Investment

You may not know it by looking at bitcoin’s recent price surge, but the infrastructure underpinning the world’s most popular virtual currency is teetering.

The fintech firm will use the $5.5 million in funding to expand its operations and improve its products.

Host Brett King reports from this week's LendIt conference in New York.

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The question is more than academic. At stake is the role blockchain technology can play in lowering the costs of raising money.

By relying heavily on where a borrower went to college, online lenders may run afoul with regulators and could be missing out on good credits.

Innovate Indiana is taking part in a $2.6 million investment in Rippleshot, a company that uses artificial intelligence to detect card fraud.

The cross-border payments startup will use proceeds from its Series D round to fuel growth.

Qapital's funding round comes as banks are increasingly adding money management tools to their mobile apps.

ID.me raised $19 million in a Series B round that was led by FTV Capital and included USAA.