Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

December 1, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Bondora notes that getting rich or financially secure might be a goal for everyone, but asks whether your bank account savings can help you achieve your financial goals. Bondora, which claims that over 143,000 individuals have invested more than €391M… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 3:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business funding platform Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday it recently won two prestigious marketing awards for its work in 2020, the Davey Award (Awarded for Rebranding), the MarCom Award (Awarded for Video Animation) and was a finalist at the Benzinga Global FinTech Awards in the… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase has announced that with the launch of Ethereum 2.0 (a major system-wide update to Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency network), they’re planning to introduce staking rewards for customers. Staking allows users to deposit digital assets on a platform or exchange… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 9:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs continues to update and iterate its secondary marketplace for private securities. As was reported this past summer, Seedrs enabled variable pricing for trading to take place on the market but there were still certain restrictions tied to the last valuation of the company. At… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 9:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Proptee, a new property investment platform, is planning to launch operations in the UK in January 2021. The platform will aim to connect potential investors with buy-to-let landlords. Proptee will let landlords list various properties on its platform. Investors will be able to acquire shares… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 3:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australia’s marketplace trade credit platform Marketlend recently announced it has expanded its Asian division by appointing Andrew Ross to lead origination and insurance endeavors for Marketlend throughout Asia. Ross will notably assist Marketlend to expand its presence in trade commodities, insured backed discounted trade credit… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 1:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

FT Partners, the leading Fintech focused investment bank in the US, has posted a presentation that covers the investment crowdfunding sector while incorporating a Q&A with SeedInvest founder and CEO Ryan Feit. SeedInvest is also a FINRA regulated broker-dealer and has been approved for an… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Mintos, a Fintech that recently closed a securities offering on Crowcube, is reporting that it has set a new record when it comes to an offering for a continental European funding round. The offering has raised €7.2 million in total backed by over 7000… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Engel & Völkers says that following its first project in Spain, the investment platform will expand its partnership with the logistics park in the Villaverde district of Madrid. In September, Engel & Völkers reports that in just 30 hours it raised €2… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 11:05 am By JD Alois  |  

INX Limited, a digital asset platform that received approval from the US Securities and Exchange Commission to issue a digital security, says it has signed a letter of intent for its first issuer the Diamond Standard Coin. The tokenized asset is based on diamonds. The… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Following a successful securities offering on Seedrs earlier this year where EstateGuru raised over €900,000, the Fintech has solidified its expansion into Germany – a country that has long been home to a good number of platform investors. EstateGuru was founded in Estonia in 2013… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, recently published the results of a survey performed with assistance from OnePoll on “the state of the financial climate” in the UK. As noted in a blog post by Paxful, sentiments include recent notions about the country’s traditional banking… Read More

November 26, 2020 @ 1:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ENGIE, a French service firm listed on the stock exchange, will be working with online SME lender October to develop an engagement platform based on “the financial participation of employees in internal projects.” According to the October team, the financial platform, i-DEAL, was introduced in… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending marketplace Mintos has surpassed £7 million on Crowdcube on the final day of the securities offering. The Mintos security offering should be one of the largest offerings on Crowdcube for 2020. Mintos is raising equity capital at a pre-money valuation of… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 7:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany-based CrossLend, a platform that provides a digital debt marketplace with a goal to make the global lending and investment ecosystem more efficient, transparent and profitable, is reportedly offering its Europe-based lenders access to its data analytics software free of cost. CrossLend said the tools… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Bristow, CEO at CrowdProperty, a property investment platform, says that there’s likely to be a significant increase in overall activity in the UK’s property market. Bristow believes that the surge in transactions should come toward the end of the stamp duty holiday. Bristow’s comments… Read More

November 24, 2020 @ 9:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic Cities, an initiative by the crowdfunding platform to create a local connection in cities around the US, has launched in Dallas, according to multiple reports. Earlier this month, Republic acquired the small business crowdfunding platform of Nextseed, a one-time FINRA regulated funding portal and… Read More

November 24, 2020 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize has received regulatory approval to acquire the FINRA regulated broker-dealer Distributed Technology Markets, LLC (DTM). The pending acquisition was announced last October and includes the Velocity Platform, LLC, a money services business with money transmitter licenses in several states. DTM also includes an alternative trading… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 10:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The HM Treasury has stated that it’s ultimately the responsibility of lenders, and not necessarily the nation’s government, to recover debts under the different COVID-19 loan schemes and packages. The UK government’s four main business support schemes, which includes the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Four peer to peer lending platforms were recently ranked among the United Kingdom’s fastest-growing tech firms. Big Four auditing company Deloitte’s UK Fast 50 list ranks tech companies based on their overall revenue growth over the last 4 years. As stated on the accounting firm’s… Read More