Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 10, 2020 @ 1:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australia-based marketplace lender SocietyOne announced on Monday it has established a warehouse facility arranged by NAB, alongside securing $15 million through its recent equity raise, to support growth. According to SocietyOne, the warehouse facility is also scalable to support the lender’s continued growth, as borrowers… Read More

February 10, 2020 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) and its co-founders have been a leading voice advocating on behalf of online capital formation since Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss and Jason Best helped to create the language of the JOBS Act law that legalized securities crowdfunding in the United States. Neiss… Read More

February 10, 2020 @ 7:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitbond, a Germany based Fintech that provides online lending and tokenization services, has announced a new partnership with a regulated bank, Bankhaus von der Heydt. Bitbond will now help the bank provide  asset structuring and asset servicing using blockchain technology. Bankhaus von der Heydt was… Read More

February 10, 2020 @ 2:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Top online investment platform OurCrowd is out with a note on its Sportstech portfolio companies as a fast emerging opportunity for investors. OurCrowd is holding its annual Summit this week and Sportstech will be just one of the industries the event will highlight. OurCrowd CEO… Read More

February 9, 2020 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BISON, the digital asset trading mobile app created by a subsidiary of Germany-based stock exchange, Börse Stuttgart, recently revealed that it has now onboarded more than 81,000 users during its first year of operations. Börse Stuttgart’s cryptocurrency trading venture also confirmed its plans to add… Read More

February 9, 2020 @ 2:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Snowball Effect, the top crowdfunding platform operating in New Zealand with about 70% of the market, recently distributed an update on platform progress. A highly curated marketplace, Snowball Effect was the first crowdfunding platform to launch in New  Zealand back in 2014. According to the… Read More

February 8, 2020 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of Compound, a decentralized Ethereum-based lending protocol that forms part of the nearly $1 billion (at current valuations) DeFi ecosystem, had commissioned a stress test, which now reveals that the platform will be able to scale its total borrowed ETH value by 10x… Read More

February 8, 2020 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Fitch Ratings has upgraded the rates on several notes that are backed by loans from marketplace lending platform Prosper. According to Fitch, the ratings on the Class B and Class C Series 2018-1 (PMIT 2018-1) notes have improved due to the “growth in hard credit… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OnDeck (NYSE: ONDK), a small business online lending platform, recently announced he has appointed Linda Tan as its new Head of Internal Audit. OnDeck reported that Tan will oversee its Internal Audit team and deliver independent, objective assurance and advisory audit services that align with… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly $1 billion is now locked up into the evolving decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, according to data site DeFi Pulse. The site tracks major Ethereum-based lending protocols including Maker, a projected managed by the Maker Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports the MakerDAO initiative, which… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 6:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

NextSeed, a Reg CF funding portal and broker-dealer, has distributed an update on platform progress.  According to an email from the platform,  NextSeed investors have now received over $5 million in payments via the platform. Last year, NextSeed distributed over $2 million in payments thus… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 9:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ocrolus, a fintech infrastructure company that transforms documents into actionable data, announced on Thursday it has launched a new lending program through a partnership with Kiva, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to connecting people through lending. Ocrolus reported that with the Kiva program it is working… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marketplace lending company Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) is reportedly supporting a U.S. business loan transparency law. According to P2PFinanceNews, the online lender is backing the California introduced law, which will require certain data to be disclosed in commercial credit agreements much like consumer loans. Head… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 3:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Former advisor to President Trump Jason Greenblatt will be speaking at the OurCrowd Global Summit taking place on  February 13th. Greenblatt is the Former U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East and architect of President Trump’s Peace to Prosperity plan . This will be Greenblatt’s… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset exchange BlockQuake has applied for a New York State BitLicense with the New York State Department of Financial Services, according to a company release. Upon approval, BlockQuake will be able to engage in virtual currency business activity in New York State. BlockQuake also… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Twino and Via SMS, two Latvia based online lending platforms, are joining forces to enter the Asia-Pacific market, according to a release. The two companies are launching a consumer lending platform names Vamo in Vietnam as their first step in the new venture. The two… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Security Tokens and Real Estate. Recently the University of Oxford published a paper on digital assets and real estate. Entitled, “Tokenization: the Future of Real Estate Investment?“, the document believes there is potential in tokenizing the popular asset class but also sees certain challenges. For… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 7:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-headquartered digital real estate investment platform BrickVest has reportedly been acquired by Patrizia, a Germany-based firm. Details regarding the terms of the deal and the amount paid for the purchase have not been shared publicly. Established in 2014, BrickVest allows customers to invest in pre-screened… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

iSTOX, a blockchain-based platform, is now the first digital securities issuance, custody, and trading platform, licensed in Singapore. iSTOX recently “graduated” from the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Fintech Sandbox program and has received regulatory approval to operate and provide digital asset issuance and trading. This… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US residents now have another zero-fee option to purchase Bitcoin (BTC) using the US dollar. On January 30, 2020, Tokyo-headquartered digital asset exchange bitFlyer introduced its commission-free service for the BTC/USD trading pair to its US-based clients. bitFlyer’s zero-fee feature is currently only being offered… Read More