Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

March 22, 2022 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, a leading global investment crowdfunding platform, has published its Q4 2021 High Tech Jobs Index. According to OurCrowd, their survey indicates “aggressive recruitment plans as the world turns the corner on the COVID-19 health crisis. OurCrowd states that 72% of surveyed companies increased hiring… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 2:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Livestock trading and analytics platform Breedr has raised £12 million in a blend of debt and equity capital, according to a company statement. Breedr raised capital on Crowdcube last fall receiving over £2 million from 560 individual investors at a pre-money valuation of £16 million…. Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 9:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

 Validus has entered into an agreement with Citi Singapore to purchase its business loan portfolio, according to a statement by Validus. Headquartered in Singapore, Validus provides access to capital for businesses funded by institutions and individual investors. Individual investors must be accredited/HNW individuals. Loans are… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 7:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Binance has sent a letter to the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) telling the regulator it is committed to ceasing opening new accounts in Ontario. Last year, Binance Canada announced it would cease providing crypto services in Ontario. The OSC allows crypto exchanges to provide trading in… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Four-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion, Naomi Osaka has been enlisted as global ambassador of FTX, the holding company of FTX.com and FTX.us. According to a company release, Osaka will become a shareholder in the firm while receiving compensation in crypto. Osaka will sport the… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Given its established history, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) was due for a major update. The LSE was established back in 1698 as simply a list of prices posted to the wall of a back-alley coffee house. Then about 100 years later, it began hosting… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lithuania’s borderless financing platform Debitum confirms that the ongoing war in Ukraine is affecting everyone. Debitum is “strongly against” the Russian aggression and they are supporting their partners and their employees based in Ukraine. For investors, “who purchased claim rights related to borrowers from Ukraine,… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 1:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After a very “ambitious” January 2922, the collection and recovery numbers “settled more” in February on Bondora. The Bondora team revealed that the number of payments and the cash collected “declined by 0.6% and 16%, respectively.” This is the first time in 6 months that… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tony Kear from UK’s Assetz Capital notes that he joined in November 2020 and was “just getting his feet under the desk when COVID hit.” Tony Kear shares that he started his Corporate Banking career in 1990 based in NatWest Bridgend with “an emphasis on… Read More

March 20, 2022 @ 11:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In recent years, the peer-to-peer market has become “a competitive alternative to traditional assets due to attractive returns on investments, their predictability (yield and term are known in advance), ease of management and low volatility.” according to an update from Robo.cash. However, Robocash clarifies that… Read More

March 20, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Okcoin notes that they are the first US licensed exchange to offer Kadena’s token, KDA, “against USD.” You can now deposit KDA on Okcoin. This offer is for all customers including those in the United States, “except for residents of the EU,… Read More

March 20, 2022 @ 8:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry notes that their business partners have assessed the changes in interest rates in international markets and have “made appropriate changes in the interest rates on loans offered to invest in on the PeerBerry platform – the interest rates are slightly increasing.” Interest rates on… Read More

March 20, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week, StartEngine – one of the largest securities crowdfunding platforms in the US, returned to its own platform to raise more growth capital. According to the offering page, StartEngine is seeking up to $46 million at a valuation of $1.32 billion. The Reg… Read More

March 20, 2022 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Gemini is pleased to announce support for ApeCoin (APE). ApeCoin or APE tokens are trading at $11.52 with a market cap of over $1.5 billion at the time of writing (according to CoinGecko data). ApeCoin (APE) is currently available for trading on… Read More

March 19, 2022 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fellow Finance‘s general meeting has on 22 December 2021 approved the merger of Fellow Finance into Evli Bank Plc “in accordance with the merger plan signed on 30 September 2021.” The planned effective date of the merger “is on or about 2 April 2022.” The… Read More

March 18, 2022 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adam Zadikoff, Senior Product Manager at Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), notes that making Web 3.0 more user-friendly “means more ways to interact and connect with dapps across a wide range of blockchains and networks.” Coinbase is now introducing their initial phase of support for Solana. SOL tokens… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 5:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Singapore Exchange-backed private market platform ADDX recently announced Oi-Yee Choo will be appointed its CEO, subject to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) approval. ADDX was founded in 2017 and began full commercial operations in 2020 after becoming one of the first digital securities exchanges… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

EQONEX Limited (NASDAQ: EQOS) has selected Jonathan Farnell as its new CEO and Member of the Board of Directors. Farnell was previously the Head of Binance UK and CEO of Bifinity. The current interim CEO Andrew Eldon will revert back to his primary roles of… Read More

March 17, 2022 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

OTC Markets Group (OTCQX: OTCM), a marketplace for domestic and international securities, states that it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of Blue Sky Data Corp, a provider of equity and debt compliance data regarding state “Blue Sky” securities rules and regulations. Many… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 11:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer-to-peer lending platform Robo.cash has announced the launch in Sri Lanka with new commercial loans. Operating under  Robocash Group in Sri Lanka, the online lending platform now allows users to invest in loans for a period of 3 years at 12.5% with monthly interest payments,… Read More