Venture funding

Startups take on stress-testing tech

01/20/19

Fintechs are developing data-crunching, automated products that seek to help banks precisely calibrate capital levels. The banks' goal is to pass stress tests while maximizing returns to investors.

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Fintech funding reaches new high

01/09/19

Efforts to build better connections to bank customer data, trade digital currency and explore artificial intelligence for security and compliance purposes were some of the biggest draws of fundraising for U.S. startups.

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How blockchain, smart contracts could upstage banks

01/08/19

Its early days yet, but decentralized apps will democratize finance, says Andrew Keys, cofounder of ConsenSys Capital, the financial services arm of ConsenSys.

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Blockchain startup inches closer to legally tradable tokens

12/21/18

Prometheum may succeed whether others have failed because it has attempted to work closely with regulators.

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This fintech is taking anti-bank marketing to extremes. It may pay for it

12/19/18

Good Money just raised $30 million and is a year away from launching, but already is raising concerns for its trash-talking of established players.

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Crypto asset startup founded by ex-BNY Mellon banker raises $8 million

12/06/18

Trustology protects private keys to digital assets the way parking valets look after car keys.

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‘There needs to be some clarity' on data sharing: Yodlee founder

12/04/18

Schwark Satyovolu, original co-founder of Yodlee and current venture capitalist at Trinity Ventures, shares opinion on how consumer data sharing is evolving.

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SunTrust's AI investment fuels a future of payments by digital assistants

12/03/18

Banks are facing the potential of disruption by digital assistants from Apple, Amazon and Google — and are pouring money into machine learning to provide their own option for automating consumers' financial lives.

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SunTrust's AI investment fuels a future of payments by digital assistants

12/03/18

Banks are facing the potential of disruption by digital assistants from Apple, Amazon and Google — and are pouring money into machine learning to provide their own option for automating consumers' financial lives.

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Could smart contracts sideline banks?

11/19/18

Andrew Keys, co-founder of the venture capital firm ConsenSys Capital, has a vision of the future bankers might find chilling, in which banks and other middlemen are cut out of financial services.

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