April 11, 2017 @ 11:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Platform as a service company, Katipult, announced on Tuesday it formed a partnership with Fineqia to bring risk-mitigated investment to the crowd. According to the companies, Fineqia will use Katipult’s crowdfunding software product to start its UK business that will bring crowd investors to some… Read More

April 11, 2017 @ 11:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday that its latest small business lending index revealed that loan approval rates at institutional investors and small banks improved in March 2017. Big banks’ ($10 billion-plus in assets) loan approval was stagnant during the month but remained at an all-time Index… Read More

April 11, 2017 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lender focusing on SME loans, Growth Street, announced on Tuesday it has appointed April Nardulli as its new General Counsel and Chris Weller as its new Commercial Director.  According to Growth Street, Nardulli has previous experience in London’s fintech industry and most recently held the senior regulatory counsel position… Read More

April 11, 2017 @ 9:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Transfluent, a Finland-based translation agency, recently launched its equity crowdfunding campaign on Invesdor. The company is currently seeking €1.5 Million through the initiative as it prepares to expand. Founded in 2011, Transfluent stated its platform was originally tailored for the rapid needs of social-media powered global… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 5:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Independent financial advisory organization, deVere Group, announced on Monday it is launching its new global e-money app, deVere Vault. According to deVere Group, the debut of deVere Vault has been facilitated by the company receiving its e-money banking license. While sharing details about the new app, Nigel… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 4:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Silicon Valley Bank announced on Monday that it joined forces with First Data to launch a fintech focused accelerator program, Commerce.Innovated. 2017. According to the bank, this four-month virtual program provides participants with operational mentorship from Silicon Valley Bank, First Data, and their networks. Commerce.Innovated., which… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 2:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunded brewery, BrewDog, announced on Monday it received a £100 million investment from San Francisco-based company, TSG Consumer Partners. According to the brewery, TSG has acquired approximately 22% of BrewDog plc, with the funds are going into the business for continued expansion, and to create early shareholder… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 1:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based Starling Bank announced on Monday the launch of its new Developer Portal, which now enables third-parties to securely access customer data and builds on top of the Starling Platform using the mobile-only bank’s Application Programming Interface (APIs). According to Starling Bank, the APIs allow external… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LoanHero, a retail fintech and loan origination platform for automated lending to consumers at the point of need, announced on Monday it appointed Zalman Vitenson, Olaf Janke, and Mikel Sides, to its executive management team. Vitenson is now the company’s CEO, Janke is the new CFO, and Sides is… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 11:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CreditEase Wealth Management announced on Sunday it has formed a global strategic partnership with real estate developer, operator and investment manager, Tishman Speyer, in Beijing in order to extend global cooperation in resource sharing, fund investment, buyouts and business development.    According to CreditEase Wealth Management, with an… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 11:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

European-based lending platform Spotcap announced on Monday the launch of its new fintech fellowship, which is geared towards aspiring graduate students. According to the online lender, the program will provide one student per academic year with a £8,000 stipend towards their studies. While sharing details about the… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 10:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based peer-to-peer-secured lending platforms, Lendy, announced on Monday its latest report reveals that the number of new residential mortgages worth over £1 million went up by 24% last year (ending September 30, 2016), as banks continue to favor lending to owner-occupiers and reduce lending to property… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 9:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based fintech firm, Yielders, announced on Monday it is now regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The company claims it is the UK’s first ever Islamic fintech firm to be directly authorized by the FCA and the milestone shows significant validation by the supervisory body of… Read More

April 10, 2017 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lender Lendix announced on Monday that Bpifrance has joined its lending platform through a co-financing fund. Along with Bpifrance, Lendix has reported attracted other leading investors to the fund, including CNP Assurances, Groupama, Zencap AM (OFI group), Matmut or the “Prêtons Ensemble” fund managed by Eiffel… Read More

April 8, 2017 @ 8:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tellybean, a family video call service company based in Finland, has successfully secured its initial €375,000 Invesdor crowdfunding campaign target. The initiative was launched at the end of February and is set to close on Tuesday (April 11th). The company states its technology brings families together in… Read More

April 8, 2017 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

‘Following the launch its of its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, Sugru announced more than 1800 target stores in the U.S. now has its new kits. The company revealed in a recent update: “We’re delighted to share the news that Target has just confirmed… Read More

April 8, 2017 @ 10:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than one week after launching the Gloomhaven (Second Printing) Kickstarter campaign, Isaac Childres’ project has successfully secured nearly $1.6 million from more than 17,300 backers. The original Gloomhaven campaign successfully secured $386,104 from 4,904 backers in September 2015. As previously reported, Gloomhaven is described as a cooperative card-drive… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 4:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gather Online, an Australia-based gather and share platform, has successfully secured its initial £245,000 funding target on equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs. The website launched the initiative recently to raise the funds for expansion. As previously reported, Gather Online was launched in early 2015 and describes as a… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 3:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Oil and gas crowdfunding platform Crudefunders announced on Friday that the Aquinas TL Smith #25 Well, which was successfully funded last fall, went into production on March 30th. The funding portal now boasts the project as being America’s first Reg CF oil well. As previously reported, the… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 2:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, Finnovation Africa: Uganda 2017 opened in Kampala and brought together more than 300 fintech leaders that are seeking to drive the constructive transformation of banking and financial services across Africa.  According to the organizers, the conference opened with a keynote session featuring international fintech… Read More