Founded in 2011 by Cyril Chiche and Antoine Porte and launched in July 2013, Lydia is the leading mobile payment platform in France with over one million users, a number that is growing by more than 2,000 per day. Users … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]In April of 2014, Eastern Bank, the largest community bank in Massachusetts with approximately $9.8 billion in assets and the largest and oldest mutual bank in the country, hired the team behind virtual banking startup PerkStreet and created Eastern Labs, … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]Founded in 2014, Prattle produces tradable signals by analyzing global central bank communications using a domain-specific linguistic algorithm in real time. Communications can include press releases, meeting minutes, speeches, papers, and more. Built to treat central bank content and communications … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]Headquartered in Paris, BNP Paribas Group is one of the world’s leading banks, operating in 74 countries and employing more than 189,000 people. BNP Paribas has stated plans to double its investment in technology to €3 billion over the next … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]Greater Boston, by my definition, runs from Portland to Providence and as far west as Worcester. By my calculations, 21 FinTech startups in the greater Boston area raised north of $248 million from investors in 2016. This is up substantially … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]Illuminate Financial Management, founded in 2014 in London, is a venture capital firm funding financial technology startups that have the potential to effect real change within capital markets. Since late 2015, folks at Illuminate have been investing from the IFM … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]The vast majority of Europeans do their banking locally, earning on their savings whatever is paid by the banks in their home markets. Raisin aims to change that. Founded as SavingGlobal in 2012 and based in Berlin, Raisin is an … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]One of the toughest things for any B2C FinTech startup is finding cost-effective client acquisition strategies that scale. At European robo-advisor Scalable Capital, that challenge falls to Ella Rabener, co-founder and CMO. This is the second of a two-part interview. … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 0 ]Founded in December of 2014, Scalable Capital is a European online investment manager with 40 employees and offices in Munich and London. It has raised more than $12 million in two rounds, the most recent of which closed in April. … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ ]Last January, I attended the inaugural Paris Fintech Forum, a one-day affair that brought together more than 600 attendees. Despite the name, this is really an international FinTech event. Sessions were held in a combination of French and English (depending … READ MORE
COMMENTS [ 7 ]“If no one seems to understand, start your own revolution and cut out the middleman.”
“I’m not even sure what I want, but that’s not the point – it’s that I want it now.”
“Whenever the old gives way to the new, everybody with vested interests in the old starts crying that the world will stop. There aren’t many people with vested interests in the new.”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
Boston-based @catchbenefits, which is rethinking benefits for freelancers, contractors, and gig workers, reveals $5.1MM seed round led by @khoslaventures with participation by @nycapartners and others. https://t.co/0NC2tmMVY2 Congrats to @KristenTyrrell! #FinTech
You will get the barest glimpse of digital innovation efforts at @natixis in this Q&A with @barnaud50 and @pierreleger: https://t.co/UFSxZRnD9z #FinTech #89C3R
Alternative data platform provider @Thinknum raises $11.6MM Series A. https://t.co/vio00R2mCB Congrats to @ugwigr! #FinTech
. @EY_US is now lead sponsor and exclusive advisory services partner of @fintechsandbox https://t.co/ACfX5aiRNv #FinTech
Eric Holder lands a highly lucrative gig that requires very little time and absolutely no heavy lifting: https://t.co/vPhqjJY7Ri
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