effort to properly regulate, define and use alternative digital currencies and the technology that underpins them, blockchain, New...
Online small business lending platform Biz2Credit announced today that they have closed their Series B funding round; the $52 million...
The news marks the first time a major US bank has created a cryptocurrency; the bank plans to start trials...
Lenders are facing some extraordinary times right now as they try to prepare for the months ahead; underwriting risk has...
Approved has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding and announced its launch; Approved provides lenders with a solution for moving their lending operations online; the platform technology provides for increased transparency and faster processing times; the company will target established originators seeking to modernize their lending businesses. Source
Business Insider sat with Coinbase’s Dan Romero who recently took on the role of general manager and vice president of the company in January; the interview covered the company’s plans for growth on the engineering and product sides; he said the company is looking to become for cryptocurrency what Google has become for search; the interview also talks through the recent SegWit upgrade, where Coinbase is headed in the next few years and how they compare to their biggest competitors. Source.
BlackRock is leading a $50mn investment round into microinvesting app Acorns to help build out their investment options; BlackRock joins...
Cross River Bank does not share many of the same qualities as some of the nation’s largest banks since they...
In December JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank was working on creating their own API for data sharing;...
Miles Reidy is a partner at QED and spearheads the VC firm’s regtech initiatives; Reidy talks about his background, why regtech has its origins in the changes brought on by the financial crisis, the differences that regtech is making in financial services today and more. Source