Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

April 5, 2021 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lending platform Bondora recently looked into whether there are any arguments in favor of “still investing” in loans offered via peer to peer platforms this year. As stated in a blog post on the Bondora website, we should still consider investing in P2P… Read More

April 3, 2021 @ 8:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Blend Network, an online P2P lender, notes that after a “short-lived” slowdown, the United Kingdom annual house price growth managed to recover with “renewed vigor” in February 2021. Blend Network writes in a blog post that January 2021 saw price growth… Read More

April 3, 2021 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Latvian P2P lender Grupeer reveals that they’ve received some “positive” news from their legal team (on March 31, 2021). According to Grupeer, this is a time to be “cautiously optimistic.” The Grupeer team writes in a blog post that they had begun legal enforcement proceedings… Read More

April 2, 2021 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Coinbase has confirmed the effectiveness of its registration statement and also the anticipated listing date of its Class A Common Stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Coinbase Global, Inc., revealed on April 1, 2021, that its registration statement on Form S-1,… Read More

April 1, 2021 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lithuania-based Debitum, which offers borderless small business financing, recently revealed that it’s pleased to confirm that its users “trust” the platform. Debitum also announced on March 29, 2021, that they’ve crossed the 4 million euros mark in their portfolio. The platform’s management acknowledged that “without… Read More

April 1, 2021 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Coinbase has hired Brett Redfearn as its Vice President of Capital Markets. Surojit Chatterjee, Chief Product Officer at Coinbase, noted in a blog post that during the last year, they’ve increased the performance of their exchange, rolled out support for new crypto-assets,… Read More

April 1, 2021 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

According to a release by Valdy (TSXV:VALDY), the company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding securities of INX Limited. Upon completion, INX will effectively become a publicly listed company. Valdy is a shell company based in Vancouver, Canada.  Valdy was incorporated… Read More

April 1, 2021 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Funderbeam is a global funding and trading platform for private companies that reports over €30 million in funding raised and more than 60,000 trades on their secondary marketplace.  The Fintech notes that it holds multiple financial licenses including authorised and regulated by the Estonian Financial… Read More

March 30, 2021 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cere Network (Cere), which claims to be the first Decentralized Data Cloud (DDC) platform, recently announced a $5 million private round and the official launch of their platform to application developers. Republic Labs, part of Republic, syndicated the deal. The $5 million round included the… Read More

March 30, 2021 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based P2P lender Proplend has introduced AutoLend 2, a new product that provides lenders the option to turn their investing activities on or off. The P2P property lending platform is offering an auto-investing option called Always On and a manual investment product referred to as… Read More

March 30, 2021 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s P2P lending platform, Linked Finance, recently welcomed the government’s extension of its €2 billion credit guarantee scheme. The Linked Finance team also confirmed that it has issued €7 million in loans through the scheme (to date). Linked Finance is proud to have provided over… Read More

March 30, 2021 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Folk2Folk, a unique peer-to-peer lender serving SMEs that operates multiple physical locations, has announced it expects to turn a seven-figure profit for its 2020 financial year. According to Folk2Folk, the anticipated profit of around £1 million is a significant increase from the company’s pre-tax profit… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Last week, the developers of Uniswap, a leading non-custodial Ethereum token exchange, announced that they had officially launched Version 3.0 of the platform. The Uniswap team reminded users that Version 1.0 was introduced back in November 2018 as a proof of concept for automated market… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European online lender October reveals that it works with firms from all industries so it can help them with financing the growth of their operations. The October team notes in a blog post that since 2016, they’ve been supporting companies and they offer them “the… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andres Luts, Chief Credit Officer at EstateGuru, an Estonia-based peer-to-peer lender facilitating secured loans, is responsible for managing the platform’s credit policy across several different European nations. Luts recently commented on how he approaches risk and how the platform assesses and evaluates borrowers. As noted… Read More

March 28, 2021 @ 10:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Christin Friedrich is CEO and majority shareholder of Innovestment, an alternative financing platform founded in 2012 that is focused on the long-term sustainable impact for SMEs based in Germany. She is also chairwoman of the board of the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN), the association that… Read More

March 28, 2021 @ 7:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a Tweet last Friday, Seedrs reported a big investment day for the platform where Passion Capital raised “over £2 million” in a couple of hours and MacRebur raised £1.6 million on Thursday. Seedrs said the first quarter of 2021 had been great. The comments… Read More

March 28, 2021 @ 1:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset marketplace Coinbase recently added several cryptocurrencies including Ankr (ANKR), Curve DAO Token (CRV), and Storj (STORJ) to Coinbase Pro, the platform for professional traders. Coinbase confirmed earlier this week that beginning on Tuesday (March 23, 2021), platform users will be able to transfer… Read More

March 28, 2021 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer-to-peer lending marketplace Mintos has shared its platform Risk Score update – which is based on monitoring and evaluating data from the last quarter of 2020. On the Mintos Risk Score updates page, you’ll find key information regarding any changes made to Mintos Risk Scores… Read More

March 27, 2021 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aspirasi, an online micro-financing and micro-insurance platform operating under Axiata Digital, is providing a more convenient and all-digital financing option for online consumers via Aspirasi CashNow. Now available via digital commerce platform Lazada Malaysia, Aspirasi CashNow is currently open for applications to all Malaysia-based residents… Read More