General News

October 31, 2017 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Beauhurst has just released their Q3 Deal report and according to their numbers, equity investing in UK non-listed firms is on the rise. This is in contrast to a slowdown seen in the number of deals during 2016. According to the report, there were 397… Read More

October 30, 2017 @ 11:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, online lender Zopa announced it was shutting down its Zopa Access and Zopa Classic on December 1st. The company announced that it was retiring the products earlier this year.   “On 1st December, we’re retiring Zopa Access and Zopa Classic – that’s just over… Read More

October 29, 2017 @ 8:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

FinTech Australia, the national association for Australia’s Fintech industry, has just released a new member ecosystem map designed to visually depict the extraordinary growth in Australia’s Fintech industry in just four months. This week Australia’s inaugural Fintech festival Intersekt kicks off so the timing is important. … Read More

October 27, 2017 @ 12:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AllBright is making plans to a private member’s club exclusively for female founders in London. The club’s debut comes less than a year after AllBright’s crowdfunding platform was launched.  According to WeAreTheCity, AllBright’s new club will be based in a five-story Georgian Townhouse in Bloomsbury. All club… Read More

October 27, 2017 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Karen Kerrigan, the CEO and President of the Small Business Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) has received a “Crowdfundie Award” at the 6th Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention (GCC) held in Las Vegas this week. Kerrigan attended GCC speaking on the topic of taking equity crowdfunding to… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 12:07 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

NaPoleon Crypto has reached an agreement with Chaineum, reportedly the first fully regulatory compliant French ICO boutique for conducting ICOs. The NaPoleonX platform will allow the selling of crypto investment vehicles (DAF – Decentralized Autonomous Funds) managed by algorithmic trading models and will regularly propose… Read More

October 25, 2017 @ 9:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few months after Starling Bank announced it is offering Apple Pay to UK customers, the challenger bank revealed this week is now offering Fitbit Pay to its UK customers as well. Fitbit’s payment process now allows customers to pay through the company’s wearable, Fitbit… Read More

October 24, 2017 @ 1:02 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Token Report, a large, transparent database of ICO verified information, today released data on the number of cryptocurrencies actively in use. Of the 226 ICOs in Token Report’s database that have completed, 20 of those tokens, or just under 1 in 10, are actively in use, excluding… Read More

October 23, 2017 @ 2:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, organizers of the third annual Crowd Invest Summit West announced the Summit is set to take place on May 1st through the 2nd at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The summit will feature an agenda of events that are equity crowdfunding themes including investment… Read More

October 22, 2017 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) has launched a new database that incorporates all Reg CF portals and offerings. Called CCLEAR, the service is described as enabling entrepreneurs, investors, policy-makers,  and educators to easily analyze all Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) offering data since the launch of the industry… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 12:01 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Fifteen filmmakers advanced today to the finals of Seed&Spark’s Hometown Heroes Crowdfunding Rally, moving on to pitch their local feature film to Mark and Jay Duplass, who will executive produce up to five of the movies as well as provide up to $25,000 in no-interest… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 11:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, and Al Ansari Exchange, a leading foreign exchange and worldwide money transfer company in the UAE, have established a new partnership to promote and support the growth of FinTech industry in Abu Dhabi… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 10:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

PayKey, a fintech startup which aims to bridge the gap between banking and social, officially closed a $10 million Series B funding round, led by MizMaa, and joined by SBI Group, Digital Ventures – the fintech subsidiary of Siam Commercial Bank, SixThirty, Fintech71, The FinLab,… Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 3:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco-based Seed announced on Wednesday the launch of its new full-service digital bank alternative that is designed specifically for small businesses. While sharing details about the services, Brian Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO of Seed, stated: “Traditional banks have struggled to take care of their small… Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

The annual Securities and Exchange Commission’s Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation has been scheduled for November 30th.  In a shift from years past where the Forum was held in the SEC’s headquarters in Washington, DC, the event will take place in Austin, Texas…. Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Dr. Leonid Kogan, Chair of the Finance Department at MIT Sloan School of Management, has joined deep data company 55 Institutional Partners as Chief Investment Scientist. 55 Institutional Partners is an “investment science firm” that helps enterprise customers implement tax optimized enhanced portfolios. Kogan’s research covers theoretical and empirical… Read More

October 17, 2017 @ 3:12 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Tifosy, reportedly the world’s first and only fully licensed sports crowdfunding business, has successfully raised £1m equity through its own platform. Co-founded by former player and manager Gianluca Vialli and former investment banker Fausto Zanetton, Tifosy is spearheading a sports finance revolution by allowing supporters to… Read More

October 17, 2017 @ 12:29 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Several leading Spanish banking, energy and telecommunications companies have established Alastria, a new regulated national network based on blockchain. The non-profit consortium was presented simultaneously in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia and Malaga with the aim to develop the Distributed Ledger Technology (DTL),… Read More

October 17, 2017 @ 11:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

BitClave, a blockchain startup developing a decentralized search ecosystem, shared that it has completed a successful private and public pre-sale token event raising almost $15 million and receiving commitments for another $24 million. BitClave is also excited to announce the start date for the highly… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 10:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Today, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, announced the appointment of James Shipton as the new Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).  A Goldman Sachs veteran, Shipton is currently leading a research center at Harvard Law School where he… Read More