December 8, 2016 @ 5:07 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mambu, the SaaS banking platform provider, announced the opening of its first office in the APAC region. Mambu’s APAC clients are spread across China and South East Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand, accounting for nearly a third of the company’s total business to date…. Read More

December 8, 2016 @ 4:40 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Currently four campaigns are seriously overfunding on the German crowdfunding platform Companisto. AMG Sicherheitstechnik, a German-based company with 12 years of experience in counseling and sales and over 50,000 clients worldwide, which launched a burglar chasing system branded Alarmtab and closes this Friday has raised over 730,070€… Read More

December 8, 2016 @ 3:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Visa has partnered with the Hong Kong-based VC firm and incubator Nest to run a four-day fintech bootcamp in Nairobi for innovative startups in Africa, according to a release. Nest mentors will join executives from Visa’s teams in Kenya, South Africa, and the UAE to coach selected… Read More

December 1, 2016 @ 10:02 am By Erin Hobey  |  

TWINO Group, a European consumer lender which has been operating since 2009 with its P2P lending platform launching in 2015, provides unsecured consumer loans for private individuals in ten countries, including Poland, Russia and Georgia, with an intention to move into Mexico. TWINO’s P2P lending platform offers… Read More

December 1, 2016 @ 9:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Societe Generale today announced a new agreement with Smartkarma, an informational online investment platform which focuses on the Asian markets. Under this global agreement, Societe Generale will provide its institutional clients access to a new form of equity research based on demand driven and customised… Read More

December 1, 2016 @ 9:16 am By Erin Hobey  |  

National Funding, this year’s title sponsor of the Holiday Bowl, announced today that the platform has pledged up to $100,000 to match all public ticket donations for first responders and military service members. To date, National Lending has deployed more than $1.5 billion nationally. The San Diego business community… Read More

December 1, 2016 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

PeerIQ, a data and analytics provider in the marketplace lending sector, and TransUnion (NYSE: TRU), a global information solutions provider, today announced a strategic partnership to bring enhanced transparency and insight to alternative lending markets. “Our partnership with TransUnion is a significant milestone for us, and… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 6:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

  Managing Director Pepe Borrell has been a force behind financial disruption and innovation in Spain, navigating Spanish, Catalan and British financial regulations and raising international funding for national startups and SMEs. Borrell entered the crowdfunding sector with experience garnered from time spent as a consultant for RJCE,… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 10:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

During the last week Spanish fitness center DiR‘s crowdfunding campaign has gained traction. With 18 days remaining on its Crowdcube Spain campaign, the fitness center chain DiR founded in Barcelona by CEO Ramon Canela in 1979 is now 120% overfunding, having raised over 432,475€ of its initial 360,000€ goal. The largest investment to date has… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 9:59 am By Erin Hobey  |  

ING plans to discontinue its P2P mobile payments app Twyp in the Netherlands after it failed to gain traction with customers, according to a release. Twyp CEO Mohamed de Booij indicated the decision to close down the service in the Netherlands was made following feedback from Dutch… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 9:05 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Money360, a commercial real estate marketplace lending platform, announced today that it has provided a $10.5 million bridge loan for a fully occupied, single-tenant suburban office complex in the Southern California coastal community of Signal Hill, California. “This was an attractive investment for several reasons,”… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 8:48 am By Erin Hobey  |  

A team of Finnish Nokia-alumni are tackling the question of how photo editing can become as intuitive and efficient as the act of taking the photos themselves and have lined on a solution:  Loupedeck, a console controller for Adobe Lightroom, which aims to allow for… Read More

November 24, 2016 @ 8:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With global news feeds covering countless US turkey day traffic jams, StartEngine’s new Jetpack Aviation campaign may provide the solution to next year’s dilemma…for pickup up missing ingredients or arriving early to or leaving quickly from Thanksgiving dinner. “JetPack Aviation is the first company to… Read More

November 24, 2016 @ 7:28 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Luxembourg government and its private sector partners announced the appointment of Nasir Zubairi as CEO of Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT). “I am excited to be working with the stakeholders in the Luxembourg community to progress fintech innovation. Luxembourg has great potential for fintech… Read More

November 24, 2016 @ 7:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

OppLoans has extended its lending operations to include Georgia and Mississippi, targeting underserved customers with less-than-perfect credit. For those who qualify, OppLoans is now offering personal loans up to $5,000 in Georgia and up to $2,500 in Mississippi. “OppLoans is proud to add Georgia and Mississippi to our suite of online loan products that offer lower interest rates and far more flexible… Read More

November 24, 2016 @ 6:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cashboard, a Berlin-based online investment startup, announced that it has raised €3 million from a Luxembourg-based fintech fund Digital Space Ventures and from its existing investors Redalpine Capital and Earlybird. A recent KPMG and CB Insights report stated that German fintech is attracting more investment than… Read More

November 22, 2016 @ 9:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Goldman Sachs is no longer part of the R3 CEV blockchain group, according to the WSJ. Founded in 2014 by CEO David Rutter to explore the use of the distributed database technology, especially for tech utilizing bitcoin, R3 CEV explores way banks can save billions of dollars through streamlining outdated… Read More

November 22, 2016 @ 8:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Yesterday afternoon six children were killed when their school bus crashed into a tree in Chattanooga, Tennessee; in addition, nearly two dozen Woodmore Elementary School students were taken to the hospital after the accident.  The driver of the bus, Johnthony Walker, has been charged with vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment… Read More

November 22, 2016 @ 8:13 am By Erin Hobey  |  

It’s hard to believed that 500 Startups launched just six years ago given its influence.  1600+ companies, 60+ countries and 3,000 founders later, Co-Founder Dave McClure utilized the platform’s blog to reflect on the last years progress and to look forward to the company’s next… Read More

November 17, 2016 @ 10:51 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With 30 days remaining on its Crowdcube Spain campaign, the Barcelona fitness center chain DiR founded by CEO Ramon Canela in 1979 is going strong. Over 40% of the 360,000€ has been reached, just over 150K€ secured from over 48 investors. The largest investment to date has… Read More