General News

June 9, 2018 @ 7:33 am By Cali Haan  |  

Computing’s “Temple of Open Source” -the Linux Foundation- has extended an olive branch to Microsoft by blessing its recent acquisition of the popular software collaboration platform GitHub. According to Github, over 28 million software developers use the site to co-build software and sift it for… Read More

June 8, 2018 @ 3:02 pm By Cali Haan  |  

“The millionaire is changing,” says glamorous London art dealer and Georgian noblewoman Eleesa Dadiani, and that millionaire needs a novel way to invest in art. Even the sub-millionaire can get involved now that Dadiani’s London Gallery has partnered with ‘decentralized’ gallery Maecenas Fine Art. Together… Read More

June 8, 2018 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

SharesPost, a provider of late-stage private company liquidity solutions and private capital markets research, announced on Friday it has appointed Vijay Chetty as its new Vice President of Business Development. SharesPost reported that before he joined its team, Chetty spent more than three years focusing… Read More

June 7, 2018 @ 11:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Finanbest, a Madrid-based licensed securities agency, offers a digital end-to-end wealth management solution for retail investors, reportedly reducing costs for clients up to 70%. The platform has partnered with Crowdcube to raise £175,000 for 6.22% equity. The agency was pre-valued at £2,638,522.  At this writing, the… Read More

June 7, 2018 @ 10:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cayman Island-based crypto market and portfolio analysis platform TokenAI has introduced Juliet, a proprietary Artificial Intelligence tool which aims to help both new and experienced cryptocurrency traders make smarter investments. Juliet seeks to integrate with TokenAI’s three core services: Individual Coin Analysis, Current Portfolio Rebalancing and… Read More

June 7, 2018 @ 9:57 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Earlier this week Revolut announced its plans to apply for a US banking license. Today the challenger bank indicated that it will launch a global trading platform to buy and sell listed stocks commission-free through which Revolut customers will be able to invest in companies such as Apple… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 10:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Asian Development Bank Institute and Academy of Internet Finance, Zhejiang University are collaborating on the Third Asia-Pacific Region Alternative Finance Industry Survey. The research will cover all forms of alternative finance… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Distributed Credit Chain (DCC) and Plug and Play China announced that DCC has joined the Plug and Play China’s “ecosystem” to drive the growth and development of the global fintech and blockchain industry. According to the duo, Plug and Play China has helped over… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 10:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With Money 20/20 comes exciting news! Case in point, Chainvine, a provider of cutting edge Distributed Ledger Technologies that develops bespoke, white label, blockchain platforms, is now publicly celebrating a £2.5M private equity investment from Deepbridge Capital. The platform works closely with management teams to create a… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 10:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fintonic, a money management and savings app operating in Spain and Chile, now counts BBVA as a partner. BBVA has signed up to be part of the Fintonic loans platform. Since launching six years ago with more than 760,000 aggregated bank accounts signed on, Fintonic… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 9:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Adyen, the Dutch payments platform that recently usurped PayPal’s reign at eBay, announced its direct API integration with the Mastercard Account Updater service. Qualified merchants processing with Adyen globally can now increase revenue from card-on-file payments by automatically updating Mastercard accounts in real time.The direct… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 8:41 am By Cali Haan  |  

Yesterday, Microsoft confirmed rumours it is acquiring GitHub, a largely-free software-collaboration platform considered the most popular “version control system” in the world. Microsoft reports that it paid $7.5 billion dollars of its own stock for the acquisition. Today Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5B by issuing… Read More

June 5, 2018 @ 6:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Dash, a digital currency for payments, has added IT industry veteran Bob Carroll as the new Dash Core Group Chief Technology Officer.  As CTO, Carroll will be in charge of leading the continued development of the Dash network and its products, including the development and… Read More

June 4, 2018 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Renew Financial, the inventor of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing and a leading provider of financing for home improvements, announced last it has appointed Kirk Inglis, currently Renew Financial’s CFO, as its new CEO. According to Renew, Inglis has more than 20 years of experience… Read More

June 1, 2018 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Orange announced on Thursday it has partnered with Google through Orange Digital Ventures (ODV), the Group’s corporate venture fund, to join forces in financing the best start-ups. According to Orange, through this partnership, Google will leverage ODV’s sourcing of start-ups to explore opportunities for co-investments… Read More

May 31, 2018 @ 9:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Last week Robo.cash surpassed a €4M investment milestone and briefly commented on new studies conducted by its analytical center.  Today the Latvian P2P lending platform Robo.cash tweeted a detailed infographic and Founder and CEO Sergey Sedov explained the findings on TechBullion: the younger generation of investors who consider P2P lending… Read More

May 31, 2018 @ 6:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Penarth-headquartered accountancy and business advisory firm Evans Entwistle has secured a £450,000 funding facility from ThinCats to support the acquisition of Bristol-based SBMC Business Management Limited. The client was introduced to ThinCats by Lime Corporate Finance. “This is a great deal for everyone concerned and… Read More

May 31, 2018 @ 6:23 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Orvium, an open-source and decentralized platform for managing scholarly publications’ lifecycles and associated data reportedly run by employees and technology solutions experts of several institutions and businesses, including the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Amazon, Oracle, as… Read More

May 30, 2018 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Buried within the “Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act” that was signed into law last week, was an expansion of Regulation A or Reg + that it is popularly called. The securities exemption is now available to not just private companies but also… Read More

May 29, 2018 @ 12:13 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Global growth markets investor Actis is now building an Indian Non-Banking Financial Company focused on secured lending to SMEs with a plan to fund the platform with up to US$220M of equity capital over a 5-year period. Actis is backing a team led by ex CEO… Read More