Venture capital

The skeptics keep waiting for investment in financial startups to dry up, but it doubled in the first half of 2018. KPMG's Safwan Zaheer explains why.

Some startups are eschewing San Francisco and New York to set up shop in the middle of America. And for good reason.

The money flowing into alternative merchant acquiring is feeding an arms race, with each new deal adding pressure to become an automated one-stop shop for small businesses.

The California company also benefited from higher interest rates and double-digit loan growth.

Denver-based P2Binvestor plans to use the new funds to expand its bank partnership program.

Ben Holzman helped build Bain Capital Ventures' enterprise software practice.

PayPal Holdings Inc. is teaming up with Indonesian venture-capital firm Alpha JWC Ventures to back emerging financial technologies that can be developed for Southeast Asia.

Equity warrants. Capital calls. Off-balance-sheet accounts. SVB's unusual business model thrives on financing rainmakers and cutting-edge firms, but old-school issues like overconcentration, unpredictable fee income and stock market swings lurk in the background.

The fintech wants to facilitate loans for elective surgeries, auto repairs and jewelry purchases, but regulatory uncertainty — at the state and federal levels — casts a cloud over its business model.

A 20% increase in lending, largely to players in the tech industry, helped the California company offset a one-time loss tied to an investment in the streaming company Roku.

A startup called Spring Labs has launched a blockchain network with the goal of getting lenders and data providers to share data to help verify customers' identity.

Just two months after going all-in on crypto, venture firm Full Tilt Capital LLC has been acquired by a hedge fund looking to make a big bet on blockchain.

Constellation Digital Partners, LLC, has raised $26 million in the last 10 months.

Legacy financial firms like the big credit bureau are seeking out financial technology to diversify themselves, bring new products to market faster and meet the needs of global customers.

The venture capital firm Anthemis seeded 21 fintech startups in its first discretionary fund, which raised $106 million. It favors management teams made up of people from all walks of life who have fresh ideas about shaking up banking and insurance.

U.S. fintechs attracted $5.8 billion in the fourth quarter as institutions sought an AI edge.

Payworks has raised $14.5 million in a Series B funding round with several participants including Visa and CommerzVentures.

Pacing is one of the largely unchallenged themes of fintech—new ideas come up every few months that require an almost constant state of new tech deployment. But it doesn't really work that way, says Steve Sarracino, CEO and founder of Activant Capital.

The private equity firms plan to sell a total of 3 million shares in the Houston company in coming weeks.

A fintech investment surge is underway across Europe. What’s unknown is how the looming Brexit situation may affect the U.K.’s strong fintech momentum, and where exactly funds would flow if talent and startups flee Britain.