Sept 18 (Reuters) - Chime has raised $485 million in a new funding round that values the digital-only banking firm at $14.5 billion, a company spokeswoman said on Friday. At its latest valuation, Chime has now overtaken Robinhood as the most valuable U.S. fintech startup. Investors including Coatue, ICONIQ, Tiger Global, Whale Rock Capital, General Atlantic, Access Technology Ventures, Dragoneer and DST Global participated in the funding round. Chime is among a number of digital-only banking...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Deutsche Boerse DB1Gn.DE, on a mission to make acquisitions, said on Thursday that it would buy a majority stake in fintech Quantitative Brokers for an undisclosed sum. The German stock exchange operator has a 2 billion euro war chest for acquisitions and is currently vying to buy Borsa Italiana. Quantitative Brokers, which operates in New York, London, Sydney and Chennai, provides execution algorithms and analytics for futures, options and interest rate...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pagaya Investments, a U.S.-Israeli financial technology provider that uses machine learning and big data analytics to manage institutional money, said on Thursday it raised $14 million in a private funding round. The round was led by venture capital fund Oak HC/FT and Harvey Golub, the former chairman and CEO of American Express, who will join Pagaya’s board. GF Investments, Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank, Clal Insurance Ltd., and Viola Ventures also participated,...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The insurance unit of Brazil’s state-owned lender Caixa Economica Federal has agreed to create a new joint venture with France’s CNP Assurances SA (CNPP.PA) to sell life insurance products in the bank’s more than 4,000 branches in the country. In a securities filing, Caixa said CNP will pay 4.65 billion reais (868.64 million pounds)for a 40 percent stake in the joint venture, that has a contract to sell life insurance contracts through 2041. Caixa will own the remaining...

MADRID (Reuters) - The Bank of Spain’s website has been hit since Sunday by a cyber attack which has temporarily disrupted access to the site, a spokesman for the central bank said on Monday. An emblem on an entrance to the Bank of Spain building is seen in Madrid, Spain, May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Juan Medina/File Photo The spokesman said that the attack has not had any effect on the bank’s services or its communications with the European Central Bank or other institutions and that there was no...