Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

November 28, 2018 @ 2:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The British Business Bank announced on Wednesday it has committed up to £150 million for lending to UK small businesses through Funding Circle. According to the banking group, the transaction is under its ENABLE Funding program and is designed to accelerate lending to small businesses and… Read More

November 28, 2018 @ 7:02 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has announced new fiat onboarding options including US dollars, British Pounds and Euros.  The news of providing more channels to participate in crypto comes following the announcement that GBX has received a full license as a provider of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). GBX is… Read More

November 28, 2018 @ 6:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Malta Digital Exchange (MDX), a multi-asset digital exchange, which focuses on security tokens and virtual financial assets (VFA), announced on Wednesday it has signed an MOU with German P2P finance platform finbc for the listing of their security token FBC. According to MDX, finbc will perform a security… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 1:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a full stack security token issuance platform, has announced the details of the forthcoming “equity token offering” (ETO) for their parent company Fifth Force Gmbh (token symbol FTH).  Announced last week, Neufund is poised to become the first European issuer to offer shares on… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 10:10 am By Cali Haan  |  

Nasdaq is proceeding with plans to list a Bitcoin futures product on its exchange despite Bitcoin’s waning fortunes in 2017, sources to Bloomberg say. Nasdaq hopes to have its Bitcoin futures market up and running by Q1 2018 and is working now to meet expectations at… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 9:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender October (formerly Lendix) has launched in the Netherlands. Alongside this expansion, the Paris based October is providing SME financing in France, Spain, and Italy. According to a note from October, SMEs may apply for loans ranging from €30,000 and up to €3.5 million. The marketplace… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 8:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Oamaru based New Zealand Whisky Collection has surpassed its equity PledgeMe crowdfunding campaign goal of NZ$500,000 last Wednesday from 212 investors. New Zealand Whisky has now extended its equity crowdfunding campaign until 17 December to meet investor demand; just over NZ$565,300 has been secured at this… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 10:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Almost immediately after revealing a $12.75 million funding round, Securitize has formed a partnership with Elevated Returns to boost their real estate tokenization program in Southeast Asia. Securitize is a token compliance platform and protocol for issuing and managing digital securities on the blockchain. Elevated Returns… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 10:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australia based Birchal believes that equity crowdfunding may be the “silver bullet” for SMEs turned away by traditional banks. Pointing to a recent note from the Australian Small Business Finance Advisory Panel that many small businesses find it challenging to access finance, Birchal believes Fintech… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 4:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

KoreConX announced on Monday it has formed a partnership with CrowdCheck Law LLP, a law firm that is seeking to help companies navigate through the JOBS Act regulations. According to KoreConX, CrowdCheck Law, LLP is an affiliated law firm of CrowdCheck, Inc., a market leader in compliance… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wealth Migrate, a real estate crowdfunding platform, has announced it’s intent to move from its South African roots to set up shop in the Capitol of Fintech – London, once all regulatory hurdles are cleared. In a release, Wealth Migrate expressed its opinion that the… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 1:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

RealCrowd, a real estate crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, has launched a new marketplace to provide access to newly formed Opportunity Zone fund investments. According to RealCrowd, the new offering will focus solely on investments offered by third-party real estate sponsors that intend to be… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize has announced a $12.75 million funding round led by Blockchain Capital. Additional investors include Coinbase Ventures, Global Brain, NXTP, OK Blockchain Capital, and Xpring at Ripple. Brad Stephens from Blockchain Capital will be joining Securitize’s Board of Directors. Securitize said that Tokyo-based VC firm Global Brain will assist Securitize with business development… Read More

November 26, 2018 @ 7:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than six months after surpassing £40 million in online lending, UK based peer to peer lender in the property space, Proplend, announced on Monday it has now reached £50 million in online lending. According to the lender, all loans are commercial property backed, comprising a… Read More

November 25, 2018 @ 5:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Progressa, a Vancouver-based financial technology company focused on helping sub-prime and near-prime Canadians seeking to improve their financial health, announced last week it is partnering with Alternative Credit Fund, a Vancouver-based specialty credit fund, to facilitate up to a $13 million forward flow whole loan purchase program… Read More

November 23, 2018 @ 11:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Platform for tokenized venture capital assets, VNX Exchange, has partnered with the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT). The partnership is said to create a new standard of security for the digital assets ecosystem. VNX Exchange says that custody has… Read More

November 23, 2018 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender creditshelf has reported results for the first nine months of 2018. As of the reporting date, the company recorded requests amounting to € 750.6 million, more than twice as much as in the first nine months of 2017. creditshelf said it was able… Read More

November 22, 2018 @ 3:29 pm By Therese Torris  |  

October (formerly Lendix), the newly rebranded European SME lending marketplace made a splash today with what is probably the most creative promotional campaign in the history of crowdlending. To date, the October platform has facilitated more than €240 million worth of loans to 500 small… Read More

November 22, 2018 @ 12:19 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The transfer of the recently hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif to new owners has been finalized, says a release from the new owners, FISCO. For a time, the Zaif system will operate independently of the  Fisco Cryptocurrency Exchange (FCCE), which is already operating, but will… Read More

November 22, 2018 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) has approved a full license to the Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) under Gibraltar’s Financial Services Regulations 2018 DLT [distributed ledger technology] framework. GBX is a subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group (GSX Group). GSX now claims to be the first… Read More