Another Day, Another Bitcoin: After the Bitfinex Hack
#Phelpsface when you talk about Bitfinex security It's been just about a week since the bitcoin exchange Bitfinex was hacked,...
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Why Walmart Bought Jet.com
After a week of speculation, it has been officially announced that Walmart will acquire innovative ecommerce company #JetCom, for which...
Lending Club Mulls Committing Capital to Venture Fund After Brutal 2Q
Lending Club survived a brutal second quarter (barely) and is considering some fundamental changes to thrive going forward. Specifically, the...
Why Institutions Trump “The Crowd” When it Comes to Raising Growth Capital [Sponsored]
Institutional vs. Crowdfunding I am a big proponent of crowdfunding. Unfortunately, equity crowdfunding is still experiencing the growing pains of...
Innovation Helps EverBank Score a Higher Acquisition Multiple
EverBank Financial Corp. today scored a valuation multiple of nearly 22x earnings in its sale to TIAA. No wonder the EverBank...
Top 5 Fintech Raises: Deliveroo, Yunnex, TransferWise
Fintech funding is growing scarce? Maybe, but there are still plenty of big raises to speak of. The five biggest...
Disney Adds Messaging Service for Kids with Games (and Payments?)
What do you call the generation that comes after millennials? For now they're just kids, but soon they'll be a...
Fiserv, PayPal and Square Join Visa Direct Realtime Network
The ubiquity of realtime money transfers in the U.S. took a step forward with yesterday's news that Visa Direct was partnering...
Capital One Joins Effort to Educate Seniors About Online Banking
Banks only care about millennials, right? Not really, though marketing about digital efforts may make it appear that way. Yesterday Capital One, a...
GoBank for Uber Revs Up
GoBank launched an account for the "gig economy" in March, and its first test case was the rideshare giant Uber....
