Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

October 4, 2021 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Birchal, the top investment crowdfunding platform (called crowd-sourced funding or CSF) in Australia, is reporting that September 2021 is the biggest quarter ever for the industry. According to Birchal, crowdfunding in Australia jumped by 110% versus same quarter year prior. Platforms raised $19.4 million from… Read More

October 3, 2021 @ 9:27 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A £1.7m development loan to New Generation Developments is the latest move by Assetz Capital. The specialty lender has facilitated nearly £1.5bn of retail and institutional funds to UK businesses to date. New Generation Developments Ltd, a Cardiff-based construction company, secured the loan to build… Read More

October 2, 2021 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Decentralized launchpad Polkastarter has announced the first initiative to be “fully” incubated by its new investment division, Polkastarter Labs. WonderHero, a play-to-earn mobile (role-playing game) RPG game, will reportedly receive pre-IDO and post IDO support and mentorship “while gaining access to Polkastarter’s vast network for… Read More

October 2, 2021 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vtivek Ravi, Product Manager in the Risk and Compliance Department at EstateGuru, a property-backed loan marketplace catering to retail investors, joined the company at their Tallinn office around seven months ago. Vivek notes that his goal is to learn more about the overall risk and… Read More

October 1, 2021 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

LendingBlock, a Gibraltar licensed DLT provider, will officially commence crypto lending on Monday (October 4, 2021) according to posts on Telegram. Gibraltar has positioned itself as a jurisdiction that is digital asset friendly in a regulatory compliant ecosystem. LendingBlock states: “Lendingblock opens for business Monday,… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kraken (Payward Ventures, Inc), a digital asset trading platform, has been hit by a $1.25 million penalty imposed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to a statement by the CFTC, Kraken offered illegal off-exchange trading in digital asetss and failed to register as… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine, a leading US based investment crowdfunding platform, held a webinar today to discuss the performance of its business. Hosted by co-founder and CEO Howard Marks, he shared some updated financial metrics on platform performance. StartEngine is in the midst of a Reg A+ securities… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 12:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital securities ecosystem has fired up its alternative trading system (ATS) to enable the trading of security tokens. Securitize Markets is designed to provide investors access to invest in and trade a broad range of alternative assets, including private company equity, real estate,… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Jeremy Allaire, CEO and founder of Circle – a top stablecoin issuer and owner of investment crowdfunding platform SeedInvest, has sent a tweet out defending securities crowdfunding and more specifically SeedInvest. In response to a statement by noted VC Paul Graham, Allaire said returns generated… Read More

September 28, 2021 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

INCOME, self-described as “the safest marketplace for investing in loans” is crowdfunding on SeedBlink, a Romanian platform. INCOME is an Estonian investment platform that allows smaller investors to invest in loans. The company was founded in 2020 by Kimmo Rytkönen, Mikk Läänemets, and Meliina Räty,… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spencer Noon, an investor in Variant, a first-check cryptocurrency venture capital fund, has released their latest Network report, which covers OpenSea, Foundation, SuperRare, RMRK, and Fractional. Spencer Noon reports that analysts have covered the non-fungible tokens or NFTs space for: OpenSea, Foundation, SuperRare, RMRK, and… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Lithuania-based Debitum, a borderless financing platform, says it’s proud to release asset-backed securities and enter the “regulated financial market.” As mentioned in a blog post by Debitum, dated September 23, 2021,  the company will now be able to continue the journey to… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lending platform Bondora reveals that the number of loans recovered and the amount of cash recovered from missed or skipped payments “jumped higher in August.” This is the opposite of the trend observed in the month of July 2021, which saw these two… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a trailblazer in the digital asset sector that operates a digital securities trading platform, has announced the addition of multiple cryptocurrencies to its Crypto App. According to tZERO, available on October 4, 2021, for trading is Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Stellar Lumen (XLM), Cardano (ADA),… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, a property-backed loan marketplace catering to retail investors, has distributed an update on progress in Finland. In 2020, Estate Guru, which is based in Tallinn, entered Finland as a market expansion. At that time, EstateGuru said it had been actively talking to Finnish entrepreneurs since… Read More

September 27, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, a leading online lender that recently raised £280 million in debt and equity and was approved for flex loans, notes in a blog post that there’s “no denying” that last year was quite tough. However, the MarketFinance team claims that “things are looking up”… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The peer-to-peer (P2P) market volumes for the first 8 months of this year are comparable to the GDP of the Maldives and Fiji, according to an update from Croatian P2P lender Robo.cash. The number of P2P investors is reportedly greater than the population of 52… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based P2P lending platform Blend Network reports that annual house price growth in the country surged to 11.0% in July 2021 from around 10.5% in June 2021. This, according to the updated figures from the Nationwide House Price Index. In MoM terms, house prices increased… Read More

September 24, 2021 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Liti Capital SA, a Switzerland based litigation funding platform, has launched a new service called “Scambusters.” According to a release, the new feature will enable users to vote for which crypto fraud case the platform should pursue in the future. Any LITI or wLITI token… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 12:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While the baseline premise behind Liti Capital is interesting enough on its own, the founding team’s vision for the company and the cryptocurrency industry as a whole suggests it is well-positioned to be around for the long haul. Executive chairman and CIO David Kay previously… Read More