General News

January 12, 2017 @ 4:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AllBright announced on Thursday its online funding platform is now live. The portal revealed all funding would go towards female-led companies throughout the UK.  AllBright also debuted three campaigns for Catherine Gazzoli at Piccolo, Caroline Plumb at Fluidly, and Romanie Thomas at Juggle Jobs. Along with the… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, reporting and analytics platform dv01 announced it is collaborating with Experian to bring transparency to marketplace lending. The companies stated that the collaboration would provide dv01 clients with access to richer borrower credit attributes while they conduct performance analysis using dv01’s online tools. Perry Rahbar,… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 1:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Marketplace Lending Association (MLA) has announced the addition of 11 new members. Joining founding members Lending Club, Prosper and Funding Circle are the following lending platforms: Affirm Upstart CommonBond Avant PeerStreet Marlette Funding Sharestates Able StreetShares New Associate Members include dv01 and LendIt The MLA… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

FundedByMe Malaysia announced on Thursday it is kicking off 2017 with the P2P forum entitled “Let’s Talk about P2P Financing” that will gather nine Malaysian registered market operators from the equity crowdfunding and P2P financing space under one roof this coming January 19th at The… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The Economist has embarked on a series of events tackling the disruption occurring in finance today. Their forthcoming event in London on January 25th is ominously entitled Finance Disrupted: Collaborate or Die (Crowdfund Insider is a media partner for this event).  Corporate death for well… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 10:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fineqia International Inc. (CSE: FNQ) (OTCPink: FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA) announced on Thursday its CEO, Bundeep Singh Rangar, is set to join the NCFA’s Advisory Board as an advisor of global debt markets. According to Fineqia, Rangar has over 20 years’ combined experience in finance, banking, consultancy,… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 8:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Japanese e-commerce conglomerate and fintech investor Rakuten has cemented its interest in growing its European commercial banking operation from its Luxembourg headquarters. Initially focusing on providing payment, deposit and loan services for merchants on the PriceMinister e-commerce platform in France, Rakuten Europe Bank plans to expand… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 7:48 am By Erin Hobey  |  

LendingCrowd, a UK alternative finance lender to the SME market, is readying to launch an Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) during Q1 of 2017, said to be one of the first launched in the UK alternative finance sector. The launch follows a record year for LendingCrowd during which it… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 7:22 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Loan approval rates at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) and institutional lenders finished the year strong, improving to post-recession highs in December 2016, according to the most recent Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index™, the monthly analysis of more than 1,000 small business loan applications on… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 7:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

CSI Kick Start, Inc., a Florida-based Fintech startup incubator founded by global payments innovator CSI globalVCard, today announced that its second annual application process for FinTech startup funding is now open. Aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to radically transform key areas of B2B payments including virtual cards,… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 6:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

University of Kentucky students, student organizations, faculty and staff may now raise funds for innovative UK programs and initiatives through a new, convenient, university-wide crowdfunding platform — Big Blue Crowdfunding. Planned to go live this week, the crowdfunding service was developed by UK Philanthropy, in partnership… Read More

January 11, 2017 @ 9:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

  4thWay, a P2P ranking site, has published a report on the UK peer to peer lending market.  According to their numbers, delivered another “record year”, with a total of £3.02 billion facilitated via 35 various platforms in the UK. The totals are as follows: Consumer loans… Read More

January 11, 2017 @ 10:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Innovate Finance, an independent membership association that represents the UK’s global fintech community, announced on Wednesday it welcomed a delegation of leading voices from the digital finance community of Belgium led by the Minister of Finance Johan Van Overtveldt in London for the launch of… Read More

January 11, 2017 @ 8:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, global crowdfunding platform GoFundMe announced it has officially acquired CrowdRise, an online fundraising platform for charities and non-profits. According to GoFundMe, CrowdRise will now focus on fundraising for charity and fundraising for individuals will be directed to GoFundMe. The funding portal also noted that… Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 2:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with IBM to launch its blockchain-based asset custody system. As part of its work, the bank has also successfully executed more than 100 real business transactions on the blockchain since the system… Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 12:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, crowdfunding platform for games Fig announced it hosted four of the top ten most crowdfunded video games of 2016. The funding portal stated that the four titles accounted for nearly two-thirds of the total amount of the ten games. Sharing more details about… Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Addepar announced on Tuesday it formed a partnership with Morgan Stanley to deliver its investment management platform to Morgan Stanley’s private wealth management teams.  Morgan Stanley private wealth management teams will reportedly use Addepar’s data aggregation, performance reporting and client portal to do sophisticated analysis and… Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 10:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications, announced on Tuesday the launch of the FactSet Global FinTech Index, which has been licensed to Nikko Asset Management as the benchmark for the Global Fintech Equity Fund. The company stated that its Global FinTech… Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 8:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mark your calendars, log on and learn! LendIt, the world’s largest lending and fintech conference, is hosting two free webinars on January 11 and 18. LendIt Forums offer a series of free, intensive (and interactive) learning events for Asset Managers, Real Estate Investors, Financial Advisors, Commercial Bankers, Lending Innovators, Venture Capitalists and the Media…. Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 7:20 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Clínica Dialibre, the first clinic in Spain to specialize in diabetes for children, opened in March 2016 with the mission of setting a milestone in the treatment of diabetes and improving the young patients’ quality of life by personalizing the treatment for each patient. The Clinica… Read More