Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

May 7, 2025 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

eToro Group Ltd announced that it has launched the roadshow for its initial public offering (IPO) of 10,000,000 Class A common shares, 5,000,000 shares of which are being “offered by eToro and 5,000,000 shares of which are being offered by certain existing stockholders.” eToro expects… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic Note, a profit-sharing digital asset focused initiative by Republic, has reached a significant milestone with its Dividend Pool hitting $1.71 million. This figure represents 85.5% of the $2 million threshold required to trigger payouts to Republic Note holders. Republic Note 1. The pool is… Read More

May 4, 2025 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru, a European investment and financing platform for relatively small loans, continues to focus on the crowdfunding space. Estateguru has reported substantial repayments and a notable interest payout milestone, along with other key updates. In March, Estateguru reported €9.6 million in repayments to its investors, … Read More

May 4, 2025 @ 8:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trading and investing platform eToro is reportedly gearing up for its highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, potentially as early as next week. According to a Bloomberg report, the company’s debut comes as market volatility, spurred by President Trump’s tariff policies,… Read More

May 4, 2025 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a “developer-first” API brokerage platform, is focused in enhancing the ecosystem of financial services with various product offerings, strategic partnerships, and a new funding round. These developments underscore Alpaca’s mission to democratize access to financial markets globally, enabling businesses and retail investors. From launching… Read More

May 3, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) announced financial results for the first quarter of 2025, which ended March 31, 2025. Vlad Tenev, Chair and CEO of Robinhood said: “This quarter, we significantly accelerated product innovation across our key initiatives, highlighted by the announcement of Robinhood Strategies,… Read More

May 3, 2025 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry is reporting more than €3 billion in total funded loans and over 100 000 in total users. In April, PeerBerry reached a significant milestone of €3 billion in total funded loans via their online investment platform. The total number of platform users has now… Read More

May 1, 2025 @ 8:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the world’s derivatives and securities exchange network, announced it has begun to offer trading in its new Cboe FTSE Bitcoin Index futures. These cash-settled futures, reportedly based on the FTSE Bitcoin Reduced Value Index (Ticker: XBTF), are the latest… Read More

May 1, 2025 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Janus Henderson Investors has become issuer of actively managed Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) on SIX Swiss Exchange. This addition aims to provide further choice to investors. With Janus Henderson Investors, SIX welcomes its “18th issuer of active ETFs and 30th ETF issuer overall on the… Read More

May 1, 2025 @ 11:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Edward Jones is expanding its offerings to include alternative investments available to eligible clients in Edward Jones Generations, the firm’s private client service for U.S. high net worth investors (HNWIs). This move underscores the firm’s commitment to “providing sophisticated financial products, solutions and personalized experiences… Read More

April 30, 2025 @ 5:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Investing.com, a financial news, tools, and data platform, has launched WarrenAI, an AI-driven financial researcher. According to the company, WarrenAI debuts with more than 30 languages. While existing AI software such as ChatGPT sources data from the entire web, WarrenAI has exclusive access to vetted,… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yieldstreet, a private markets investing platform, and Upgrade Inc., a fintech offering “responsible” credit products to mainstream consumers, announced the completion of an agreement to “purchase assets through Flex Pay, Upgrade’s BNPL financing solution.” This partnership enables individual investors to “target passive income from exposure… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 4:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

bunq, a digital bank based in the Netherlands, now offers crypto investing within its app. The service is now available in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, and Belgium. Bunq states that it will roll out crypto trading across the entire European Economic Area, as… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 1:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to Peer lender Folk2Folk has posted a preview of 2024 performance. According to the company, its platform generated record revenue for the full year of 2024, marking its sixth consecutive year of profitability. Folk2Folk said the top-line revenue was £6.6 million for the year,… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has announced plans to pursue legal action against eight accounts suspected of orchestrating a sophisticated market manipulation scheme involving the VOXEL token, resulting in illicit profits exceeding $20 million. The move comes in response to unusual trading activity detected on April 20,… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

DealMaker, a tech-infused securities crowdfunding enabler, has announced new headquarters in New York City. Ostensibly, DealMaker was founded and has been based in Toronto. Having already established additional offices in the US, the move to the world’s leading financial center makes a lot of sense…. Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 5:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinList, a platform for investing in and trading digital assets, has rolled out two updates that allow users to earn passive income (an offering somewhat similar to other crypto platforms like Coinbase and Kraken).. By holding Solana (SOL) or Ethena’s USDe in a CoinList wallet,… Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 6:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken is pleased to introduce an asset class that brings the world’s largest financial markets to Kraken Derivatives — FX perpetual futures (FX perps). The first two perps launching “at 20x leverage are EUR/USD and GBP/USD, with more forex pairs on the way soon.” This… Read More

April 26, 2025 @ 7:34 pm By Michael Wong  |  

London-based fintech WineFi announced raising £1.5 million (about $2 million) in a Seed funding round led by British fine wine group Coterie Holdings, with participation from SFC Capital, Founders Capital, and a syndicate of angel investors. WineFi, founded by former Fidelity International and J.P. Morgan… Read More

April 26, 2025 @ 6:33 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Syfe, an Asia Pacific savings and investment platform, said it would acquire Australian digital broker Selfwealth in an all-cash A$65 million transaction after shareholders approved the deal. Under the terms, Syfe will pay A$65 million in cash for all Selfwealth shares, subject to court approvals… Read More