Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

December 9, 2023 @ 3:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European investment platform TWINO is sharing the latest performance and product updates. TWINO notes in a blog post that they see that November was an active month for the investors as they reportedly “have several ongoing campaigns and attractive investment opportunities on the platform.” TWINO’s… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In November, Mintos reveals that it saw investments in Notes reach €135.2 million, the largest growth in two years. According to Peteris Mikelsons, Head of Partnerships at Mintos, this upward trend can primarily be attributed to “larger than usual repurchases, primarily made by Eleving Group,… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Moment is pleased to announce that Public.com is launching fixed income powered by the Moment platform. For decades, bond trading has been “less accessible to the public than stock trading.” As a firm focused on in retail investing — and one of the first platforms… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CapitalRise reveals that it recently passed the £300m lending milestone, against £830m of prime property assets. To sustainably maintain this growth in their loan book, they claim to “have robust monitoring processes in place.” Their own project managers reportedly work “with independent third-party professionals, such… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is launching a Crypto app, which will be offered to all eligible customers in the European Union (EU). According to a blog post by Robinhood, it is “the only custodial crypto platform where customers will get a percentage of their trading volume… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than half (62%) of financial advisors currently allocate between 6% and 25% of clients’ portfolios to alternative asset classes, with (85%) of them expecting “to increase allocations to one or more alternative asset classes further within the next year,” according to a recent independent… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic Note is now trading on INX, according to an email distributed by Republic. The digital security is designed to enable investors to participate in the gains generated from the issuers who have raising money on Republic and delivered a return for the portfolio. According… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

  While many P2P lenders have fallen to the wayside or moved on to accepting only institutional funding, Folk2Folk perseveres with its original mission. Today, Folk2Folk claims the title of the UK’s largest peer-to-peer lending platform in terms of cumulative lending, having facilitated £653 million… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Birchal, the leading securities crowdfunding platform in Australia (Crowd-sourced Funding in Aussie-speak), says it is on track to completing its most active quarter to date. According to the company, Q4 has seen 25 successful funding rounds and the platform is nearing A$ 200 million in… Read More

December 5, 2023 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest founder and former CEO Christian Faes, and Faes and Co., have announced a new private credit fund for real estate bridge loans. The goal is to raise up to $100 million. LendInvest is a publicly traded Fintech that enables developers/builders to raise money to… Read More

December 4, 2023 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital has appointed Ciaran McGivern as Relationship Director for Northern Ireland following growth of our developer client base. Assetz Capital claim they have “provided £152m of property lending to the region focusing on residential development projects, office to residential refurbishment schemes and commercial mortgages.” As… Read More

December 4, 2023 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Regulation Crowdfunding, or Reg CF, experienced a solid month during November. A total of 135 new issuers sought to raise money under the exemption, generating $55.2 million in investor commitments. Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) monthly update shares that November offerings increased from the previous month… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru reveals that they have now added Google Authenticator, which should help with providing additional security for clients’ accounts. As noted in a blog post by Estateguru, cybercrime is on the rise “in the digital age, and the days when a simple password was enough… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 5:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry investors have reportedly funded a record-high amount of over €80.4 million of loans in November and earned €862 844 in interest. PeerBerry’s portfolio has “amounted to €109.88 million at the end of the last months.” PeerBerry reveals that it currently “has over 76 625… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 2:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhod (NASDAQ: HOOD) Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev recently said that he does not think that the payment for order flow (PFOF) model of market-maker routing that the firm incorporates in the United States is under any type of threat. This would be despite suggestions… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robo.cash said it has closed out November with new milestones. Robo.cash noted that November 2023 brought them several new positive developments. They reached the mark of 35,000 investors and total investor earnings “crossed the €20M milestone.” According to insights shared by Robocash, the APAC region… Read More

December 2, 2023 @ 4:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yieldstreet, a private market investment platform, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cadre, an online, real-estate-focused investment platform that serves institutional and high-net-worth investors. With a collective investment value of more than $9.7 billion, investors have allocated $5.3 billion on the platforms and received $3.1 billion in returns to… Read More

December 1, 2023 @ 5:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

DealMaker, a broker-dealer specializing in online capital formation – mainly for exempt securities offerings, has shared some information on performance during the months of September and October. While venture capital markets have been somewhat subdued, there has been anecdotal information that issuers raising money online… Read More

December 1, 2023 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, a global identity verification platform, announced its partnership with Public, a U.S. investing platform for stocks, ETFs, crypto, Treasury bills and alternative assets that is allowing U.K. investors access to U.S. stocks. Public chose Trulioo Person Match identity verification “to achieve the highest onboarding… Read More

December 1, 2023 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bondora reports that the month of October 2023 saw a rebound for originations and investments. Bondora notes in a blog post that after decreasing slightly in September, investments and originations rebounded in October. Both these statistics “totaled just over €15M, with a growth rate of… Read More