October 13, 2016 @ 4:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise has officially added three new eREITs to their plaforms offerings: West Coast eREIT, Heartland eREIT and East Coast eREIT.  These three new funds will compliment the current two offerings the Growth eREIT and Income eREIT. The three new geographically targeted real estate funds are… Read More

October 13, 2016 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingRobot, the robo-advisor that connects retail investors to P2P loans, has launched a new product: LendingRobot for Advisors. This new service will help connect registered investment advisors to invest in Lending Club loans. The new application is in partnership with Millenium Trust the firm that… Read More

October 13, 2016 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs’  long-anticipated online lending platform labeled Marcus has launched for users who received a special code by mail.  The Fintech platform is poised to challenge established marketplace lending platforms such as Prosper and Lending Club by offering consumers a chance to refinance onerous credit… Read More

October 13, 2016 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Works, a consumer peer to peer lending platform, has received full authorisation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).  Lending Works said it had originally applied for FCA approval in October of 2015 and had undergone a “stringent review process”. Lending Works has been operating… Read More

October 13, 2016 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK government is reporting the number of private sector businesses is at an all-time high.  The report stated the number of businesses hit 5.5 million – a new record. At the beginning of 2016, there were one million more small businesses, 4000 more medium… Read More

October 12, 2016 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ruth Hedges is from the early days of crowdfunding in the United States. Part of an original group of committed individuals who advocated on behalf of updating antiquated securities regulations, Hedges is a founding member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA); the group originally… Read More

October 12, 2016 @ 4:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The National Crowdfunding Association of Canada (NCFA) will be hosting its 2nd annual Fintech and crowdfunding conference next week and this year the show is in Vancouver and has been labeled VanFUNDING 2016. The NCFA has included multiple enterprise conference partners this year including PayPal… Read More

October 12, 2016 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Tech Coast Angels has enlisted the assistance of Josh Lerner from the Harvard Business School and Antoinette Schoar from MIT to research angel investing and the overall impact on the companies they fund.  The report (embedded below) indicates that angel networks have a demonstrably positive… Read More

October 12, 2016 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Dara Albright, a long-time proponent of alternative finance and founder of Albright Media, has announced the launching of a new video channel covering the evolving financial technology sector.FinTechREVOLUTION.tv is described as featuring the leadership and technologies that are shaping the future of personal finance. The… Read More

October 11, 2016 @ 10:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The answer is keep it simple, and  keep it transparent. The above statement came from Lord Adair Turner in a speech delivered at LendIt Europe this week. He was reflecting upon how peer to peer lending can avoid situations of systemic risk as exemplified… Read More

October 11, 2016 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Consumer and Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been labeled “unconstitutional” by a federal appeals court.  The ruling addressed specifically the agency’s structure and the amount of control exercised by its director – currently Richard Cordray.  The ruling allows for the CFPB to continue to… Read More

October 11, 2016 @ 12:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lord Adair, the former FSA Chair and longtime banker, sideswiped the UK online lending industry last year during an interview on BBC.  Adair criticized the peer to peer lending industry in a blistering statement regarding disruptive online lenders; “The losses which will emerge from peer-to-peer… Read More

October 11, 2016 @ 8:23 am By JD Alois  |  

OTC Markets has enlised VStock Transfer as the first participant in its new initiative to create a central repository for share data on companies traded on their various marketplaces.  The initiative is designed to boost overall transparency for securities traded on OTC Markets.  Cromwell Coulson,… Read More

October 11, 2016 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

LendIt, a global conference and events organizer established by Jason Jones, Peter Renton and Bo Brustkern, has announced a strategic partnership with AMTD Group Limited (AMTD). LendIt released the news during its annual LendIt Europe conference taking place in London today. AMTD and LendIt had previously partnered… Read More

October 10, 2016 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

A new report from NextGen Crowdfunding, authored by NextGen Chief Strategy Officer Richard Swart, reviews all Reg A+ filed since June 2015 up until June of 2016.  NextGen analyzed 131 companies that have taken advantage of updated rules established by the JOBS Act of 2012…. Read More

October 10, 2016 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Innovate Finance, along with partners EY & Hogan Lovells, has published a report on Blockchain adoption.  Entitled Blockchain, DLT and the Capital Markets Journey: Navigating the Legal and Regulatory Landscape, the publication addresses distributed ledger technology (DLT) and the current regulatory environment.  The report also provides… Read More

October 10, 2016 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Judopay, an “AppCommerce” payments platform, has announced new appointments to its leadership team,  The new hires are designed to help drive Judopay’s growth in the in-app mobile payments space across EMEA, expansion in the US and also into new mobile and in-app sectors. Judopay has… Read More

October 9, 2016 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) has released a commissioned study on the economics of the peer to peer lending market in the UK.  The independent assessment, provided by the economic consulting firm of Oxera, analysed the risks, costs and benefits of peer-to-peer… Read More

October 9, 2016 @ 8:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

KPMG Australia has released some “key takeaways” from their Fintech Accelerator mLab, a program that was launched in August this year. The approach was to match authorised deposit taking institutions with early stage Fintech firms. The accelerator program included seven Australian mutual banks and credit… Read More

October 9, 2016 @ 8:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The insurance industry is a sector of finance that is begging for disruption. In the Fintech arena, Insurtech is poised to be huge. The US Treasury Department published a study of insurance in September that pegged total assets for insurance at over $8 trillion. In… Read More