September 27, 2018 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, Europe’s first security token issuance platform, has partnered with Liechtenstein-based Blocktrade to provide additional liquidity in security tokens. Neufund has previously announced partnerships with the Malta Stock Exchange, Binance and BitBay for secondary transactions.  The move is designed to boost liquidity in the nascent security… Read More

September 27, 2018 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Ronald Kleverlaan is a well known thought leader in the European Fintech sector. He is Director of the European Centre for Alternative Finance (ECAF) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands -a joint initiative of the University Utrecht School of Economics, CrowdfundingHub, and the Sustainable Finance Lab. ECAF… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 10:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House of Representatives has passed by a voice vote the “Financial Technology Protection Act.” Sponsored by Representative Ted Budd, the bill (HR 5036) would establish a Fintech task force that ostensibly would improve coordination between public and private sectors which may benefit from innovations in… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, part of the Financial Services Committee, has announced a hearing  entitled “Examining Opportunities for Financial Markets in the Digital Era.” Of course finance + digital equals Fintech. The hearing is in response to a report issued… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

data.world, an Austin-based Public Benefit Corporation and Certified B Corporation that powers modern data teamwork, has raised $12 million third round of investment backed by Workday Ventures, The Associated Press, and crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. The investment brings data.world’s total funding to $45.3 million since its… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Ireland is getting more serious about Fintech innovation. Announced late last week, the Irish government has partnered with ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, commencing a new research program: Fintech Fusion. The program will be headquartered at Trinity College Dublin and will initially run for four… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mind Fund, a Hong Kong based VC company, has partnered up with Hedera Hashgraph to launch the first accelerator dedicated to Hedera’s iteration of blockchain. Helix Accelerator, based in Hong Kong, will seek to build Dapps exclusively built on Hedera’s platform. Mind Fund also participated… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 8:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase has announced a new path for altcoin creators to apply to trade on the crypto exchange. Shared in a blog post yesterday, Coinbase stated: “Today we’re announcing a new process that will allow us to rapidly list most digital assets that are compliant with… Read More

September 26, 2018 @ 7:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has shared a new milestone: 100 issuers have now raised £1 million or more on their platform. While it is nice to note accomplishments like this, the fact that crowdfunding platforms are listing larger offerings is a natural part of the… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 10:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) is out with an update on their forthcoming event next month. CIS has partnered with Consensys and Token Foundry to educate cryptocurrency and blockchain investors as well as developers. At the event, CIS will introduce a “Builders’ Track,” designed to specialize… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mt. Gox, the infamous cryptocurrency exchange (really a Bitcoin exchange) that went bankrupt in 2014 due to mismanagement and theft, is getting closer to settling at least some of the claims that stand against it. Today, the bankruptcy trustee published a document indicating BTC 24,658.00762 and BCH … Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 1:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK challenger bank Tandem has added a new feature to its mainly digital banking platform. Tandem has introduced “intelligent auto-savings rules” to help users set aside their spare change to improve their savings habit.  According to Tandem, savings are swept from their existing current accounts,… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 12:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spotcap has announced that Sophie Peacock has earned the top prize in the Fintech Fellowship award for 2018. The Fellowship awards is a competition where one UK-based masters or MBA student receives an £8,000 scholarship. By supporting aspiring talent, Spotcap seeks to helpfill the Fintech… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) founder and CEO Patrick Byrne has purchased 43% of Medici Land Governance – an existing blockchain portfolio company of Overstock.  Details on the transaction were not provided. Medici Land Governance was founded in 2018 to help individuals around the world connect by using blockchain and… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

SEC regulated crowdfunding platform Republic, has listed two “high promise” cryptocurrency startups to its investment offerings. Nori and Quarters are raising capital on Republic Crypto – a token pre-sale platform for everyone to participate in “Legal Token Distributions” aimed to democratize blockchain investing. Quarters is a… Read More

September 25, 2018 @ 7:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Downing Crowd, a debt based crowdfunding platform that focuses on the renewable energy sector, has listed a series of solar investments by Populo Energy for projects in East Anglia and Norwich. The offering is for a £6.25 million bond for Populo Energy that will allow… Read More

September 24, 2018 @ 10:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has published its report on security breaches at financial services firms. According to the regulator, financial services firms have failed in their duty to protect their users and to notify them when they fall short of their fiduciary… Read More

September 24, 2018 @ 10:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle is a Fintech darling in the UK. The peer to peer lending platform is archetypal of this sector of Fintech that originated in Great Britain. Today, Funding Circle is the largest online lender in the UK having passed Zopa (mainly a consumer lender), in… Read More

September 24, 2018 @ 3:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the UK, issuers using crowdfunding platforms may raise as much as they want. The caveat has always been the requirement of a prospectus for issuers raising more than €5 million – a substantial hurdle. Earlier this year, the UK increased the crowdfunding cap in line… Read More

September 24, 2018 @ 1:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online lender ThinCats has announced a new £300 million program with global asset manager Insight Investment to fund UK SMEs. The announcement was shared on a ThinCats blogpost that indicated they now have the potential to loan up to £600 million. ThinCats is a UK based peer to… Read More