October 8, 2017 @ 5:11 am By JD Alois  |  

The Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) is launching their first online Fintech course which will open to the public soon. If you are interested, you may enroll here. The course is described as “Around Fintech in Eight Hours.” The coursework starts with an overview of Fintech and introduces a… Read More

October 7, 2017 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The Netherlands Crowdfunding Association has recently announced the nominees for the annual Crowdfunding Awards. The Assocation states that Dutch investors have contributed more than €400 million in more than 4,000 different companies. Many of these same investors became directly involved with entrepreneurs in their area through… Read More

October 7, 2017 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Taiwan appears to be taking a different approach than its neighbor China when it comes to distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrency. In a report from the Newslens, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chairman Wellington Koo told a joint meeting of Parliament and the cabinet that… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 6:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Grid ICO pre-sale has closed having sold 44,232,390.85 GRID tokens which at current rates means $27.7 million was raised. Grid has now raised about half of its 90 million token goal. During the token pre-sale, Grid reports it now holds the following assets: 85,407.0 ether 584.8… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 2:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing for next Wednesday, October 11 with an entire battalion of bills to consider. The more than twenty bills include several interesting acts of legislation.  Included on the list is a fix to the onerous definition of… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Racefields has announced that its debt trading platform RCX has garnered a listings value of £5.7 million in just two weeks following platform launch. The platform shares that each bridge loan is value from between £250,00 to £1.7 million. These loans are a mix of… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Moody’s Investor Service has upgraded 4Finance‘s credit ratings to B2 from B3. The upgrade comes as 4finance says it has passed € 5 billion in loan originations. The 4finance S.A. senior unsecured issuer rating was also upgraded to B2 from B3. The outlook on all ratings… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Andrew Hauser, the Executive Director of Banking, Payments and Financial Resilience from the Bank of England, delivered a speech today explaining why “this time is different.” His statement reflected on detractors who criticize Fintech as more of the same. Sure, ATMs came along and they were… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 7:58 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of England has published an update on their FinTech Accelerator program announcing the latest cohort of proofs of concepts along with a status report. The news shared as part of a speech by Andrew Hauser, Executive Director for Banking, Payments and Financial Resilience delivered… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine has announced it has started to accept applications to list an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on its crowdfunding platform. The full stack crowdfunding platform publicly announced in August its intent to incorporate tokenized security offerings alongside more traditional types of securities. StartEngine enables companies… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Late last month, Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund Managing Director, delivered a speech in the UK envisioning a future without banks. Now Lagarde did not say banks will no longer exist but she stepped up to the precipice of the death of banking stating there… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 6:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has a mission of working towards a single regulatory and supervisory framework for the European Union member states. The goal is to make things simpler for consumers and businesses to operate across the EU. As the digitization of banking and… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 2:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Keith Noreika, delivered a speech to midsize bank risk officers today that struck a positive note. The head of the OCC said there was much room for optimism as the regulatory pendulum has shifted away from the monolithic belief that… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Mambu has been enlisted to power ABN AMRO’s newly launched online lending platform New10. Mambu will be the SaaS engine for a range of small and medium enterprise (SME) lending products in the Netherlands. New10 will provide SMEs a credit decisions within 15 minutes. Mambu… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Earnest, an online lender in the student loan space, has been acquired for $155 million by Navient (NAVI) – the largest student loan servicer in the US. Since 2015, Earnest has refinanced approximately $2 billion in loans saving an estimated $500 million for thousands of… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain or Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is pretty much accepted as the future of banking. A bigger question is whether or not banks will continue to exist, at least in present form.  Banks that embrace change and innovation stand a better chance to evolve and… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 11:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton spent much of today visiting with the House Financial Services Committee. This was his first hearing before the Committee since he took the helm of the regulatory agency. Much of Clayton’s prepared remarks echoed his visit to the… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 9:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed its final judgement against Homero Joshua Garza and his two Bitcoin mining companies GAW Miners and ZenMiner. Garza is liable for $9.182 million for restitution and pre-judgement interest of $742,774. This ends the litigation against Garza with his… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 7:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is out with “Master Directions” regarding non-banking financial companies or peer to peer lenders. RBI indicated last month P2P lenders would not be considered banks. The governmental directive is officially known as the “Non-Banking Financial Company – Peer to… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 7:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

PeerStreet is getting bigger. The marketplace lender for real estate backed loans, has now topped $500 million in loans and the company is well on its way to $1 billion in online lending. Even more importantly, PeerStreet says that no money has ever been lost… Read More