June 6, 2017 @ 12:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowd Invest Summit has confirmed that Marcus Lemonis, star of the highly popular CNBC reality series “The Profit” will participate in a Fireside Keynote Chat at the forthcoming crowdfunding conference in Los Angeles this fall. Lemonis is a self made billionaire and is currently the… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Bank has hired Tommaso Zanobini as Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Technology (Fintech), a joint venture between Deutsche Bank’s FIG and TMT banking team. Zanobini was previously at Jefferies where he was most recently the Global Head of Financial Technology and Services… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 4:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bancor Protocol allows anyone the ability to create a digital currency on the Blockchain protocol. No technical skills necessary. Think User Generated Currency (as they describe it). Bancor makes it easy to create and manage a “crowdsale” too. Galia Benartzi from Bancor recently pitched the company… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Different form of peer to peer payments, like Venmo or Square Cash, have quickly become a popular method to send money to friends. This shift from physical to digital has further relegated cash to novelty status as the sheer convenience of tapping a few buttons and… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

      LATTICE80 and Nordic Finance Innovation (NFI) have announced a new partnership to “bridge Asia and the Nordic’s Fintech ecosystems.” LATTICE80 is the creation of Marvelstone Group, a private investment firm.  The two entities signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to seal the… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Plexal, soon to be Europe’s largest innovation hub, is scheduled to open on June 12th.  Plexal will be home to an astounding 800 startups and corporate organizations as it becomes another building block in UK’s innovation based economy. Plexal will be based at Here East… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Sancus Finance, a specialist financial services provider, has launched a new funding platform for businesses looking to participate in financing on their site. The new platform is part of a series of developments designed to improve the overall service offered to both funders and businesses. Sancus… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor, one of the leading equity crowdfunding platform in the Nordics, has announced two additions to its team. Erik Rehn has been appointed as sales director at Invesdor. Rehn will be responsible for planning and overseeing Invesdor’s global business-to-business sales. Invesdor said his most important… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdsurfer, a comprehensive source of data on the global alternative finance market, has announced that Zopa has become the latest peer-to-peer lender to submit its data to the Crowdsurfer analysis. Zopa, the world’s first P2P lender and one of the largest in the space, has… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 7:33 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, one of the largest equity crowdfunding platforms in the world, has formed an interesting partnership with The National Bank of Australia (NAB). The crowdfunding platform will now provide NAB clients with direct access to early stage investments listed on the OurCrowd site.  This is… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Kuber Inc, a Southern California based Fintech company, has launched it’s personal finance product targeting the more than 22 million university students in United States. Fluid App is now live on Apple iTunes store and free to download. This is first of its kind finance… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 2:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, the UK’s largest investment crowdfunding platform by total raised (£312 million), filed its annual report for the fiscal year ending September 2016 at the end of last week. According to the document, Crowdcube experienced a 48% growth in top line revenue versus year prior… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 1:01 am By JD Alois  |  

  FinTech Australia has announced the election of its new Board of Directors. The new Board is said to align with constitutional changes regarding gender diversity and representation from a broad number of states. On June 1, 2017, the Fintech industry association’s members voted in… Read More

June 4, 2017 @ 1:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

There were several interesting presentations at the most recent SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies (ACSEC) meeting last month.  One of the reports came from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) – the group that represents and lobbies on behalf of state… Read More

June 4, 2017 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Adomani, a company that designs and integrates electric motors to convert existing internal combustion fleet vehicles into zero emission trucks, has closed its Reg A+ crowdfunding offer at $14,458,375.  Adomani was seeking a minimum raise of $10.6 million and a max raise of up to… Read More

June 4, 2017 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) has announced the addition of Adrienne Harris, Ben Mangan, and Judith Samuelson to its board of directors.  CFSI was launched in 2004 to support innovation in the financial sector and to improve the plight of the millions of… Read More

June 3, 2017 @ 1:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) is looking to streamline the process of financial innovation by creating a special license for Fintech firms called the “Innovation Testing License” or ITL.  The DFSE said the ITL signals the “next phase” in their regulatory roadmap to increase… Read More

June 3, 2017 @ 12:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this year, XY Findables decided to end their Reg A+ crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine and go it alone with the offering being hosted on their own website. On StartEngine, XY was seeking $10 million in capital to fuel the company’s growth plans in the… Read More

June 3, 2017 @ 9:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Not only was Megan Kelly grilling Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) this week but other hot topics surround Fintech were on the schedule. One of these topics was the “Explosive Impact of Blockchain Technology” which included the participation of Waves… Read More

June 2, 2017 @ 11:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The world of advertising and promotion is changing. Back in the day your purchased the space in print or a commercial on broadcast and that was it. The advent of digital media threw all of the old rules out and a new era of advertising… Read More