Formed in June of last year, France Fintech is an association of FinTech startups founded to raise the visibility of the sector and to speak in a coordinated manner to key audiences: regulators, established firms, and …
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The Obama Administration recently launched a push to boost access to basic banking services for millions of Americans who lack them. As Treasury Secretary Jack Lew noted, an inability to access high-quality, low-cost transactional services drives …
The ability to secure financing is critical to the successful deployment of renewable energy projects. In project finance, lending decisions are usually based solely on a specific project’s risks and future cash flows. Generally, lenders have …
InsPeer is an innovative web-based service enabling users to reduce their auto, motorcycle, and homeowners insurance premiums by raising their deductibles and laying off their increased risk on people they know. Generally, the higher the deductible, …
The Boston FinTech Meetup group held a demo night earlier this week, with four companies presenting to a standing room only audience at Workbar in Central Square, Cambridge. Here’s a rundown of the companies in the …
Few FinTech founders will name-drop Marx, Sartre, Keynes, Plato and Piketty in a single blog post. Mathieu Hamel, co-founder and CEO of Marie Quantier, is one of them. Hamel is on a mission to disrupt the …
FinTech Sandbox is a new non-profit focused on giving early-stage financial services and FinTech entrepreneurs access to financial data for product development and testing. While it is based in Boston, its mission is to promote entrepreneurship …
The Boston FinTech Meetup group held its second demo night Tuesday, with six companies presenting to a standing room only audience at the IBM Innovation Center in Kendall Square. Here’s a rundown of the presenters, in …
Named for the famed Italian explorer who also lent his name to two continents, Amerigo Capital Analytics is a French start-up developing analytic tools and models to help institutional investors understand and evaluate US mortgage real-estate …
These are the FinTech startups in the greater Boston area that announced new funding in the first six months of 2014: Consumer United – $14MM Kensho – $10MM peerTransfer – $6.2MM Swipely – $20MM Did I …