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September 8, 2023 @ 12:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stock.estate has been approved to operate as a securities crowdfunding provider in Romania. The company has been approved by the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF) and is described as the first “crowdlending” platform in Romania. Stock.estate will provide loans to real estate developers for periods… Read More

September 8, 2023 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced charges targeting three DeFi, or decentralized finance, operations yesterday. These included Deridex, ZeroX, and Opyn. The CFTC alleges the offering of illegal derivatives trading. The CFTC charged Deridex and Opyn with failing to register as a swap… Read More

September 6, 2023 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uldis Tēraudkalns, CEO of Nexpay, a fintech scale-up providing business banking solutions for digital companies, recently shared his views and insights with CI. Licensed by the Bank of Lithuania and operating across Europe, Nexpay reportedly processes over €2.5 billion annually and has helped over 600… Read More

September 4, 2023 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As more countries implement real-time payments rails (including the U.S. in July with FedNow), the next big frontier in the industry is the race to develop the best real-time cross-border payments solutions. ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a global provider of real-time payments solutions, can speak… Read More

September 1, 2023 @ 4:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingRobot started its existence as a portal for peer-to-peer loan investors seeking to provide sophisticated tools for investors interested in the asset class. For a time, it was controlled by Fintech Nexus (LendIt or Lend Academy), which parted ways with the firm when Lime Financial… Read More

September 1, 2023 @ 12:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate investment platform CrowdProperty is reporting that over £200 million has been returned to investors since the property investment service launched. At the same time, CrowdProperty says that August 2023 has emerged as its best-performing month of all time. UK-based CrowdProperty offers individual investors… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 3:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, CI reported on the Association of Online Investment Platforms (AOIP) – the group that advocates on behalf of platforms raising capital online – submitting recommendations to FINRA regarding a request for feedback on improving capital formation. FINRA [Financial Industry Regulatory Authority] is… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Swift, a global financial services firm that is relied upon by more than 11,500 financial services organizations around the world, has announced a successful blockchain test deemed to show the potential for tokenized assets in the future. According to a statement by Swift, an experiment… Read More

August 29, 2023 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Travis Schwab, Founder and CEO of Eventus – a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance, algo monitoring, and risk control solutions. According to the firm, Travis has a deep background in capital markets and over 25 years of experience… Read More

August 29, 2023 @ 4:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin caught an updraft today following the news that Grayscale booked a victory in the US Court of Appeals in its ongoing battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in regard to its effort to list a Bitcoin ETF. Grayscale already trades the Grayscale… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 1:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation Crowdfunding or Reg CF has surpassed $2 billion in money raised, according to an email from Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA). Reg CF was created by the JOBS Act of 2012, signed into law during the Obama administration in a unique act of bipartisan legislation… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against Impact Theory and the issuance of an NFT or non-fungible token that was deemed to be an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities. This is the first NFT offering that the SEC has targeted for… Read More

August 26, 2023 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  As the banking landscape rapidly evolves, we decided to speak with Amit Dua, President at SunTec, a technology partner that claims to work with the world’s largest banks, helping them to improve their customer experience, pricing strategies, and ESG approach through technology-led solutions. Amit… Read More

August 24, 2023 @ 6:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bank replacement platform Honeycomb has emerged as a top FINRA-regulated funding portal in regard to the number of Reg CF filings hitting the Securities and Exchange Commission. While this is not a deep dive into funding activity for the industry, HoneyComb has entered the mix… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

A couple of years ago, a new online lending platform – Steward, was launched as the “world’s first CrowdFarming platform.” Steward was founded by Dan Miller, the co-founder of Fundrise, a prominent real estate investment platform. Miller had exited his leadership role at Fundrise and… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthony Leutenegger, Head of Growth at Aragon, the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) platform that grows with you and allows users to mint tokens, set governance, and easily onboard members, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Anthony Leutenegger of Aragon discussed the launch… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 8:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

One of the ongoing themes of the Fintech sector is the fact that agile early-stage firms can do better with less. This is especially the case with old financial services firms, like lumbering banks. While Fintechs tend to combine industry knowledge with a vision of… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 6:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

More gloom and doom in the marketplace. Forge is echoing what we are hearing from others that without heightened demand, prices are in decline for shares in private firms. According to a recent report by Forge, private companies are trading at a whopping 58% discount… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Lasha Atandze, CEO of Rarify Labs, a service provider for Rarimo, the interoperability protocol making digital identities and the decentralized social layer multi-chain. During our conversation, Lasha sheds some light on the importance of multi-chain access for social identities in today’s… Read More

August 17, 2023 @ 4:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Association of Online Investment Platforms (AOIP) provides feedback on FINRA’s request for input on improving capital formation. This past May, FINRA announced a request for comment on how FINRA rules may impact capital formation. The goal was to look for ways to increase efficiency… Read More