Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

October 11, 2017 @ 8:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Biz2Credit announced the release of its latest monthly analysis, which revealed that Business loan approval rates at big banks ($10 billion-plus in assets) hit another post-recession high in September 2017. According to the report, Small business loan approval rates at big banks improved two-tenths of… Read More

October 11, 2017 @ 7:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital, a fast growing peer-to-peer finance platforms based in the UK, reports it has facilitated £300 million in loans on its secondary market since its launch. The company said this was evidence of the demand by investors for liquidity ahead of natural loan repayments, and… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two years after raising £1.3 million through its first Crowdcube campaign, Crowdfunder UK has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform to raise £750,000 as it prepares to grow its partner network and further develop its reward-based funding portal. Founded in 2014, Crowdfunder UK… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 12:51 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

With 55 days remaining on its second Companisto campaign — the first raised € 7.5 million— the Weissenhaus Grand Village Resort & Spa By The Sea, a luxury resort situated directly by the Baltic Sea is aiming to raise €2 million.  Just days into the campaign the posh resort… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australia-based online lender SocietyOne announced on Tuesday it has secured $350 million in total originations. This news comes less than two months after the lending platform celebrated its fifth birthday. According to SocietyOne, the company topping $350 million as the current loan book also reached $200 million… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 10:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate marketplace lender Money360 announced on Monday it completed more than $100 million in loans during the third quarter of 2017. The platform revealed that the amount brings its total loan closings to over $450 million, with a target of $600 million in transactions… Read More

October 10, 2017 @ 7:19 am By JD Alois  |  

LoanBook, a large SME marketplace lender based in Spain, has formed a new partnership with Sage, a market-leader in cloud accounting, payroll and payments software, to offer Sage’s Spanish customers a direct, in-product channel to alternative finance options. According to LoanBook, Sage will offer its… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 2:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform RealtyShares announced last week it has financed several commercial properties in Texas. The funding portal revealed that a total of $10.1 million was raised for Sheraton DFW Airport Hotel and Texarkana Multifamily Portfolio. RealtyShares reported that it secured $2.4 million equity investment… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peer-to-peer business lending platform ArchOver announced on Monday it has nearly doubled its overall lending in the first nine months of 2017. The company reported that since 2017 its total lending has reached £21.39 million, bringing its cumulative total that has been lent to date… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 11:07 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Since launching CES in early 2017, Bodytrak, a copyrighted in-ear, multi-parameter body monitor and cloud analytics platform, has already secured 70% of its next funding milestone, and is launching on Capital Cell, a dedicated life sciences equity crowdfunding platform based in the UK and Spain… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Linked Finance, Ireland-based peer-to-peer lending company, announced on Monday the launch of its new type of pension account. The account allows holders of self-managed pensions to make P2P lending to Irish SMEs part of their pension investment portfolio. According to Linked Finance, the accounts have… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 10:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Argentina-based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Afluenta recently announced during its fifth-anniversary celebration it was launching commercial loans to the fifth version of its lending platform. According to the lender, in the latest version, it will add its own proprietary credit scoring and introduces commercial loans for people with commercial activities,… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 2:01 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mintos marketplace for loans now has more than 35 000 registered investors from 64 countries. Mintos states that approximately 2,000 new investors join Mintos each month. The growing pool of investors has allowed Mintos to help fund loans worth more than € 325 million through… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 1:45 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Fintech, The ID Co., says it is the first software specialist to offer lenders the capability to calculate and base lending decisions based on customers’ real earnings or verified income. The ID Co. has major clients in both the UK and North America including… Read More

October 7, 2017 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The Netherlands Crowdfunding Association has recently announced the nominees for the annual Crowdfunding Awards. The Assocation states that Dutch investors have contributed more than €400 million in more than 4,000 different companies. Many of these same investors became directly involved with entrepreneurs in their area through… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 9:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, UK-based peer-to-peer lending platform Landbay announced its September saw a total of £6.31 million lent across 31 mortgages and it announced five new hires.  According to Financial Report, last month’s lending levels were higher than the previous two months combined.  Among the new… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 8:00 pm By Therese Torris  |  

French online factoring platform Finexkap is pursuing its rapid, yet controlled growth. Doubling in size each year since it opened for business in 2014, the Fintech startup passed last summer the €100 million mark of cumulated financing. France remains one of the markets with the… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 2:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, peer-to-peer lending platform RateSetter announced it is celebrating its seventh anniversary this weekend. This celebration comes two months after the platform announced its lenders have now delivered more than £2 billion in loans to people and businesses across the UK and in doing so… Read More

October 6, 2017 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Racefields has announced that its debt trading platform RCX has garnered a listings value of £5.7 million in just two weeks following platform launch. The platform shares that each bridge loan is value from between £250,00 to £1.7 million. These loans are a mix of… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine has announced it has started to accept applications to list an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on its crowdfunding platform. The full stack crowdfunding platform publicly announced in August its intent to incorporate tokenized security offerings alongside more traditional types of securities. StartEngine enables companies… Read More