Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 3, 2020 @ 8:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Recently approved funding portal, Fundopolis announced last week two additional businesses issued investment opportunities for customers and community members to fund their growth and development. One of the new issuers, Aviana Holdings, Inc., is an Orlando, Florida-based point of care (POC) diagnostics company developing a… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 6:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, closed out January 2020 with its strongest performance in the past seven years, open interest on Bakkt surged to yet another all-time high on January 31 for physically-settled BTC futures contracts. Meanwhile, institutional traders on the CME Group prepared… Read More

February 2, 2020 @ 9:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

SMBX, a marketplace for buying and selling small-business bonds, announced on Friday it has teamed up with Degrees Plato, a U.S.-based owned-and-operated taproom, bottleshop, and Mexican kitchen, to launch the Degrees Plato’s (PLTO) Small Business Bond offering. According to SMBX, the offering enables investor to… Read More

February 2, 2020 @ 4:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

FrontFundr, a Vancouver based Fintech and leading investment crowdfunding platform in Canada, is raising capital while advocating on behalf of a more common-sense approach to online capital formation. Canada is a smaller market that has an active early-stage community and a dedicated professional sector promoting… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO, an established security token platform that’s managed and owned by e-commerce firm Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK), issued a release letter on January 31 which outlines and recaps the company’s business performance during the past year and it reveals its roadmap for this year. The letter, prepared… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 3:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a week after launching its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, UK-based peer-to-peer lending startup Elfin Market successfully secured its initial 400,000 funding target. The campaign so far has attracted more than 125 Seedrs investors. As previously reported, Elfin claims to be the world’s… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 3:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marketplace lending company Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) announced on Thursday it was named first place winner of the Center for Financial Professionals (CeFPro) FinTech Leaders 2020 Report’s “Business Lending” Category. According to Funding Circle, the FinTech Leaders 2020 Report is an independent study of the… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

MERJ Exchange, the official stock exchange of Seychelles and a marketplace seeking to leverage digital security offerings, has partnered with Liechtenstein-based CurioInvest to tokenize “supercars” enabling investors to participate in security tokens backed by collectible cars. According to MERJ, the listings could bring up to… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-based digital asset exchange Bitfinex has introduced margin trading for Tether gold (XAU₮). Beginning on January 30, 2020, the exchange has confirmed it will support margin trading for XAU₮ with trading pairs for major fiat currencies including the US dollar and Bitcoin (BTC). Bitfinex’s… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 5:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Folk2Folk, a localized peer to peer lending platform, is reporting a “record year” regarding its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) offering during 2019. The company states that it accepted £10.5 million in IFISA investments, more than double that of the previous 18 months. Folk2Folk says that… Read More

January 30, 2020 @ 4:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Elfin, a UK-based peer-to-peer lending startup, is now seeking £400,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2016, Elfin claims to be the world’s first peer-to-peer lending platform where borrowers get a line of credit that they may draw upon as often as… Read More

January 30, 2020 @ 11:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Private lending syndication platform CrowdOut Capital announced on Wednesday the completion of a term loan and a delayed draw growth facility to Wild Wing Cafe. The restaurant chain, originally from Hilton Head, South Carolina, owns and operates a successful restaurant franchise with 44 system-wide restaurants,… Read More

January 30, 2020 @ 10:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendUp, a socially responsible online lender on a mission to redefine financial services for the emerging middle class, announced on Thursday it has surpassed $2 billion in consumer loans through its digital lending platform. The company reported that since 2012 it has provided more than… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 1:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

goPeer, a peer to peer lending platform, has received regulatory approval as an exempt market dealer in both Quebec and Ontario. In Canada, financial services are regulated at the provincial level and thus most aspiring Fintechs must receive approval to operate in each province.  goPeer… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 3:16 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, the leading global investment crowdfunding platform, has announced a presentation by Dr. Ferid Murad, 1a 998 Nobel prize winner in medicine, to take place at its upcoming Global Investor Summit (Israel – February 13). Dr. Murad will address the topic of China’s Coronavirus and… Read More

January 29, 2020 @ 2:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle (LSE:FCH), an online lender servicing SMEs in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands, has securitized $252 million in US business loans, according to a note from the platform. This is Funding Circle’s 7th securitization and the second to take place in the… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 1:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerStreet, a leading platform for investing in real estate backed loans, announced on Tuesday it has appointed Ellen Coleman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Coleman reportedly joined the PeerStreet team last year and was previously named  EVP of Finance. The platform noted that Coleman… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 6:05 am By Therese Torris  |  

French Fintech Anaxago pioneered alternative finance by launching an equity crowdfunding platform in 2012. Profitable since year one, the company entered real estate investing in 2014. In 2018, it launched an asset management arm, Anaxago Capital. Not one to be standing still, the company’s co-founders, Joachim… Read More

January 28, 2020 @ 1:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Rnwl, an Insurtech created by serial entrepreneur Gonçalo de Vasconcelos who founded top UK crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom, is having a dilemma. Committed to raising capital via the industry where he got his start, de Vasconcelos is it torn between using Seedrs or Crowdcube to raise… Read More

January 27, 2020 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marketplace lending company Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) announced on Monday it has appointed Oliver White as its new Chief Financial Officer, following Sean Glithero’s decision to step down from his CFO role and from the Board. White will be joining Funding Circle from Vanquis Bank,… Read More