BehavioSec boosted by $17.5m funding
Behavioural biometrics company now has total funding of almost $26 million.
USA
Payoneer partners with Waze to power local payments
Currently available in Texas, California and Israel.
Fintech funding round-up: 29 January 2018
Features Tender Armor, OpenDoor, Duco and Sancus Finance.
Volante and BNY Mellon team for paytech innovation
To enable real-time payments in the US and internationally.
Infographic: the future of identity
Nifty infographic based on the IBM Security Future of Identity Study.
StreetShares brings in $23m in equity funding
StreetShares has landed $23 million in equity funding, bringing total investment to $43 million.
New bank to launch in California, Endeavor Bank
First new bank to open in San Diego in ten years and one of only two new banks in California since 2010.
AutoGravity forces its way past $2bn in financing
Things are looking up for US mobile auto shopping and financing start-up.
Roostify integrates with LendingTree
Consumers can find a loan while Roostify keeps the mortgage origination process online.
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Geezeo powers PFM platform for F&M Bank of Virginia
“Stow away” savings with Squirrel.
Banking tech round-up: 25 January 2018
Features Yolt, Chevy Chase Trust, FIS, Haven Savings Bank and Connecticut Online Computer Centre.
JP Morgan Chase invests $20bn for new branches and jobs
Includes 400 new branches, 4,000 jobs and an increase in staff wages across the US.
Payfone in its element with O2 digital partnership
Initiative aims to protect mobile users from fraud.
Expensify ends 2017 on an all-time high
US travel and expense management firm in receipt of good news.
2,000+ bank branches closed in US in 2017
Digital is all the rage now for US banks.
SoFi’s choice: former Twitter COO to take helm as new CEO
Social media’s loss is social finance’s big gain.
Zopa enhances executive ranks with new trio
En route to its launch of a challenger bank later this year.
Cloudian bridges storage from data centre to cloud
US firm is making an extra effort to live up to its name.
Member Driven Technologies adds four US credit unions
They all opt for Symitar Episys core banking platform.
Dwolla to power ID verification for Yahoo’s Tanda savings app
Tanda app is intended to be used as an alternative to credit cards or short term loans
WealthForge tops $500m in investments processed
US-based private placement platform feeling perky.
Fintech funding round-up: 22 January 2018
Features Oval Money, TradeCore, Paytronix Systems and Hippo.
Microsoft gets support of privacy groups in data battle against US
Privacy International files an amicus brief on behalf of 26 organisations in support of Microsoft.
HSBC can’t dodge DoJ’s $63m fine for major FX up
Part of a three-year deferred prosecution agreement with the US Department of Justice.
Lending firm Defi Solutions definitely lands $55m
The Series C funding round comes from Bain Capital Ventures.
ThreatMetrix teams up with GlobalOnePay
Will power GlobalOnePay’s Sentinel Defend, a fraud detection and scoring engine.
Salesforce, IBM and Google relationship status: it’s complicated
It’s like cloud provider kindergarten! Everybody’s special!
Jumio teams with Byteball to bring KYC to ICO issuers
When the gold rush is on, perhaps it’s better to sell picks and shovels to the miners.
Citi plays Cupid for university talent search
Shoot that fintech arrow to my heart!
ShopKeep all over First Data’s Clover POS technology
Cloud payments and point-of-sale (POS) system start-up ShopKeep deepens ties.
Flywire acquires payments firm OnPlan Holdings
Buys OnPlanU and OnPlan Health, both subsidiaries of OnPlan Holdings.
Amazon taps 20 locations as finalists for second HQ
It’s the hottest competition since “The Bachelor”.
US Congressman looking for answers about Spectre and Meltdown
Has written letters to the CEOs of Intel, AMD and ARM.
Cisco’s ex-boss launches VC firm
He also praises eating insects.
TCS drools over two delicious insurtech deals for $2.7bn
Two separate deals with Prudential and Transamerica.
Workday acquires machine learning start-up SkipFlag
SkipFlag uses deep learning to help enterprises make sense of data they collect each day.
Silver Lake and P2 Capital Partners to buy Blackhawk Network for $3.5bn
US investment firms go for an all-cash transaction, which includes Blackhawk’s debt.
Houlihan Lokey to buy Quayle Munro for data analytics drive
Los Angeles-based investment bank to acquire UK independent advisory firm.
SS&C to acquire DST Systems for $5.4bn
Looking for more market opportunities for outsourcing in financial services.
