Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

April 27, 2020 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, a marketplace facilitating property-backed loans for SMEs, is touting its “first” 100% contact free transaction for a property loan. According to EstateGuru, the platform financed a reconstruction of a property where everything happened without a single face to face meeting  – an interesting ability… Read More

April 27, 2020 @ 8:26 am By JD Alois  |  

STOKR S.A. has partnered with payment platform Lemon Way S.A.S, thus allowing for registration with the French financial regulator Autorité de Control Prudentiel et de Resolution (ACPR) as payment service agent (a​gent prestataire de services de paiement​). STOKR is now subject to the supervision of… Read More

April 26, 2020 @ 10:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Credibly, a small and medium-sized business lending platform, announced on Friday it has been named an Approved Lender for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). As previously reported the U.S. Senate passed $484 billion in new pandemic relief funds to provide additional funding to the PPP… Read More

April 26, 2020 @ 8:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Hoare, chief credit officer at UK-based RateSetter, a leading peer to peer (P2P) lender,  recently explained what impact the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic could have on the lending market and what it might mean for credit risk. Hoare is tasked with overseeing the management of… Read More

April 25, 2020 @ 7:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto asset exchange Coinbase has introduced its own price oracle in order to further enhance the resiliency of the price feed process. An oracle is a price feed offered by a third-party. It provides real-world financial data to a decentralized network. Nearly all… Read More

April 24, 2020 @ 5:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Blandina, former CEO at Bakkt, the cryptocurrency trading desk owned by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), will be stepping down from his role just four months after his appointment. ICE’s management noted on April 23, 2020, that David Clifton, Bakkt’s vice president for mergers and… Read More

April 24, 2020 @ 1:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Seedrs is unique in the fact it has created a viable secondary marketplace for crowdfunded securities. While still rather small, where other platforms have struggled Seedrs has incorporated an effective trading platform that continues to iterate, evolve, and expand thus providing an element of… Read More

April 24, 2020 @ 12:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs announced on Friday the launch of his new platform, Our Fair Share. According to the Entrepreneur and Media Mogul, Our Fair Share is a platform built to help minority entrepreneurs and small businesses access to much-needed funding amid the economic devastation caused… Read More

April 24, 2020 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

While most asset classes have been pummeled by the COVID-19 virus, AxiaFunder‘s crowdfunding platform is providing access to a non-correlated investment class that is unique when it comes to online capital formation. Founded in 2019, AxiaFunder is the UK’s first for-profit litigation funding platform. Basically,… Read More

April 23, 2020 @ 1:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, a digital asset primary issuance platform, is now facilitating instant trading of digital securities. According to a release, Securitize can now enable peer to peer trading of digital securities with zero counterparty risk that is fully compliant. “Instant Access” uses Securitizes “DS Protocol” to… Read More

April 23, 2020 @ 8:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Banking and finance industry organization UK Finance announced on Thursday that its latest data revealed more than £2.8 billion has been lent to SMEs so far through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). The organization reported that total lending under CBILS has doubled in… Read More

April 22, 2020 @ 2:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru is a peer to peer lender based in Estonia that has grown to over 46,000 investors from 106 countries originating more than €200 million in loans to date. The debt-based crowdfunding platform is now preparing to raise capital via Seedrs – and the offering… Read More

April 22, 2020 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lendsmart and Griffin Technologies, two U.S. fintechs that are building software for banks and credit unions, announced on Wednesday they have partnered to provide their customers a complete end-to-end solution for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was created under the original CARES Act following the COVID-19… Read More

April 22, 2020 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, the world’s largest crowdfunding venture investment platform, has announced it would lead a $12 million funding round in MigVax Corporation – a startup that is developing a COVID-19 vaccine. MigVax is affiliated with the Migal Galilee Research Institute, is pioneering the effort to develop… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 4:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a somewhat shocking but not unexpected move, LendingClub (NYSE:LC) has announced a round of layoffs and furloughs today as the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the Fintech hard. In brief, loan originations for the mainly consumer lender, have tanked requiring the Fintech to reposition itself… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 1:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Funding Xchange (FXE), a UK-based fintech that helps people and organizations find suitable business loans and funding options from its marketplace of more than 45 established lenders, announced on Tuesday it has formed a new partnership with Experian to launch an online service for banks… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

The record date for the Overstock digital dividend is nearing (Ex-dividend April 24 and the “Digital Voting Series A-1 Preferred Stock dividend” will be distributed on May 19th). The dividend will trade on the tZERO ATS. Earlier today, tZERO announced that GoldenSand Capital (formerly known… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 11:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RiverNorth Marketplace Lending Corporation, an established and currently operating as a closed-end interval fund dedicated to the marketplace lending asset class, announced last week it is restructuring to expand the fund’s investment mandate, the Board of Directors of the Fund (the “Board”) has approved changes… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 9:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Pankaj Balani, CEO at Delta Exchange, an established digital assets derivatives trading platform. Delta offers cryptocurrency futures and derivatives trading across Bitcoin and major altcoins with up to 100x leverage. The company aims to support the ongoing growth and development… Read More

April 21, 2020 @ 7:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Oneplanetcrowd, a crowdlending platform, has received € 1 million in growth finance from the European Investment Fund to support social entrepreneurship. The funding from the EIF came via the EU’s Employment and Social Innovation Programme Capacity Building Investments window. According to a statement by the… Read More