Mobile retail platform NewStore has secured $50m Series B funding round led by Activant Capital.

Accounting software provider FreshBooks has raised $43m for its Series B funding round led by Georgian Partners.

Venture capital’s domination of the FinTech sector could be under threat as private equity heavyweights begin to sink their teeth into the steadily evolving market. One of the buyout majors at the head of the pack is Lovell Minnick Partners, which is turning its attention to the rising sub-verticals of payments, cyber security, RegTech and soon InsurTech, according to firm...

FinTech investment in the second quarter of 2017 was three times the amount seen in Q2 of last year Swedish FinTech companies received $181m in funding across 25 deals in Q2 2017. The $181m investment is more than three times the $56m invested in Q2 2016. The 25-deal haul made Q2 2017 a record quarter for FinTech investments in...

The FinTech sector saw nearly $9bn-worth of investment across 374 deals in Q2 2017 as the year funding picked up pace Overall FinTech funding grew by 50.8% to $8.9bn in Q2 2017 compared with the opening quarter of year, which closed at $5.9bn. This was despite an 8.6% fall in deal activity, down to 374 deals from 409 in...

RegTech company Contego Fraud Solutions has netted a £3.5m investment led by Maven Capital Partners.

Delivery courier insurance platform Zego has raised ?1.2m in seed funding led by LocalGlobe.

Payment processing platform Form3 Financial Cloud has raised $5m in a strategic investment from firms including Barclays, the Angel CoFund, among others.

New York-based pre-IPO stock platform EquityZen has secured $3m in its latest round of funding led by Draper Associates.

Credit Risk platform James has reportedly up picked $2.7m in a funding round led by angel investor Ga?l de Boissard.