April 20, 2016 @ 9:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Venture Capital in Europe has reached a new high following a dramatic quarter over quarter growth. Dow Jones Venture Source is reporting solid numbers for Q1 2016 as venture capital fundraising “rockets”. According to their data; 25 European venture capital funds reached a new high… Read More

April 20, 2016 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Trillion (formerly Trillion Fund), has announced a hosted investment crowdfunding service called “Your Brand Crowdfunding”  to empower businesses to engage customers directly in raising debt or equity capital. Trillion pivoted away from its original intent of being an investment crowdfunding platform for renewable energy projects…. Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 11:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The largest bank in South East Asia, DBS, has signed an agreement with two peer to peer lending platforms to refer small business loans the bank turns away.  MoolahSense and Funding Societies will now become a service provider for the far larger bank. Simultaneously, both… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 11:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Crowd-Sourced Funding bill, Australia’s push for a legislative update for investment crowdfunding regulations, has silently died in the Aussie Senate.  The legislation is listed as “lapsed at prorogation” on the Senate website.  The proposal had endured sector criticism with one industry participant calling the… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 4:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK Peer to Peer Funding Association has released its most recent quarterly numbers for the P2P lending industry. According to their tally, member platforms generated £715 million in Q1 of 2016 with quarter on quarter growth continuing its upward march. In the same quarter… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Commission has presented a set of measures intended to support and link national initiatives for the “digitisation of industry”.  The initiative is part of the policy push to improve competition and support industry including, the Capital Markets Union, Energy Union, Single Market Strategy,… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Leveraging “Testing the Waters” (TTW) under Regulation A+ equity crowdfunding, Legion M has now topped $1 million in indications of interest from potential investors. The TTW campaign was launched on March 18th at the first Silicon Valley Comic Com.  Legion M describes itself as the… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

    The marketplace lending industry has gone from 0 to 100 in just a few short years. While it seems like only yesterday when Zopa launched in the UK capturing the title of the first P2P lender, platforms now number in the thousands and… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lender Lendix has acquired short term loan specialist Finsquare. Lendix, the largest marketplace lending platform in France, said that Finsquare’s product addressed a “real demand for lenders and borrowers alike.”  The acquisition was viewed as highly complementary to the Lendix platform – an online lender… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

In an independent report conducted by Equity Development, peer to peer lender ArchOver has received a nice affirmation of their secured lending approach. The publication entitled, “How to Make a Relatively Safe 5% PA Return” (registration required), labeled their business model as perhaps the best practice… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 7:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a letter addressed to the General Accounting Office (GAO), signed by Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley, Sherrod Brown, and Jeanne Shaheen, a request was made to research and make recommendations regarding Fintech and Peer to Peer / Marketplace Lending. The letter, dated April 18, 2016,… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

If you think equity / debt crowdfunding is just for early stage companies. Think again. The UK has always been a trailblazer in the sector of internet finance. The rest of the world gets to watch and cross our fingers that our own ecosystem evolves… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced the release of an online tool to help companies calculate certain Edgar registration fees. The new online application covers the “most common filings companies” used to register initial public offerings, debt offerings, asset-backed securities, closed-end mutual funds, limited partnerships,… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

According to multiple reports, HSBC is committing £10 billion in lending to UK SMEs. This announcement comes on the heels of a notice that HSBC has introduced its virtual platform that cuts business loan application and approval times – in half. Richard Davies, COO of… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

XY Findables (formerly known just as XY Find It) ran a successful rewards-based crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter back in 2014. On a goal of $45,000 over 4000 supporters purchased the Bluetooth tracker tag. Now the company wants to scale and they are heading online once… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The Global Crowdfunding Convention (GCC), created by Ruth Hedges, has formed a partnership with  the Launchpad Agency. According to information provided by the agency, Launchpad is now a minority owner in GCC. “We have been a big part of the crowdfunding ecosystem for many years… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform iFunding has closed a $730,000 raise on an 8 unit for sale condo building in Washington, DC neighborhood Glover Park.  The development was sponsored by Columbia Property Capital, a developer in DC that speciallizes in condo conversion. Guy Prudhomme, President &… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Regulation A+, an updated exemption created by Title IV of the JOBS Act of 2012, took a largely moribund exemption and turned it into something useful. Old Reg A was crippled by state blue sky review. The SEC, given the necessary latitude by Congress to… Read More

April 17, 2016 @ 7:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

SocietyOne, has now originated over $100 million in loans according to a release by the company this week.  SocietyOne is the largest Aussie marketplace / P2P lending platform. Australia’s “first” marketplace lending platform has also closed a $25 million funding round, according to a report… Read More

April 17, 2016 @ 6:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

  LenditUSA 2016 was bigger than ever. If you look back just three years the venue and the organizers have scaled what was once a relatively small gathering of 375 industry participants in 2013 to one that is truly a global event with over 3,500… Read More