Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

September 19, 2022 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In August 2022, more than €80M in returns have reportedly been paid out to Bondora investors since they were founded. Bondora is focused on helping “to empower people to take charge and set themselves up for success with their financial futures.” Loan origination and investments… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ethis has won recognition as the Best Islamic Crowdfunding Platform – for the second time. The award was delivered at the Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA). Ethis Group is an Islamic investment and social finance platform with investment crowdfunding services approved by regulators in Indonesia,… Read More

September 18, 2022 @ 1:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken is pleased to announce that their platform now supports EthereumPoW (ETHW). As mentioned in an update posted on September 16 by Kraken, ETHW trading “is live and the ETHW token has been distributed to eligible clients.” A further announcement will be… Read More

September 17, 2022 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FTX Europe announced that it has received approval from the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), to operate “as a Cyprus investment firm (CIF) allowing the Company to fully own the local investment firm it previously acquired.” Patrick Gruhn, Head of FTX Europe, commented: “After… Read More

September 16, 2022 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Martin Sokk notes that being European, his co-founder Mihkel and him had a front row seat to “how difficult and expensive investing in global markets was.” Martin added that you “have the big banks and professional platforms — but then you’re faced with confusing interfaces… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Serhii Zhdanov, CEO at EXMO, a compliant cryptocurrency exchange, registered in the Republic of Lithuania as a “provider of activities of a virtual currency exchange operator and a deposit virtual currency operator” that promotes itself as making investing in crypto easy… Read More

September 13, 2022 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital securities platform enabling both primary issuance as well as secondary trading, has announced a new tokenized asset that provides investors with exposure to a fund created by KKR. KKR is a fabled buy-out firm and asset management company. KKR sponsors various funds… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 5:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Genesis has executed its first-ever block trade of CME’s newly listed large ETH options contract with Cumberland DRW, according to a statement by the company. According to Genesis, via an affiliate, a trade of CME’s large ETH options contract affirms Genesis’ support of CME’s latest… Read More

September 12, 2022 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenization, the process of making an asset digital typically by leveraging blockchain technology, is predicted to hit $16 trillion by 2030, according to a report by ADDX and Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, “Relevance of on-chain asset tokenization in ‘crypto winter’” is available here…. Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 5:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neighborhood Ventures is partnering with Small Change, a funding portal that specializes in real estate offerings issued under Reg CF. Neighborhood Ventures is an Arizona based investment platform that provides access to investment under Arizona’s state crowdfunding law. Under the state exemption, issuers may raise… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Last month, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) applied sanctions to Tornado Cash, a crypto mixing platform. The second sanctions hitting a mixer, the enforcement action is still the first of its kind as the code running Tornado.cash was open… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Group has received a license to operate a digital asset exchange in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The approval came from the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and was awarded to Huobi subsidiary Brtuomi Worldwide Limited (BWL). On April 16th, 2021, BWL was approved… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 11:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IDF Eurasia, a lending company specializing in consumer loans, has reportedly introduced a new cashback campaign. For a limited time, users are able to “earn a cashback of up to 2% for investments in IDF Eurasia Notes.” For IDF Eurasia’s entity MFO FintechFinance LLP, you… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform PeerBerry reported that it will be listing CashXpress loans from the Philippines again. CashXpress will reportedly “offer double guaranteed 180 days term loans with a 12% ROI.” PeerBerry pointed out that you may review “the term and the loan type of CashXpress loans,… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Dalmore Group is a regulated broker-dealer that is very active in the securities crowdfunding sector, helping firms raise money using Reg A+ (Regulation A), Reg CF, as well as Reg D. Dalmore not only enables funding via exempt securities offerings but it also provides secondary… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm Gemini notes that they’re pleased to announce support for Binance USD (BUSD). BUSD is now “available for deposits and custody on Gemini.” Trading for BUSD will follow, “opening first on [their] API/FIX and ActiveTrader applications for the USD trading… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

ShiftPixy, Inc. (NASDAQ: PIXY) has announced a plan to “duel list” its shares on digital securities marketplace Upstream, a platform powered by MERJ and Horizon Fintex. ShiftPixy has a current market cap of around $585 million. ShiftPixy has been going through a period of transition… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

LANDE, a Latvian Fintech providing investment crowdfunding for farms, has raised €550,000 in pre-Seed funding, according to a statement by the firm. LANDE states that it will use the money to expand its services into Romania while planning entry into other European markets. The round… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

21.co, a Switzerland-based crypto platform, has raised $25 million in a funding round led by Marshall Wace. The valuation of 21.co was set at around $2 billion apparently making 21.c0 Switzerland’s largest crypto unicorn. Marshall Wace, regulated by the UK FCA, is a hedge fund partly… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

One of Debitum platform business partners, invoice factoring company FLEXIDEA, which operates in Latvia and Poland, has revealed that this summer, private equity fund HELENOS, managed by INPULSE INVESTMENT MANAGER (Brussels-based investment manager, Belgium), “acquired a 14,67% share in the capital of FLEXIDEA.” The acquisition… Read More