Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 11, 2015 @ 9:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kinetix Trading Solutions, Inc., a leading technology solutions provider for the capital markets, announced today that Paul Puskuldjian has joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer.  The Princeton, NJ based firm has expanded its product set and offerings in the past year and will… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 9:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Azimo, the online money transfer service, has announced that customers can now send money to Thailand, direct to a personal or business bank account. “Great weather and the cost of living being 40% less than in Western Europe makes Thailand a popular destination for Europeans… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

investUP (known as UP), the crowdfunding supermarket, launches its platform at Finovate Europe. UP brings the P2B (P2P and equity coming soon) crowdfunding market together in one place, enabling users to invest via one centralised portfolio. It allows investors to search for deals from all their… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 7:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  David Haber is the co-founder, CEO and visionary behind Bond Street, an online lender that empowers small businesses by providing financing in a simple, transparent and fair way. Haber leads Bond Street’s overall company vision, strategy, fundraising and business development functions. Through Bond Street, Haber aims to… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 3:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Orchard Platform, an analytics and investment platform focused on the global marketplace lending market, has announced a partnership with Mainspring Funding, a leading provider of aggregation and sales of small business loans. Through this partnership, institutional investors using Orchard will have access to loan portfolios… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 12:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

  The latest peer-to-peer lender to set up shop in the Australian market, ThinCats Australia has introduced something different to the model by using finance brokers as intermediaries. ThinCats Australia is a joint venture between local investors and ThinCats UK, which was established in 2011 and to… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 12:22 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Upper Street, the luxury made-to-order shoe firm,  has already secured over £46,750 of its £200,000 fundraising goal round on Seedrs for the 6.6% equity offered. Valued at £2,822,490, the London-based shoes label founded five years ago by Katy Chandler and Julia Elliott Brown aims to  revolutionize the way women shop for shoes… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 11:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

CircleUp announced a new partnership with the leading online financial advisor, Personal Capital. Members can track their CircleUp investments in the Personal Capital app, across both desktop and mobile devices. The integration aims to allow investors to centralize their public and private market investments for the… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, the industry’s only end-to-end lending solution built natively on Salesforce.com, today announced its new customer LendingPoint, a non-bank direct lender that aims to meet consumer demands for online borrowing options. LendingPoint has successfully used Cloud Lending as a foundation to go from concept… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 7:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday (February 10th), Kreative Krowd, a crowdsourcing marketplace, officially launched its services for all creative freelancers. Whether its University or college students from creative departments looking for a part-time job opportunity or building their work experience portfolio to professional freelancers or anyone with a… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 7:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, has announced that it led a $19.5M Series E funding round for Borro, the UK-NY based, asset-backed online lender. Borro launched in 2009 in the UK, and has gone on to open offices in New York and Los Angeles.  It is a leading… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 6:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

RateSetter, a UK based peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform has announced it has surpassed half a billion lent since the site launch in 2010. RateSetter has also shared that the Company processed over £43 million in January and states this is the most ever lent by any P2P platform… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to share his thoughts about the new year, CEO of PENSCO, Kelly Rodriquez revealed his top five predictions for 2015. During a recent post on the platform’s blog, Rodriquez stated, “As the CEO of PENSCO, I find myself at a fascinating intersection between IRAs, alternative… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 3:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform of GCC and Middle East, Durise, is launching its services online to all  investors in the region and also to those outside region who wish to invest in the market through crowdfunding. The platform’s current offering is one of Dubai’s most prestigious properties, Old… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 2:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Crowdfunding analytics, optimization and promotional tool, Krowdster, recently launched an affiliate program for crowdfunding consultants and publishers. The new project reportedly capitalizes on Krowdster’s explosive growth. Since opening for business nine weeks ago, the unique Krowdster web app has racked up more than 2000 active users…. Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 1:47 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Monexo recently launched its peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform in Hong Kong.  Co-founder, Mukesh Bubna, enters the space with 20 years experience in consumer banking throughout Asia,  including 18 years at Citibank in Asia where he spent 10 years in product and marketing. Prior to that he was CFO, and… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 1:11 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Yinfu Gold Corporation (“ELRE”) (OTC PINK:ELRE) today announced that it is in the process of acquiring Dongguan YouDai Financial Information Services Co., Ltd (YouDai), a P2P lending platform, from Eternal Fairy International Ltd., (EFI), a British Virgin Island corporation. ELRE has executed an agreement to acquire… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 12:57 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

BorrowersFirst, a next-generation lending platform that provides personal consumer loans, announced that seasoned financial services executive Dave Tomlinson has joined the company as president and CEO, as well as appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. Tomlinson chose to join BorrowersFirst because of its unique value… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 12:31 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Today EBS Technologies launched the crowdfunding campaign on Companisto, already surpassing 22,710€ of its minimum 100,000€ goal with the help of over 60 backers. The innovative tech company is valued at 6,800,000 €. Already backed by three major investors, namely the German venture capital company Earlybird, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (high-tech… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday (February 9th), CoinDesk announced that Hong Kong bitcoin exchange, MyCoin, has allegedly shut down and even took off with as much as $386 million in investor funds. The situation came to light on Friday when nearly 30 people claimed to be victims of the… Read More