December 2, 2020 @ 3:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Amount, a spin-off from online lender Avant, has raised an $81 million Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). This is an interesting investment for Goldman because they are looking to leverage Marcus to provide digital banking services to erstwhile competitors. Other investors… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 2:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Raisin, a top European Fintech that has created a highly successful deposits marketplace, has expanded its services into Italy in a new partnership with Banca Sella. Founded in 1886, Banca Sella is the retail and commercial bank of Sella Group, Italy’s largest privately owned and… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Grayscale Investments, sponsor of Grayscale Ethereum Trust (OTCQX: ETHE), has announced that it has declared a 9-for-1 split of the Trust’s common units. Shareholders of record as of December 14, 2020, will receive 8 additional shares of the Trust for each share held. The split… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Börse, the German stock exchange company, has completed the purchase of a majority stake in Quantitative Brokers. Quantitive Brokers is an algo heavy trading firm that leverages technology to provide trading analytics for clients – mainly utilized by some of the largest institutional investors… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 3:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Money app Ziglu says that its equity crowdfunding round is the largest offering on Seedrs for all of 2020. The securities offering closed on Seedrs this past fall. The Fintech raised over £6 million backed by about 1250 investors. Ziglu set a low-end hurdle of… Read More

December 2, 2020 @ 3:00 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, the world’s largest global investment crowdfunding platform, has partnered with Portuguese venture capital firm UnderRock Investments. This most recent partnership is part of a growing number of global alliances established by OurCrowd including: Stifel brokerage and investment banking firm, United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB)… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has announced an early salary feature available to UK customers. The new feature means that Revolut’s UK customers can access their salaries and all payments made over the Bacs payment scheme a working day earlier than usual. In the case where they… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset platform BlockFi will soon offer a credit card with Bitcoin rewards and 1.5% cypto-back in Bitcoin, according to a tweet by the firm. The credit card will be issued in partnership with Visa, Evolve Bank.   It’s here. Log in to your BlockFi… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Libra Association, the initiative launched by Facebook to create a global digital currency, has changed its name to Diem, according to a note from the group. Recently, there have been multiple reports that the Diem Association is gearing up to launch its digital currency…. Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Nordigen, a Latvia based Fintech, has launched an Open Banking API that incorporates a freemium model. According to Nordigen, developers in companies of all sizes may access PSD2 data from major banks from across Europe via a single API. Nordigen pairs the free service with… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), along with its partners the World Bank and the World Economic Forum, hosted a presentation this week outlining its findings in a study reviewing the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the Fintech industry. The survey was launched… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 7:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech Pomelo Pay has raised £2.1 million in a seed funding round led by Force Over Mass, according to a note from the company. Pomelo says the new funding will enable it to grow its hardware-free digital payment service while helping both smaller firms,… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 9:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs continues to update and iterate its secondary marketplace for private securities. As was reported this past summer, Seedrs enabled variable pricing for trading to take place on the market but there were still certain restrictions tied to the last valuation of the company. At… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 9:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech Limepay has raised $21 million in what is said to be a pre-IPO funding round. Investors included current backers as well as new high net worth and institutional investors. Ord Minnett acted as lead manager, supported by Prime Financial as corporate and financial… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 1:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

FT Partners, the leading Fintech focused investment bank in the US, has posted a presentation that covers the investment crowdfunding sector while incorporating a Q&A with SeedInvest founder and CEO Ryan Feit. SeedInvest is also a FINRA regulated broker-dealer and has been approved for an… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Mintos, a Fintech that recently closed a securities offering on Crowcube, is reporting that it has set a new record when it comes to an offering for a continental European funding round. The offering has raised €7.2 million in total backed by over 7000… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Engel & Völkers says that following its first project in Spain, the investment platform will expand its partnership with the logistics park in the Villaverde district of Madrid. In September, Engel & Völkers reports that in just 30 hours it raised €2… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 11:05 am By JD Alois  |  

INX Limited, a digital asset platform that received approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to issue a digital security, says it has signed a letter of intent for its first issuer the Diamond Standard Coin. The tokenized asset is based on diamonds. The… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

This past summer, Tandem Bank acquired Allium Lending Group, a green finance platform. The targeted lending platform may boost Tandem’s business in the growing interest of ESG finance. In a note distributed by Tandem, the challenger bank says that more than half the UK population… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Following a successful securities offering on Seedrs earlier this year where EstateGuru raised over €900,000, the Fintech has solidified its expansion into Germany – a country that has long been home to a good number of platform investors. EstateGuru was founded in Estonia in 2013… Read More