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September 14, 2020 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Insurtech Rnwl Crowdfunding for Growth Capital SyndicateRoom used to be one of the three top securities crowdfunding platforms in the UK. The Fintech has since morphed into an EIS fund that targets promising early-stage firms being backed by “super angels”. Co-founded by Gonçalo de Vasconcelos,… Read More

September 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Xu Gao  |  

CBIRC: Increasing Efforts to Crack Down on New Types of Illegal Commercial Insurance Activities Recently, the Anti-Illegal Financial Activities Bureau of China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) published an article entitled “Analysis of Illegal Commercial Insurance Activities and Regulatory Suggestions” in “Observation of Insurance… Read More

September 11, 2020 @ 11:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eran Haggiag, co-founder and Executive Chairman at Clear, a Fintech firm focused on transforming the current state of the B2B trading sector by enabling companies to easily transition from inefficient and manual processes to automated settlement and clearing systems, recently shared key insights with Crowdfund… Read More

September 10, 2020 @ 2:00 am By Therese Torris  |  

Founded in 2012 in France as an equity crowdfunding platform, the Anaxago group powers on with carrying out its strategy to be the first 100% digital neo-private bank. The group aims to give to the greater number access to financial products combining impact and performance…. Read More

September 8, 2020 @ 11:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a public statement, the Association of Online Investment Platforms (AOIP) has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to move quickly and to improve the regulatory environment to support small businesses during the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. Addressed to SEC Chairman Jay Clayton, and… Read More

September 7, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kokila Alagh, Founder of KARM Legal and a member of the MENA Fintech board, recently shared the latest updates from the Middle East region, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with Crowdfund Insider. Alagh works closely with the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), the Dubai International… Read More

September 6, 2020 @ 3:17 pm By Ram Alagianambi, Arun Sikka, Janna Goldberg and Louis Caditz-Peck  |  

Expand your business’ impact by designing smarter products that benefit customers Building great financial products should follow the same basic rules as building any other solid products. However, this post will go beyond the basics and discuss how we can build financial products to improve… Read More

September 4, 2020 @ 3:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, spoke at the Brookings Institue in the US this week and he tackled a hot topic: cryptocurrencies. More specifically, Bailey spoke about the efficacy, or lack of, when using certain digital assets in payment transactions. Bailey… Read More

September 3, 2020 @ 10:01 pm By Anthony Zeoli  |  

Its official, the “accredited investor” definition, which has not changed significantly since its enactment almost 40 years ago, has been massively upgraded. On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final amendments to the “accredited investor” definition which fundamentally change and broaden… Read More

September 3, 2020 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

SMART VALOR, a Switzerland based regulated digital asset exchange, has partnered with Republic Advisory, affiliated with leading investment crowdfunding platform Republic – a sister firm of AngelList and CoinList. According to SMART VALOR, this partnership will enable companies raising funds through most regions to gain blanket… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) will start processing Fintech applications to become federally chartered firms as soon as this week, according to a report. The acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks has only been managing the regulator since May… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 12:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

While TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) pursues a path of silence on the matter, yesterday’s outage is said to have been caused by a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) according to an industry insider. The TransUnion site is currently live and working fine as of this report…. Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 11:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The number of FINRA regulated funding portals continues to increase. Created by the JOBS Act of 2012, a “funding portal” is a bit like a broker-dealer light and may offer securities under Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding). While an approved broker-dealer may sell securities under… Read More

September 1, 2020 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

SafeToNet is First Company to Direct List on Seedrs Secondary Market. Seedrs, a leading online investment platform, has opened up its secondary trading platform to any private security. The move was anticipated and previously revealed as Seedrs further leverages its tech stack. Seedrs is the… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 8:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently caught up with Kendrick Nguyen, the co-founder and CEO of Republic, a leading US-based investment crowdfunding platform. He is also a founding director of the Association of Online Investment Platforms (AOIP). In July 2020, Republic added 30 more venture partners to its… Read More

August 30, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

David Dias, research engineer at Protocol Labs and the drand project lead, along with Nicolas Gailly, research scientist at Protocol Labs and the original author of drand, recently explained how they’re developing randomness solutions that are able to generate random numbers. This is important because… Read More

August 28, 2020 @ 12:15 pm By Ram Alagianambi and Arun Sikka  |  

How might hyper-personalization improve your products? Behavioral economics is the field of study which acknowledges that people are irrational beings; as explained by economist Richard Thaler in his book, Misbehaving, humans don’t behave the same way as theoretical decision-makers he calls ‘Econs’, who always make… Read More

August 27, 2020 @ 7:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Yann Murciano, CEO at Blend Network, an online peer to peer (P2P) property lending platform. Murciano discussed how he believes P2P lending has democratized investing for millions of investors. Blend Network connects lenders directly with borrowers. Lenders are able to… Read More

August 26, 2020 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

As widely anticipated, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) updated the definition of an Accredited Investor expanding the rule by adding certain sophistication criteria. The current definition defines an individual who earns over $200,000 a year ($300,000 if married) as accredited. If an individual has… Read More

August 25, 2020 @ 5:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

It should be obvious to most everyone that the current definition of an Accredited Investor not only disenfranchises the vast majority of the population it is not really an effective proxy to evaluate an individual’s ability to assess risk and the opportunity affiliated with private… Read More