The British bank Barclays has announced a new twist on its Pingit mobile payments app – users will be able to transfer money to one another using their Twitter handles. Pingit,… Read more »
Professional investors known as quants use hard facts about companies — share price, EBITDA, and so on — to inform the algorithms that carry out their automated trading strategies. But softer sources… Read more »
London-based online currency transfer outfit TransferWise has raised a $58 million Series C round that was led by Andreessen Horowitz. This follows a $25 million Series B round just seven months… Read more »
The Finnish company is gunning for makers and small businesses that want a web-centric kind of checking account with functionality ranging from web shops to invoicing, and with the ability to… Read more »
Part of the original “PayPal Mafia” and also formerly of Slide, Max Levchin has made a return to financial services startups with his newest venture, Affirm. Read more »
We’ve covered TransferWise quite a few times – along with one or two rivals such as CurrencyFair, the London-based financial technology startup offers a genuinely disruptive foreign exchange service that significantly… Read more »
The EU regulatory agency wants consumers who are considering jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon to realize that there’s not much in the way of regulation to protect them. Read more »
Backed by Passion Capital and TransferWise chief Taavet Hinrikus, Coinfloor is the first serious Bitcoin trading operation to open in London’s fintech hub. U.S. customers aren’t allowed in just yet, though… Read more »
Terms of the deal have not been revealed, but it will help the British moneylender in its quest to become a heavyweight international digital finance group. Read more »