Insurance is just one vertical where startups are trying to declutter the user experiences, to create more efficient services which provide customers with greater transparency.

Traditional financial services providers in Australia are not too worried about FinTech disruption, the country's first ever sector survey shows.

Square is expanding its loans offering to small businesses outside of its payments processing ecosystem.

Bitcoin exchange Bitfineix is up and running again after last week suffering a security breach that saw 19,756 bitcoins stolen from users’ accounts.

European payments providers are bullish on the impact that blockchain will have on their industry.

Vistara Capital Partners and Beedie Capital Partners have committed $10m in additional growth capital to Zafin.

All-in-one personal finance app developer Exeq has picked up $1.5m in seed money to back its launch early next year. New York City angel investors led the financing round for Exeq, which will target millenials through its budgeting tool, automated goal-based savings accounts, robo investment portfolios and tailored financial alerts. Exeq expects its app to be available on iPhone and Android next year,...

London-based fintech startup Loot, which runs a banking app targeted at millennial customers, has raised £2.5m in its latest financing round.

UK FinTech startup CoInvestor has secured £1.1m in a new seed round and added a new member to its advisory board.

Regulators have to be vigilant about developments in the FinTech sector as its importance is bound to grow in the future, Svein Andresen has said.