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Funding Societies Named Winner Of a Silver Stevie Award in Innovation in Technology Category at the Asia-Pacfic Stevie Awards

Funding Societies, one of the largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms in Southeast Asia, announced on Tuesday it was named the winner of a Silver Stevie Award last week in the Innovation in Technology category in the seventh annual Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. The online lender claims… Read More

Konsileo Celebrates Ā£8M Raise for UK Expansion

Chartered commercial broker Konsileo has completed a Ā£8 million raise to accelerate its expansion across the UK. Konsileo specializes in mid-market advised sales for small, medium, and mid-corporate businesses. The Ā£8 million raise is a mixture of debt and equity financing led by long-term shareholders… Read More

OneID Raises Ā£1M to Make Digital Identification More Accessible in the UK

OneID, the sole provider of bank-verified digital identification services in the UK, has successfully secured Ā£1m in fresh funding from ACF Investors. Established in 2020, OneID plans to use the newly acquired capital to advance its product development and reinforce its commitment to making the… Read More

Digital Wealth Advisory Platform Endowus Increases Total Funding to $110M+

Endowus, Asiaā€™s digital wealth advisory platform has increased its total funding to over $110 million. As noted in the announcement, an additional raise of $17.5 million follows from their $35 million raise last year to take the total for this round to $52.5M. New investors… Read More

Digital Assets Platform CoinList Explains Why RIAs Are Embracing Crypto Staking

According to a report by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), over 15,000 registered investment advisers (RIAs) in the U.S. were managing around $128 trillion in assets by the end of last year. CoinList pointed out that this appears to underscore the expanding role… Read More

UK Tech Ecosystem Report: Enterprise Apps and Fintech Were Top-Performing Sectors in H1 2024

Tracxn, a global SaaS-based market intelligence platform, has released its Geo Semi-Annual Report: UK Tech H1 2024. The report, based on Tracxnā€™s database, provides insights into the UK Tech space. The UK is said to be “the second-highest funded tech startup ecosystem in H1 2024,… Read More

Watershed Moment for Digital Assets Industry: Crypto Industry Reacts to Spot Bitcoin ETF Approvals by SEC

As expected by most industry analysts and also after an embarrassing false start (following the official SEC X account being “compromised”) the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally approved 11 spot bitcoin ETF applications – which were submitted by traditional financial and crypto-focused… Read More

Shanghai Allows Withdrawals of Staked ETH for the First Time. Stake Now to Optimize this Opportunity

The Shanghai hard fork is projected to unfold this spring around March or April, with the anticipated upgrade affording the capability to withdraw Ethereum from staking for the first time. Ethereum staking rewards participating in network consensus, and in order to participate, one needs to… Read More

Blockchain based Luxury Platform GUHADA Completes Series B Round

B2B B2B2C blockchain based luxury platform GUHADA recently announced that it has completed attracting an 8 billion KRW Series B investment. Leading domestic venture capital firms such as Korea Investment Partners, Woori Bank,Ā  DTNI Investment (DTNI), BM Ventures participated in the Series B investment round…. Read More

Indian Neobank RazorPay Reveals that Number of Digital Payments via Platform have Increased 80% YoY

If we ask people to name their ā€œbestā€ or ā€œworstā€ year ever, their answers might differ, RazorPay notes. However, if we want them to arrive at the ā€œmost-common answerā€ (in terms of unprecedented challenges due to COVID-19), then last yearā€™s pandemic would probably be it,… Read More

UK based Property Finance Platform LendInvest Claims it’s Well-Prepared to Deal with New COVID-19 Lockdown Measures

UK-based LendInvest, a property finance platform, has reportedly told its investors that itā€™s well-prepared to deal with new lockdown measures. This, after making upgrades to its business processes, risk mitigation efforts and various financial metrics during the lockdown enforced in March of last year. The… Read More

Fintech SoFi Notes that Q4 2020 M&A + IPO Spike was Much Higher than 2008 Financial Crisis and Other Periods of Downturn

San Francisco-based SoFi, a financial services firm that helps people ā€œget their money rightā€”save, spend, borrow, and invest in one app,ā€ has noted that 2020 was a year to remember. Industries were forced to adapt to changing consumer behavior, capital markets fluctuated wildly, and people… Read More

Nordic Challenger Bank Lunar Reportedly Raises ā‚¬40 Million Through Series C Funding Round

Nordic challenger bank Lunar has reportedly secured ā‚¬40 million through its Series C funding round. The latest round of funding comes just months after Lunar raised an additional ā‚¬20 million through its extended Series B, bringing the funding roundā€™s total amount to ā‚¬46 million raised…. Read More

Digital Assets: How the Pandemic Can be a Catalyst for Innovation in Professional Sports

  Tokenization Provides Endless Possibilities for Teams and their Fans. Professional sports have been deeply stitched into the fabric of American society for well over a century, providing a daily source of joy (or pain if youā€™re a Mets fan), and serving as a refuge… Read More

Perspective: Encourage Affordable Housing through ā€œCommunity Investorā€ Crowdfunding Rules

Incentivize Affordable Housing through Crowdfunding Liberalization for Community Investors In recent decades, increases in urban employment and population have outpaced residential development in U.S. cities. Nationwide, from 1974 through 2008, the number of new homes exceeded the number of new households. But since 2009, the… Read More

China: WeiyangX Fintech Review

Chinaā€™s State Council Approves the Research and Development of CBDC At the launching ceremony and the first academic seminar of the Digital Finance Open Research Project held on July 8th, Wang Xin, director of the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China, revealed that… Read More

Chinese Crypto Exchange CoinAll Lists Lambda (LAMB)

Chinese cryptocurrency exchange CoinAll announced on Tuesday it has listed Lambda (LAMB) on its platform. CoinAll describes Lambda as a safe, reliable and infinitely expanding decentralized storage network, whose mission is to promote the development of the Internet decentralization and build storage infrastructure for the… Read More

The SEC Suspends Trading in American Retail Group, Operator of Simex Crypto Exchange

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an order to suspend trading in shares of American Retail Group, Inc. which trade on OTC Markets (OTC:ARGB). Trading was said to be halted due to “statements about partnering with a claimed SEC-qualified custodian for use with… Read More

Game Changer: 7 Approved Platforms to Provide “Crowd-Sourced Funding” in Australia, Equitise Immediately Lists First Equity Crowdfund Offer

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) announced yesterday it had approved the licensing of the first seven “crowd-sourced funding” platforms. Due to a recent change in Australia’s security regulations, these investment crowdfunding platforms may allow businesses to raise up to $5 million – all… Read More

ThinCats Reveals New Branding, Launches Updated Website

SME peer to peer lender ThinCats has launched a new website and branding designed to position itself for its next phase of growth in 2018. The new website, which has been designed to be easier to navigate, with delineated areas for investors, businesses and their… Read More

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