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November 19, 2020 @ 9:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently connected with Bruce Pon, Founder of Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data. Pon is also the CEO at BigChainDB, which is an organization that allows app… Read More

November 18, 2020 @ 9:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mintos, a European marketplace for loans, launched a securities crowdfunding offer on Crowdcube earlier this week. The equity sale quickly surpassed its £1 million hurdle and as of today, the offering has raised over £6 million backed by more than. In the process, Mintos set… Read More

November 18, 2020 @ 3:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Google, part of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) is pushing deeper into Fintech with a redesigned Google Pay App in a natural step for one of the largest tech firms in the world. Caesar Sengupta, General Manager & VP, Payments and Next Billion Users for Google, said in… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 10:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has selected Nakamoto Terminal (NTerminal) as the winner of Project Streetlamp, the CFTC’s first competition under the Science Prize Competition Act of 2015. The CFTC states that as part of the competition NTerminal will also be recognized as the… Read More

November 17, 2020 @ 3:00 pm By Emma Channing and Chris Tse  |  

  2020 has been an interesting year for Ethereum and its programming language Solidity. While much of the news regarding Ethereum has been about high gas fees and 2.0’s imminent arrival, there is a shiny new kid on the block that has received most of… Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 3:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic, a leading investment platform and crowdfunding marketplace has acquired the assets of NextSeed small business investment platform for an undisclosed amount. NextSeed co-founder and CEO Youngro Lee will become Chief Operating Officer of Republic while remaining CEO of NextSeed Securities for the foreseeable future…. Read More

November 16, 2020 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Netcapital has emerged as one of the top FINRA regulated funding portals in the sector of online capital formation that has grown to over 55 approved crowdfunding platforms.  Last month, it was reported that Netcapital was a top 5 funding portal raising around $2.5 million… Read More

November 15, 2020 @ 6:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Pavel Bains, CEO at Bluzelle Networks, a company and platform that aims to develop fast, adaptive, and agile distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based solutions for the finance sector. Bains talked about the challenges associated with working on centralized platforms. He discussed… Read More

November 13, 2020 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Humayun Sheikh, CEO of Fetch.ai, an organization that’s focused on developing machine learning and AI-enhanced solutions for the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) sector along with offering services that may be compatible with traditional financial platforms. Sheikh commented on the recent… Read More

November 13, 2020 @ 1:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently connected with Prashant Fuloria, CEO at Fundbox,  an AI-driven credit platform for B2B commerce. Fundbox focuses on “disrupting” the $21 trillion B2B commerce market by developing the first B2B payment and credit network. Sellers (of all sizes) are able to use Fundbox’s… Read More

November 12, 2020 @ 11:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Camino Financial, a Fintech platform providing affordable credit and financial products for US Latino businesses, recently published a report on Latino-owned Businesses (LOBs) covering Q3 as well as insight into the impact of COVID-19 on these businesses. The US Latino Small Business Survey offers insights… Read More

November 11, 2020 @ 11:00 am By Stephanie Vaughan Weichsel  |  

We are now over three years into the decentralized finance market, and although we have renewed enthusiasm, the results haven’t begun to materialize in a meaningful way.  Ryan Selkis: Founder of Messario Crypto tweeted last week saying “You say “DeFi is just tech bros learning… Read More

November 10, 2020 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Daniel Dabek, the Executive Director and Chief Software Architect at the Safex Foundation, an organization supporting blockchain-focused e-commerce solutions. Dabek explained how Safex aims to “democratize” the digital commerce engine by leveraging blockchain technology. He believes that distributed ledger technology (DLT)… Read More

November 9, 2020 @ 9:39 am By Dror Futter  |  

TL;DR – The SEC announced a series of amendments (likely to be effective early next year) to the rules governing private offering exemptions – by far the most frequent path for venture fundraising.  The amendments retain the same “menu” of exemptions but make incremental improvements…. Read More

November 7, 2020 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently connected with Dave Hodgson, Chief Investment Officer at NEM Group and Managing Director NEM Ventures. NEM (XEM) is a major blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) based platform for building and deploying decentralized applications (dApps). Hodgson’s role encompasses group investment management, jurisdictional… Read More

November 6, 2020 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Patricia Montesi, Co-Founder and CEO at Qolo, a Fintech firm focused on B2B payments and facilitating cost-effective cross-border transaction processing. Montesi discussed what her company is doing to help businesses with settling payments in a more efficient manner. She also talked… Read More

November 5, 2020 @ 10:00 am By Lauren Descout  |  

The events of 2020 have caused many people to reassess how they manage their businesses. Treasurers were forced into an unprecedented situation where they had to manage cash and international payments from suppliers and customers at a time of significant uncertainty and instability – all… Read More

November 4, 2020 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

As previously reported, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has updated the exempt offering ecosystem – changes that impact online capital formation including Reg CF and Reg A+. The amendments published the SEC include funding cap increases to both the aforementioned exemptions while additional updates,… Read More

November 2, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By Ryan Feit  |  

Today marked a major turning point for the private capital markets in America.  While most of the country is squarely focused on the election, the SEC quietly passed dramatic improvements to securities laws for startups, small businesses and investors everywhere.  The SEC’s actions today signified,… Read More

November 2, 2020 @ 12:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

During an open meeting of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commission approved updates to the exempt offering ecosystem that are designed to improve access to capital, boost access to greater opportunity for investors while maintaining important investor protection criteria. In a party-line vote,… Read More