Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

December 10, 2019 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs announced on Monday it has formed a new partnership with GS1 UK to help support small business growth in the UK. GS1 UK describes itself as a community of more than 38,000 members working in the retail, healthcare, SME and Marketplaces…. Read More

December 9, 2019 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

NextSeed, previously a debt-focused Reg CF platform, has recently listed its first real estate offering for a property being redeveloped in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. Securities are being issued under Reg D 506c – so accredited investors only. According to NextSeed, ARRIVE Albuquerque “offers a… Read More

December 9, 2019 @ 4:43 pm By Cali Haan  |  

HBUS, a compliant US-based crypto trading platform formed in partnership with popular China-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, has announced it is closing its doors. Huobi announced the plans in a tweet titled “HBUS Cease to Operate”: “We regret to inform you that HBUS will need to… Read More

December 9, 2019 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK based Smartlands will be tokenizing its own equity selling a 3.5% equity stake in the platform, according to a note from the company. Smartlands is a digital security issuance platform that claimed earlier this year to have tokenized the first property investment in the… Read More

December 9, 2019 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, P2P property lender Landbay announced it would no longer accept retail money as it moved away from the peer to peer lending model. Managing P2P investors is simply too costly for the amount of money raised. Over time, institutional money pushed out smaller… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Property investment platform CrowdProperty has topped £20,000,000 in capital returned during 5 years of lending, according to an email from the company. CrowdProperty states that since platform launch, approximately £55 million has been lent which has helped to finance over £130 million of property and… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

October, a European marketplace lending platform for SMEs has signed the United Nation’s “Principles for Responsible Investing.” October claims to be one of the first online lenders to agree to the “UN PRI.” The UN PRI defines responsible investment as a “strategy and practice to… Read More

December 6, 2019 @ 3:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

B-North, a UK-based business lending company, is now seeking £1,750,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The company is now offering 10.94% in equity at a £14,247,942 pre-money valuation. Founded in 2018, B-North aims to change the face of business lending by aiming to… Read More

December 6, 2019 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday in a blog post, Landbay founder and CEO John Goodall announced that his property crowdfunding platform will no longer serve as a peer to peer lender as institutional money has taken over. Landbay said that a UK bank will now handle the current retail… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a Berlin-based investment platform, has successfully closed the offering of e-mobility company, Greyp Bikes raising €1.4 million. Greyp, an eBike creator and a spinoff from Rimac Automobili, launched the security token offering in September. Greyp claims to be the “future of mobility” and the… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

New peer to peer lending rules come into effect on Monday, December 9th. The new rules were the result of a review by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The UK largely created the entire sector of peer to peer lending. One of the most… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 7:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

Huobi, one of a few cryptocurrency and online lending businesses in China to have survived a recent “rectification” spree, will be hosting an International Cooperation Forum on Digital Economy and Blockchain on the island of Hainan December 5th and 6th. The “state-sanctioned event,” says Huobi,… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

A group of former Morgan Stanley executives is launching a crypto derivatives exchange in a move to rival the CME. Phemex, a trading platform that claims to be able to manage 300,000 TPS, is said to be on par with the technical capabilities of the… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 7:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-headquartered Migo, a Fintech firm that has developed a cloud-based lending solution, revealed on December 3 that it secured $20 million following the first closing of its Series B investment round. New York-based Valor Capital Group, an international VC firm with a special focus… Read More

December 3, 2019 @ 11:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fintech unicorn SoFi announced on Tuesday the New York State Department of Financial Services has approved its bitlicense application, allowing SoFi Invest customers in New York to trade cryptocurrencies on its platform through SoFi Digital Assets, LLC. SoFi revealed that the bitlicense approval comes just… Read More

December 3, 2019 @ 2:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerStreet, a leading platform for investing in real estate backed loans, announced last week that more than $3 billion in loans have been transacted through its marketplace portal since its launch. The latest milestone comes just one month after PeerStreet secured $60 million through its… Read More

December 3, 2019 @ 11:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Property investment for the average person usually involves making investments in projects that have already been completed. However, there’s now an opportunity to invest in property projects before they’re actually completed. This has been made possible by leveraging blockchain technology. It can take several years… Read More

December 3, 2019 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Zopa raised £140 million, the company’s largest funding round since launch. According to a note from Zopa, the additional capital will enable Zopa’s banking entity to “fulfill its regulatory capital requirements.” This is key to removing its current restrictions on… Read More

December 2, 2019 @ 8:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Birchal will launch secondary trading of CSF securities in 2020, according to a note from the company. Birchal is a leading “crowd-sourced funding (CSF)” platform in Australia. The new marketplace, announced today, will be called Birchal Trade. There has been a good… Read More

December 2, 2019 @ 3:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marketplace lending company Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) recently unveiled its £250 million securitization of SME loans with Waterfall Asset Management. The duo reported that the portfolio brings the total amount of UK Funding Circle loans securitized to £1 billion and the deal will notably open up… Read More