The company has now facilitated over $400 million in international money transfers. And with new features such as a mobile app, payments to email addresses and an embeddable payment button, TransferWise… Read more »
Waze co-founder Uri Levine has raised $3 million from Blumberg Capital for his latest startup FeeX, which aims to help consumers save money on financial fees. Read more »
Financial regulators and company registration indexes are increasingly opening up their data. OpenCorporates is gluing that data together and visualizing it in a way that should not only help fight corruption,… Read more »
The Google-backed distributed currency exchange, which is part of a new wave of international financial technology outfits, is trying to make it easier for people to pay others in the crypto-currency… Read more »
Thiel becomes the second PayPal co-founder to put money into the UK’s Transferwise, which lets users send money internationally at much lower rates than those offered by traditional banks. Read more »
The service, which is being pitched as “Mint.com meets IFTTT”, is targeted at startups that lack a CFO but that want to stay on top of the accounts they have with… Read more »
Customers of the UK fintech startup can now use their debit cards on the site, instead of having to visit their online bank in order to initiate a transfer. Canadian dollars… Read more »
The reasons that European entrepreneurs and investors are starting up financial technology companies are many — including opportunism, pragmatism and even fear. Read more »
SecondMarket, the online platform for trading shares in privately-held companies, is partnering with Startup Health to educate investors about digital health and allow them to invest in health tech companies and… Read more »
BancBox is formally launching its payment platform today, offering not just the ability to accept credit card and other payments, but also hold the funds in stored accounts and move it… Read more »