Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

March 13, 2024 @ 3:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Italy Crowd, a real estate investment platform, has decided to withdraw its application with CONSAB, the securities regulator in Italy, to issue securities under the new EU securities crowdfunding rules. At the same time, Italy Crowd has formed a partnership with Bridge Asset – another… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Honeycomb Credit, a FINRA-regulated funding portal that provides online capital formation for small businesses, is reporting that it has surpassed $25 million in money raised for small businesses. Honeycomb can help SMEs sell securities online under the Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) securities exemption. Firms may… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic is not only the largest investment crowdfunding operator in the world but it is also very active in the crypto-sphere. Republic also offers its own digital asset – the Republic Note which trades on INX, a digital asset platform in which Republic has invested…. Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 3:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise, an online investment platform that specializes in real estate assets, has received a $770 million credit facility from JP Morgan. The financing was revealed earlier this month and is expected to be used for “35 purpose-built rental communities” or 4000 build-for-rent (BFR) units. These… Read More

March 11, 2024 @ 7:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

SmallChange, a FINRA-regulated funding portal, is reporting that it has added five partners to the platform as it aims to expand its offerings. SmallChange is a real estate crowdfunding platform that provides access to capital under Reg CF. The company says that the new partners… Read More

March 8, 2024 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Dalmore Group, a top investment crowdfunding platform supporting the full stack of securities exemptions, has announced a new service: DalmoreSpark. Dalmore shares in an email that DalmoreSpark is a portfolio of tools for firms raising money online to help “elevate your pitch” and to enhance… Read More

March 7, 2024 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Online investment firm Republic has announced a new partnership that will see the Fintech expand into the Middle-East. According to a note from the firm, Republic has formed a partnership with Stake, an online investment platform for real estate in Dubai. Republic claims the deal… Read More

March 6, 2024 @ 9:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) says it has surpassed $10 billion in trading during the overnight trading. Robinhood defines overnight trading as Sunday-Friday from 8pm ET – 7am ET. The brokerage said that some of its busiest days much trading occurs outside of traditional market hours or around… Read More

March 6, 2024 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish, a digital asset exchanges, announced that its affiliate, BTH, has partnered with Paxos, the blockchain and tokenization infrastructure platforms. The collaboration offers traders and market makers “significant liquidity on the Bullish exchange for the regulated, PayPal USD (PYUSD), PayPal’s stablecoin issued by Paxos, and… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE)  announced the final closing of Hamilton Lane Strategic Opportunities Fund VIII. The Fund represents approximately $700 million in commitments “from a wide range of institutions, including over 50 investors across North America, Asia, EMEA and Latin… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru is sharing its loan portfolio for the month of January 2024. Estateguru says that it saw €6.1M in loan repayments in January, “with an additional €0.5M from recovered loans.” Estateguru says it also saw total returns amounting to €1.2M euros, with “an average return… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, a global online investment platform providing smaller investors access to private securities offerings, is partnering with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) as part of its sector fund, the OurCrowd AI Fund. NVIDIA is the hottest artificial intelligence firm around today, as just about everyone needs their technology… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eric Demuth, CEO at Bitpanda, reveals that they’re launching LeadBlock Bitpanda Ventures (focused on Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals). When the team first created Bitpanda, there wasn’t much help available to them. There also wasn’t enough funding and there wasn’t expertise they could draw… Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO is sharing that the McNeill Investment Group is raising money on its Securities platform. tZero has inched into online capital formation, having listed several securities offerings. The platform is listing the offering under Reg D 506c and is thus only available to accredited investors…. Read More

March 5, 2024 @ 7:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), a global alternative investment manager, announced that funds managed by its Alternative Credit strategy have launched Ansley Park Capital, a newly-formed lending and specialty finance company “that delivers full spectrum, customized financing solutions for essential-use, large-ticket equipment.” Ansley Park’s management… Read More

March 4, 2024 @ 12:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Online investing platform Webull is reportedly planning to go public through a potential $7.3 billion merger with a blank-cheque company. Webull intends to list on the Nasdaq during the second half of 2024. This, after reportedly agreeing to a definitive deal with special purpose acquisition… Read More

March 3, 2024 @ 6:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca now supports limit orders and extended hours trading for fractional shares. As noted in a blog post from Alpaca, trading in fractional shares is considered to be “a crucial tool for investors.” Alpaca says that it opens the door “for individuals to invest in stocks… Read More

March 3, 2024 @ 5:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) recently announced during the ETHDenver conference that its digital wallet users may now transact via Arbitrum. The latest integration is set to enable seamless access to decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms for new crypto clients by significantly reducing the complexity of L2 transfers…. Read More

February 29, 2024 @ 1:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) says that customers may at some point mistakenly send unsupported tokens to their Coinbase address on an unsupported chain. One example of this is BNB Smart Chain (formerly known as Binance Smart Chain) – which is currently “not supported by Coinbase and as… Read More

February 29, 2024 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Honeycomb Credit, a FINRA-regulated Funding Portal, raised equity capital at the end of 2023. According to the Form D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Honeycomb sold $8.844 million in shares of the firm. Of note, Honeycomb raised new money in the amount of… Read More