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July 19, 2015 @ 11:52 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

    With China’s stock market crash still recent, the People’s Bank of China (PBC) released guidelines for the country’s rapidly burgeoning online finance market at the start of this weekend, outlined in a document published by the PBC.  The peer to peer lending industry in… Read More

July 19, 2015 @ 4:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Christian Catalini, a professor at MIT Sloane School of Business, is a prominent crowdfunding researcher and he believes he has discovered the “killer app” for crowdfunding in partnering professional investors with the crowd. Angel investors and VCs have been leveraging “syndication” for a very… Read More

July 17, 2015 @ 1:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Back in January of this year, Crowdfund Insider covered a patent lawsuit that sought to challenge many of the prominent US crowdfunding platforms in operation today.  This included both rewards/donations and investment crowdfunding platforms.  AlphaCap ventures, a company that has been described as a patent troll,… Read More

July 16, 2015 @ 5:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Treasury Department has published an RFI on the operating environment surrounding Marketplace Lending. Previously labeled “Peer-to-Peer lending”, as the industry has grown a more diverse ecosystem has evolved. Today much of the funding is from institutions and a lesser portion is coming from smaller investors. The RFI… Read More

July 16, 2015 @ 10:58 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Australia’s crowdfunding scene recently took the spotlight with the news that CoAssets, a Singapore-based real estate crowdfunding platform, would publicly trade shares on NSX, an Australian stock exchange. On the investment side, Aussie real estate crowdfunding platform Estate Baron has recently secured backing of note: from Benni Aroni, founder of WaterSun Homes… Read More

July 15, 2015 @ 11:00 am By Chris Tyrrell  |  

  According to Inc.com, the emergence of the JOBS Act has created around 1,500 to 2,000 jobs since its inception. And according to the organization Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers, women will create more jobs and keep the economy churning, provided they have the capital… Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Luxe.Co & Fashion.VC have announced raising RMB 10 million (USD $1.6 million) via equity crowdfunding. According to the company, investors included ZhenFund led by Xu Xiaoping plus 12 angel investors.  Xiaoping is the founder of New Oriental a publicly traded company on the NYSE. Luxe.Co… Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 8:47 am By Anthony Zeoli  |  

  What started as an action against a single company in late June has evolved into a probe of an entire industry. As reported by the Wall Street Journal late last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a new probe spurred by… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The gloves have come up with the Dot Bluetooth earbuds campaign. After raising $300,000 on Kickstarter the campaign was suspended by Kickstarter staff. Creator Ivan Kan quickly defended his product, one that had been called out by potential backers as a straight copy of products which… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 2:00 am By Geoff Miller, CEO, GLI Finance  |  

The Emergency Budget This week saw the first Budget in the UK since the Conservative Party achieved a surprise win in the General Election in May. As the previous coalition government had already made promising steps towards the implementation of legislation which will improve access… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 1:05 am By Therese Torris  |  

Seedrs is a star among equity crowdfunding platforms. Founded in 2009 in the UK, the company pioneered innovations such as raising funds for several crowdfunding platforms – including itself – and launching a crowdfunding campaign for a listed company. Such bold moves have made Seedrs… Read More

July 8, 2015 @ 3:40 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  A co-creator of the legislation that eventually became the JOBS Act of 2012, Candace Klein, Chief Strategy Officer for marketplace lender Dealstruck, joined the crowdfunding movement unintentionally. Candace was drawn in through her nonprofit, Bad Girl Ventures, and in the process founded her second company, began working with the… Read More

July 8, 2015 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Korean National Assembly has passed a set of laws to boost economic growth and incorporated in the new legislation was an act that legalizes crowdfunding.  According to a report by G3 Partners based in Seoul, prior to these new rules entrepreneurs were limited to… Read More

July 8, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Elio Motors, one of the very first companies to take advantage of the new Regulation A+ rules, part of the JOBS Act, allowing possible issuers the option to “test the waters” prior to an offer, has captured almost $17 million in expressed investor interest in just… Read More

July 8, 2015 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

  The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s summer budget was said to put economic security first and was a plan for “working people”. But incorporated in the policy statement was also aspects that should benefit disruptive financial firms on both the debt and equity side of… Read More

July 7, 2015 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Singapore based real estate crowdfunding platform CoAssets will publicly trade shares on NSX, an Australian stock exchange. This comes as CoAssets announces expanding its platform into Australia.  According to a report from the company, CoAssets, the first crowdfunding site for real estate projects in Southeast Asia, will… Read More

July 6, 2015 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Millennium Trust is a large IRA custodian you probably have never heard of unless you are in a similar business or a client of the firm. Headquartered in Chicago, Millennium Trust operates nationally but has set it sights on getting far bigger. The privately held… Read More

July 5, 2015 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider recently published an article about a worrying issue in the crowdfunding space: Crowdfunding campaigns that are not really innovative and new but simply re-packaged products already for sale elsewhere – typically on Alibaba.  Since all things tech are mostly manufactured in Asia – many… Read More

July 3, 2015 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to expand its line of motorized vehicles, Plymouth-based Wildcat has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £1.5 million for its new off-roadsters, the W22 and MV-LSV.  The raise represents a 15% equity stake in this 35 year old company.  There is also a tired reward program… Read More

July 2, 2015 @ 12:39 pm By David Klein  |  

By now, you’ve more than likely heard about Goldman Sachs’ plans to launch an online consumer lending unit as early as next year. Yes, Goldman Sachs, the 146-year-old Wall Street giant best known for focusing on the 1%, is making a bet on Main Street with plans… Read More