June 9, 2019 @ 12:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdBureau has partnered with Amplify to create a new Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that targets the Fintech sectors of peer to peer lending (marketplace) and crowdfunding. The LEND ETF corresponds to the CrowdBureau Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending & Equity Crowdfunding Index (the Index). The Index is comprised… Read More

June 8, 2019 @ 5:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Invest Hong Kong Appoints New Head of Fintech King Leung has been appointed Head of Fintech at InvestHK which took effect in early May. Leung will lead a specialist Fintech team with the objective of attracting top innovativeFfintech companies, entrepreneurs, investors, accelerators and R&D institutions… Read More

June 8, 2019 @ 4:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Insurtech Lemonade is going public. This is according to multiple reports indicating the early stage insurance company is going public at an approximate $2 billion valuation. Lemonade last raised capital in April with a $300 million round led by Softbank. Lemonade may seek up to… Read More

June 8, 2019 @ 12:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) CEO David Salomon reportedly told an audience last week that his company is getting zero credit for its digital bank startup Marcus. “If we were out in Silicon Valley and made 20% of the progress that we’ve made, we would get a… Read More

June 8, 2019 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has approved three digital asset exchanges as “Recognized Market Operators” (RMOs) to establish and operate digital asset exchanges (DAX) in Malaysia. Malaysia is known for its support of Fintech innovation in general and recently updated online capital formation rules to… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingClub (NYSE:LC) held its annual meeting this week. On the list of matters requiring shareholder approval were several important items. First, two Directors were re-elected. The election of Susan Athey and John C. (Hans) Morris was approved. Both will serve until 2022 unless events change…. Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 1:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

The FinTech Alliance has announced a partnership with Delio to power funding for startups directly through its platform. The FinTech Alliance was announced by the UK government in April. Officially, the platform kicks off next week at the beginning of London Tech Week. The FinTech… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is out with a report on Fintech/distributed ledger technology. Entitled Decentralised Financial Technologies, the document reviews the impact of “decentralization” (IE blockchain and other forms of Fintech) on global financial stability and international regulatory environment. The report is being delivered… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

OpenLTV is a new platform that seeks to offer investors access to secured real estate debt in tokenized form. Investors may participate in the offering either with fiat or crypto via a partnership with Paxos. According to a release from OpenLTV, qualified investors can earn… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Announced in April by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, the FinTech Alliance will officially launch next week at an event in London. A gathering is scheduled to take place on June 10th at the start of London Tech Week. A private party… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 3:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintechs Raisin and Yolt have formed a new partnership. Yolt is a “smart thinking money app” claiming more than 900,000 registered users. Raisin is a savings marketplace that enables users to capture higher returns on their parked cash without geographical constraints. Raisin will now provide… Read More

June 7, 2019 @ 12:05 am By JD Alois  |  

The Algorand Foundation has announced its Dutch Auction will take place on June 19th. The Foundation said this will be the first of a series of auctions for the Algo the native token of the Algorand platform. The Algorand Foundation has a vision of a… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 11:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online lender Younited Credit has completed its first public securitization transaction: Youni 2019-1, listed on Euronext, Paris. Youni 2019-1 is the first public securitization carried out by a Fintech in continental Europe. Younited Credit claims to be the first Fintech in the world to earn,… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 1:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online lender LendingUSA is showing some of their employees the door. Crowdfund Insider recently received a tip from someone with knowledge of the firings. LendingUSA is a Fintech lender that provides loans to small businesses ranging from $1000 to $35,000. Founded in 2015, LendingUSA specializes… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Banking financial service software provider Synapse has closed on a Series B Funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Synapse raised $33 million in the funding round with participation from existing investors Trinity and Core Innovation Capital. As part of the investment, Angela Strange (General… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 11:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Last year, in the month of June, with great fanfare JP Morgan Chase announced the launch of a “fully digital banking experience Finn by Chase.” Today, Finn is dead. At the time of the launch, JPM Chase said the new-shiny iOS App would provide a… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase is pushing closer to its mission to be all thing for digital assets including security tokens. Yesterday, Coinbase Custody announced it was now accepting withdrawals and deposits from $BCAP. BCAP, or Blockchain Capital, is one of the first security tokens in existence. It is… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto forensics firm Chainalysis has partnered with Lendingblock, the institutional lending exchange for digital assets. Chainalysis will provide AML/KYC technology to Lendingblock. Lendingblock allows hedge funds, exchanges, asset managers, etc. to find liquidity and facilitate strategies, in the digital asset sector. Lendingblock is regulated by… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech startup Paysend has added six new countries to the list of jurisdictions where its network is available. Paysend is now available in more than 70 different countries. The news comes alongside a Series B crowdfunding round hosted on the Seedrs platform. Paysend is seeking… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 8:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech startup BudgetBakers has received regulatory approval from the Czech National Bank to join the bank’s API’s, according to a release. BudgetBakers has developed a Wallet global personal finance management application. The European PSD2 Directive instructs banks to make their client account data available to third… Read More