General News

April 17, 2018 @ 1:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Russia-based Sberbank and the Higher School of Economics’ (HSE) business incubator announced on Monday they are beginning to review ideas for startups that were submitted to the corporate business accelerator. The duo reported that around 600 projects were submitted during the first stage, which notably… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 12:08 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

ArchOver, the UK P2P business lending platform, aims to bridge the funding gap to enable businesses to continue to grow while waiting for their R&D tax claim to be repaid. ArchOver’s Research & Development Advance (RDA) service is reportedly the first provided by a P2P… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 11:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, has invested in the startup Creditas, a leading Brazilian secured lending platform. Creditas is Santander InnoVentures, Santander’s USD 200 million corporate VC fund, first investment in Brazil and second in Latin America. Creditas increased of… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 11:19 am By Erin Hobey  |  

CAN Capital, a tech-driven small business specialty finance company, has hired Tom Davidson as its new Chief Financial Officer. Davidson brings 25 years of financial services experience to the company, including deep expertise in capital markets, securitization, treasury, investor relations and risk management. “I couldn’t be more… Read More

April 17, 2018 @ 11:05 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Chaineum, a crypto-finance engineering consulting company and reportedly the first French boutique specialized in raising funds through ICOs, has completed an ICO operation carried out for Naviaddress, a platform for digital addressing of locations and objects. Through its ICO, Naviaddress sold a total of 338… Read More

April 16, 2018 @ 4:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine, a full stack crowdfunding platform listing Reg CF, Reg D and Reg A+ offerings, has reported that Reg CF or “Regulation Crowdfunding” has now topped $100 million of successful funding (as of March 31st that number stood at $102.1M). There was an earlier report… Read More

April 16, 2018 @ 11:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Upper Hand, a cloud-based sports management software and business services company, announced last week it secured $1.5 million in funding from Park Ten Capital through its Series A Funding round. According to the company, the latest round brings its total funding to $4 million. Upper Hand, which… Read More

April 16, 2018 @ 8:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Dow Jones VentureSource is out with their quarterly report and their numbers indicate a decline in venture capital funding during the first quarter of 2018. According to the report, investment declined by 16% in the number of funds and delivered a 29% drop in capital… Read More

April 15, 2018 @ 2:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has scheduled a roundtable to discuss thinly-traded exchange-listed securities, both equities and exchange-traded products. The roundtable will take place on April 23 at the SEC’s headquarters at 100 F Street, NE in DC. The roundtable is open to the public and… Read More

April 13, 2018 @ 8:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The Crypto Invest Summit, a cryptocurrency and blockchain investment conference, has announced that popular “crypto-trader” Ran Neu-Ner will bring his show live to the forthcoming event scheduled to take place on May 1st and 2nd. The inclusion of the show is nice addition to… Read More

April 12, 2018 @ 11:21 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Coinsource, claiming the world’s largest Bitcoin ATM network title, will expand into the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Coinsource will install 20 machines across the District of Columbia and Maryland after receiving significant demand from Bitcoin users and local merchants. This installation caps follows a successful… Read More

April 12, 2018 @ 10:02 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Investment manager Downing LLP has launched of a new bond on its crowdfunding platform, Downing Crowd, paying 7.6% p.a. interest to investors by lending £10M to projects across the UK’s reserve power market. [clickToTweet tweet=”.@Downingcrowd Reserve Power Bond will enable investment of up to £10M in… Read More

April 12, 2018 @ 4:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Shortly into CryptoChicks Female-Focussed Hackathon and Conference held April 6-8 in Toronto, Neufund CEO Zoe Adamovicz called out the insignificant presence of females at most blockchain conferences she attends. The North American Bitcoin Conference, for example, held January in Miami, featured just 3 out of… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 9:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

On Tuesday, April 10th, 22 European countries signed an declaration vowing to cooperate as partners in the development and deployment of blockchain tech across European jurisdictions. According to the declaration, “Cooperation on a European Blockchain Partnership,” earnest efforts to “reaffirm” Europe’s “leading role” globally in blockchain… Read More

April 11, 2018 @ 11:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

Members of the luxury set fond of cryptocurrencies are now able to purchase, log and transact a number of their favorite items using decentralized digital money and ledgers. Japanese luxury car reseller L’Operaio announced at the the end of March that they’ll accept Bitcoin at… Read More

April 10, 2018 @ 12:32 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Today at Lendit, Lend Core Inc., parent company to NSR Invest and LendingRobot, announced the close of its first external financing round with FinSight Ventures. The investment will help the company expand its investor outreach, accelerate product development and strategic partnerships. [clickToTweet tweet=”Live from @Lendit: @NSRInvest… Read More

April 10, 2018 @ 12:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendIt returned to San Francisco this year as it continues with its annual conference which is one of the largest Fintech focused events in the US. This year’s event is a bit different for several reasons. First of all, more traditional banks showed up in… Read More

April 10, 2018 @ 11:54 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Finitive LLC, a fintech platform providing institutional investors with direct access to alternative lending investments, announced today the launch of its zero-fee platform. Co-founded by Caroline Hayes, Jon Barlow, Christopher Johnson, Raman Kannan and George Kaouris in August 2017, Finitive has reportedly received commitments for transactions with an aggregate capacity… Read More

April 9, 2018 @ 2:44 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

CapitalRise.com, the online property finance marketplace, has successfully closed Farrier’s Way, its fastest investment raise to date, with two-thirds of investors using the ISA to benefit from tax free returns. The investment proved incredibly popular and the full amount of £1.4 million was funded by… Read More

April 9, 2018 @ 2:35 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

While some fintechers have announced that brick and mortar banks are dead, others are emulating key features of traditional banks. Fintech behemoth PayPal is reportedly rolling out its new innovations that harken back to mainstream brick and mortar banks. According to wsj.com, PayPal has been… Read More