General News

January 28, 2019 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation is a big deal. GDPR was designed to better protect consumers and their digitized information. While clearly not perfect, GDPR is the direct result of big corporations failing their customers with poor security protocols, lackluster attention to cyberfraud… Read More

January 27, 2019 @ 9:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, FINRA issued its annual Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter for 2019. The letter is a reference point as to what FINRA expects to target in the coming year. The missive includes an opening by FINRA President and CEO, Robert Cook, who said… Read More

January 27, 2019 @ 12:47 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Sources to Bloomberg have claimed that The Bank of England (BOE) is refusing to release $1.2 billion USD of Venezuela’s gold to the country’s officials. A delegation led by Calixto Ortega, president of Venezuela’s central bank,  reportedly visited London in December seeking access to the… Read More

January 26, 2019 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) gained a nice accolade this week as a write-up in Inc. anointed CIS as one of the Best Blockchain Events of the year – no small praise in a sector of conferences that have been overrun by too many events… Read More

January 25, 2019 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

OTC Markets Group has published their annual OTCQX Best 50 list. The list is a ranking of top-performing OTCQX companies in the prior calendar year which include both domestic and international firms. OTC Markets is a popular marketplace with many global companies that are headquartered outside the… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 3:51 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Yesterday the Israeli tech company Lending Express, celebrated surpassing $100 million in financing facilitated between small and medium business owners and online lenders and obtaining state permission to open for business in California. The lending platform, led by CEO & Co-Founder Eden Amirav, is poised for further growth… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 5:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kadena is now offering blockchain as a service, free of charge, on the AWS marketplace. The new offering should make the tech far more accessible to a diverse group of potential users. AWS has more than a million enterprise users and is one of the… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 2:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) has announced the creation of a new group entitled the ECN-Italian Strategic Group (ECN-ISG). The ECN is the leading pan-European voice for investment crowdfunding. The objective of the ECN-ISG Working Group is to foster a more robust culture of crowdfunding in… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Horizon Globex US,  a security token software provider, has signed its first deal to license its internally developed software solution, CustodyWare, to V Stock Transfer, an SEC-registered transfer agent and registrar. VStock will now be able to take custody of tokenized securities issued pursuant to… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Lending Express, an Israeli tech company dedicated to creating a better world of funding for SMBs, has surpassed $100 million in financing facilitated between small and medium business owners and online lenders. Lending Express also obtained state permission to open for business in California. The… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 9:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

KoreConX announced on Tuesday it has formed a partnership with Agoracom, a small cap community that has connected over 5 million investors and public companies in a moderated, smart discussion. According to KoreConX, Agoracom is the Web 2.0 online marketplace and forum for citizens of the small-cap… Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 4:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

UK fintech business lender MarketInvoice has raised £26M in new equity funding during a Series-B funding round led by Barclays and Santander’s $200M fintech fund InnoVentures with significant participation from European venture fund Northzone, an existing investor in the company. Technology credit fund Viola Credit, who… Read More

January 20, 2019 @ 12:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

“Due to the boom that the commercialization of these assets,” profits from the sale and trading of bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are now taxable in Chile, Diario Bitcoin reports. Chilean tax authorities have added a special provision to tax form 22, a deliberately vague, catch-all… Read More

January 20, 2019 @ 10:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

An average of $2 million USD in Bitcoins per day is still flowing into Dark Net markets, despite an 80% price slump and the mid-2017 shuttering of Alpha Bay and Hansa, two popular Dark marketplaces, Reuters reports. Reuters says that flow represents a doubling of… Read More

January 19, 2019 @ 6:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

The StartEngine Index tracking Reg CF crowdfunding issuers was published a few days ago. According to StartEngine, total successful offerings since the securities exemption was launched in May of 2016 now stands at $161.5 million. So how does 2018 compare to the year prior? Excellent question…. Read More

January 17, 2019 @ 10:31 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Criminals are using stolen credit cards to buy Fortnite “V-bucks” then sell it “in-bulk” on the dark net to wash the proceeds- and the company doesn’t seem to be doing much about it, say cybersecurity experts cited in The Independent. According to Benjamin Preminger, a senior… Read More

January 17, 2019 @ 7:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

KeyBank National Association announced on Wednesday KeyBank and Laurel Road Bank have entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition by Key of Laurel Road’s digital lending business. KeyBank reported that through the acquisition it will enhance its digital capabilities with customer-centric technology. According to… Read More

January 17, 2019 @ 7:24 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Indian media platform Inc42 just released its Indian Tech Startup Funding Report 2018. According to the report, during 2018 Indian startups received $11 B total funding across 743 deals. While in 2017, 4 startups took away a little more than half the funding $6.9 Bn, in 2018… Read More

January 17, 2019 @ 3:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The IronX Exchange, a joint venture between global multi-asset broker IronFX and Cardano (ADA coin) creator EmurgoHK. The exchange has a full range of both crypto and fiat wallet funding options. Just in: IronX has raised $26,319,447.92 via its token sale. “The IronX token sale… Read More

January 16, 2019 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

KoreConX announced on Wednesday that E5A Integrated Marketing, a New York-based marketing agency specialized in capital raising, has joined the KorePartners Ecosystem. According to KoreConX, E5A helps companies raising capital to target with precision all of the appropriate audiences, including qualified and accredited investors. Their experienced team uses logic and… Read More