Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 2, 2019 @ 6:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Property Partner is now offering an Innovative Finance ISA (IF ISA), according to a release from the property crowdfunding platform. Just like a regular ISA, investors may place up to £20,000 per year into an IF ISA account, which may then be used to invest… Read More

January 31, 2019 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a leading UK based investment crowdfunding platform, has launched a new fund for investors in early-stage firms. The EIS100 Fund enables passive investors to gain exposure to 100 or so individual companies over a 12 month period. Of course, investors benefit from the wonders… Read More

January 31, 2019 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Boerse Stuttgart Group has officially launched their long-anticipated crypto asset trading platform: Bison. The regulated stock exchange has released an App after a year of development, available for both iOS and Android, to enable the trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin. This is a no-fee trading… Read More

January 31, 2019 @ 1:21 am By Therese Torris  |  

At the Paris Fintech Forum, Charles Egly, Co-founder & CEO, Younited Credit highlighted his company’s latest achievements and the recent strategic development of its Credit-as-a-service offering. Among the achievements, Younited Credit announced that it passed the €1 billion mark in consumer credit origination. Among direct… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 2:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online student lending platform, Climb Credit, announced on Wednesday it secured $50 million in lending capital from the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group. Since launching in 2014, Climb reported it has originated nearly $100 million worth of loans, funded the education of nearly 10,000 students and partnered with over 100… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 9:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

dv01, a platform that connects online lenders and investors with data management, announced on Wednesday it secured $15 million through its Series B funding round, which was led by Pivot Investment Partners with participation from Regions Financial Corp., as well as existing investors, including Quantum Strategic… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Property finance investment platform LendInvest has funded a £7.35 million bridge loan for an “industry-leading developer” in under seven days. The online investment platforms says they stepped in to fill a void left by another lender. Daniel O’Neil, Director at SPF Private Clients explained that… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) continues to add new digital assets for trading on its regulated and insured token sale platform. Today GBX has announced the addition of Stellar Lumens (XLM) to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX). GBX is part of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 4:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Equidate has rebranded to become Forge Global, Inc. (Forge). Forge is an online marketplace for pre-IPO securities, like Spotify, Lyft, 23 and Me and others. Forge reports having topped $1 billion in transactions. Alongside the change of name Forge announced the expansion of its Series B funding… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 1:00 am By Therese Torris  |  

The Paris Fintech Forum gathers more than 2,500 participants this week in Paris at the old stock exchange to meet hundreds of Fintechs and listen to more than 200 CEOs, heads of government and regulation agencies, as well as luminaries such as Ms Christine Lagarde,… Read More

January 29, 2019 @ 11:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securitize, Coinstreet Partners, and STO Global-X, a security token exchange platform, have inked a strategic agreement to bring one-stop, end-to-end digital security offering services to the Asian market. Securitize is a compliance platform and protocol for issuing and managing digital securities on the blockchain, including… Read More

January 29, 2019 @ 1:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cryptoasset-to-USD lender BlockFi announced on Tuesday it has added Coinbase Ventures and Able Partners to its list of investors. This news comes just a little over a month after BlockFi secured $4 million in convertible debt investments led by Akuna Capital with participation from Susquehanna Government Products, LLLP,… Read More

January 29, 2019 @ 8:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peer to peer lender Lending Works announced on Tuesday it has surpassed £150 million in successful loans to households and firms. The online lending platform reported it has so far helped more than 25,000 people to get a better value personal loan since its launch in January… Read More

January 29, 2019 @ 3:13 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Trustwire, a secure, file exchange and storage solution, aims to dethrone Dropbox. The newly launched platform recently synced with Wefunder to raise a $1,000,002 maximum target. At this writing, the campaign has surpassed $102K with the confidence of more than 113 investors, thereby meeting its minimum… Read More

January 28, 2019 @ 2:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

US-based investment crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder (not to be confused with the UK based Crowdfunder) may be in trouble. Recently, CI viewed a copy of an email that appears to indicate that the company will restructure soon. According to a Dear Fellow Shareholders email, while certain shareholders… Read More

January 28, 2019 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

While there seems to be a newly minted crypto exchange or marketplace minted every week, today we learn about on that is shutting down. In a “Dear Users” post, Liqui announced that its “Crypto Exchange journey” had come to an end. Due to insufficient liquidity… Read More

January 26, 2019 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK), began trading its very own security token on Friday. Long anticipated, the event was foreshadowed earlier in the week when Overstock founder and Blockchain advocate Patrick Byrne said he was “ready to hit the button” and turn tZero on…. Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 4:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

iFunding was an early entrant into the real estate crowdfunding sector. Once Title II of the JOBS Act became law (Reg D 506c), it opened up a new world of online promotion for securities offerings and real estate almost immediately became one of the hottest… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 5:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a security token offering platform, completed its first issuance of digital securities in their parent company, Fifth Force GmbH, company last month. The purchased tokens will be minted for shareholders on February 12, if everything goes as planned. The equity token raised an equivalent of €3… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 3:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

U.S.-based online lending platform Lendio announced on Wednesday it has donated more than $130,000 to underserved business owners nearly 80 countries through Kiva microloans. According to Lendio, the donations were given through continued efforts to support business growth around the world, the Lendio Gives program has funded more than 5,000… Read More