Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

May 3, 2024 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru is pleased to announce that their investors have now provided €800,000,000 in funding through their platform. The projects they have funded are now said to be “a feature of the modern European landscape, and a testament to the constructive power of informed investment.” The… Read More

May 2, 2024 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, the platform focused on tokenizing real-world assets, announced the successful completion of a $47 million funding round led by BlackRock (Nasdaq: BLK). The strategic investment also includes funding from Hamilton Lane, ParaFi Capital, and Tradeweb Markets. This investment underscores Securitize’s efforts in “digitizing capital… Read More

May 1, 2024 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO is a recognized trailblazer when it comes to digital securities. An early adopter of the concept of tokenization and digital assets, today, tZERO is a regulated Broker Dealer and an SEC-approved alternative trading system (ATS). Utilizing blockchain technology, tZERO enables both digital securities and… Read More

April 30, 2024 @ 11:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, Equitise, a securities crowdfunding platform operating in New Zealand and Australia, received an “infringement notice” from the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA). According to the FMA, Equitise had failed to file its financial statements prior to the deadline, among other concerns about… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ETC Group is announcing the launch of its latest Exchange-Traded Product (ETP) on Deutsche Börse XETRA. The ETC Group Core Bitcoin ETP (ticker BTC1; ISIN DE000A4AER62) has “been tailored specifically for benchmark-conscious, long-term buy-and-hold investors, and global institutional investors with extended liquidity and risk management… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform GenoCrowd has launched the fourth projectwith the AS Group of companies. The AS Group is a real estate investor, investment manager, and developer based in Berlin with subsidiaries in Hamburg, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Cologne, and Frankfurt am Main. The company focuses on… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the derivatives and securities exchange network, announced plans to refocus its digital asset business to leverage its core strengths in derivatives, technology and product innovation while realizing operating efficiencies for both Cboe and its clients. These changes are being… Read More

April 26, 2024 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new report from CoinGecko has looked at the latest market share of centralized crypto exchanges in terms of digital currency trading volumes. Binance has reportedly remained “the largest centralized exchange (CEX), with its market share at 49.7% in March 2024. Its spot trading volume… Read More

April 26, 2024 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

As CI has covered in the past couple of years, the European Union created harmonized rules designed to improve online capital formation under ECSPR, or European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regulation. Advocates, like EuroCrowd, have lobbied the EU for years to advance the common-sense approach of… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Societies, the unified SME (small and medium enterprises) digital finance platform in Southeast Asia, announced a partnership with Singapore E-Business (SGeBIZ) – a digital procurement, payment and sourcing platform provider – to bring B2B (business-to-business) embedded finance (EmFi) solutions to businesses in Singapore, that… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rialto Markets, a broker-dealer that specializes in online capital formation, including the full stack of crowdfunding exemptions, has shared some highlights of its activity during Q1 of 2024. According to Rialto, its new Rialto Markets Enterprise Solutions (RiMES) has signed up several new customers. RiMES… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

PeppercornAI has raised £3.25 million in a funding round aided by the participation of Wealth Club, which invested £1.9 million in the Insurtech firm. The funding included high-net-worth investors and existing investors EHE Capital and Angels Invest Wales. Wealth Club offers sophisticated investors investment opportunities typically… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, announced that it is expanding the range of fund shares it offers in tokenized form with the provision of the BlackRock ICS US Treasury money market fund1 (MMF). This builds on its launch of tokenized access… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 9:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

While Fundrise continues to pound the table on its newish early-stage investment fund with non-stop commercials on CNBC, the company is quietly generating decent returns on the legacy side of the business of real estate investments. According to a recent report, the Fundrise Flagship Fund… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

DWealth Education and dVIN are partnering on an initiative to “bring blockchain proficiency and economic opportunity to the global investment-grade wine ecosystem.” dVIN is a blockchain-based platform for the wine market. The company says it will introduce a digital asset dubbed $VIN (Vincoin) later in… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partners – real estate developers Lithome and SIB Group– have now reportedly repaid investors two loans totaling €1.79 million with interest. As noted in a blog post by PeerBerry, Lithome has repaid a one-year term loan of €750,000 (the real estate project “Baltupio… Read More

April 22, 2024 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru has shared its latest Loan Portfolio Overview for the month of March 2024. Estateguru says they have “originated €6.9M worth of loans in March, with the majority of funding coming from Estonia, and Latvia.” Estateguru reveals that it “saw €8.4M in loan repayments, with… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hitoshi, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Alpaca notes that Alpaca has transitioned to self-clearing at DTCC. As noted in a blog post, this is a key milestone since they started “a regulated brokerage business five years ago.” It’s a pivotal milestone for them because this… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced the launch of iCapital Marketplace, a one-stop-shop connecting wealth managers and advisors “with a broad menu of alternative investment opportunities across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real assets and… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdProperty, a property investment platform, has announced a new feature called Instant Decision in Principle (iDIP). This feature aims to speed up the financing process for developers. The feature will be officially revealed at the Property Investor Show in London this weekend. CrowdProperty explains that… Read More