Capital markets

PayPal Ventures is part of an investment group that has raised $4.2 million for cryptocurrency risk management platform TRM Labs.

The State Bank Group and The Provident Bank are backing Neocova, which focuses on community banks.

HMBradley will assign interest rates according to how much customers set aside from direct deposits each month.

Fresh off its support of the Apple Card — deemed "the most successful credit card launch ever" by Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon — the investment bank is fueling another card-as-a-service platform.

E-commerce and multi-channel fraud prevention software provider Riskified has received $165 million in a Series E funding round led by global growth investor General Atlantic.

The new CEO is the first outsider to head the scandal-ridden bank in decades; Facebook CEO faces the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday to discuss Libra.

Galileo has raised $77 million in its first round of venture capital funding backed by Accel and Ryan Smith, CEO of the software firm Qualtrics.

The U.K.-based fintech says that a recent crowdfunding campaign shows demand for its product, even though the amount it raised is well below funds obtained from VCs.

The company will use the funds to increase research and development efforts as well as expand its global presence.

Oak HC/FT is the lead investor in a $100 million round in Rapyd, a company that’s designed to serve a complex international supply chain.

Klar has completed two funding rounds — one for equity and one for debt — raising over $57 million in funding, including Santander’s InnoVentures as an equity investor.

The major technology companies that have chipped away at incumbent payment businesses face much larger competition from this year’s big processing mergers, but they’ve also bulked up through fundraising and product development.

Myers has thrived as head of global capital equity markets by heeding the leadership advice of her mentor, the late Jimmy Lee: Focus on the people she'd take with her if she ever left J.P. Morgan to start her own firm.

Under McLaughlin, PNC's capital markets arm is pivoting away from handling transactional banking products to providing more advisory services, and the results has been double-digit revenue growth.

By turning to investors outside traditional banking, private-equity firms are finding it easier than ever to get loans to finance their buyouts of corporations that are nowhere close to being profitable.

A mortgage industry executive with ties to a firm penalized in a U.S. predatory lending crackdown is being considered by the Trump administration to run Ginnie Mae, according to people familiar with the matter.

Goldman Sachs, Elevar Equity and QED Investors are among institutions financing Mexican lenders that fund SMEs.

Mission Lane, which was spun off from LendUp in December, said Monday that Shane Holdaway took the helm in August after roughly a year serving as CEO of Barclays' U.S. consumer bank. The upstart lender also announced that it has raised $200 million in equity funding.

Plaid, the San Francisco-based financial technology infrastructure provider, has received strategic investments from Mastercard and Visa as part of a $250 million round of funding. Plaid did not disclose the two networks' specific investments.

Make market volatility great again? Analysts at JPMorgan Chase have created an index to gauge the impact of Donald Trump's tweets on U.S. interest rates, which they say is on the rise.