General News

February 11, 2015 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

JetPay Payment Services, a division of JetPay Corporation (“JetPay” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: “JTPY”), a provider of debit and credit card processing, payroll, HR and prepaid card services, today announced that it helped WePay to successfully launch its Canadian Operations. WePay provides integrated payment services… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 12:15 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

New Zealand’s first peer to peer (P2P) lending platform Harmoney today announces the appointment of three senior executives to support the company’s growth objectives. Launched in September 2014, Harmoney is enjoying strong response from customers on both sides of the lending transaction, and attracting interest from… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 9:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kinetix Trading Solutions, Inc., a leading technology solutions provider for the capital markets, announced today that Paul Puskuldjian has joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer.  The Princeton, NJ based firm has expanded its product set and offerings in the past year and will… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 9:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Azimo, the online money transfer service, has announced that customers can now send money to Thailand, direct to a personal or business bank account. “Great weather and the cost of living being 40% less than in Western Europe makes Thailand a popular destination for Europeans… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

investUP (known as UP), the crowdfunding supermarket, launches its platform at Finovate Europe. UP brings the P2B (P2P and equity coming soon) crowdfunding market together in one place, enabling users to invest via one centralised portfolio. It allows investors to search for deals from all their… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 7:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  David Haber is the co-founder, CEO and visionary behind Bond Street, an online lender that empowers small businesses by providing financing in a simple, transparent and fair way. Haber leads Bond Street’s overall company vision, strategy, fundraising and business development functions. Through Bond Street, Haber aims to… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On January 27, 2015, ZURU filed a complaint with the U.S District Court in New Jersey against Telebrands Corp. – Provisional Case No. 2:33-av-0001 – for Intellectual Property Infringement of Tinnus Enterprises‘ Bunch O Balloons. ZURU’s complaint is based on the contention that Telebrands Corp. is infringing Bunch O… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 3:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Orchard Platform, an analytics and investment platform focused on the global marketplace lending market, has announced a partnership with Mainspring Funding, a leading provider of aggregation and sales of small business loans. Through this partnership, institutional investors using Orchard will have access to loan portfolios… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 12:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

  The latest peer-to-peer lender to set up shop in the Australian market, ThinCats Australia has introduced something different to the model by using finance brokers as intermediaries. ThinCats Australia is a joint venture between local investors and ThinCats UK, which was established in 2011 and to… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 12:22 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Upper Street, the luxury made-to-order shoe firm,  has already secured over £46,750 of its £200,000 fundraising goal round on Seedrs for the 6.6% equity offered. Valued at £2,822,490, the London-based shoes label founded five years ago by Katy Chandler and Julia Elliott Brown aims to  revolutionize the way women shop for shoes… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 12:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week and a half until her band’s Kickstarter campaign comes to an end, TLC songstress Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas chats with AJC about the all-girl group’s crowdfunding success and their upcoming album. The TLC ladies, Chilli and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, took the crowdfunding giant… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 11:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

CircleUp announced a new partnership with the leading online financial advisor, Personal Capital. Members can track their CircleUp investments in the Personal Capital app, across both desktop and mobile devices. The integration aims to allow investors to centralize their public and private market investments for the… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:57 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has released the Guidelines on Regulation of Markets under Section 34 of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 to introduce new requirements for the registration of equity crowdfunding (ECF) platforms and provide governance arrangement for the operator of such platforms…. Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gulf Wealth Management (GWM) is offering the UK public the chance to become founder shareholders in the first digital wealth management e-commerce platform focused on the investment needs of the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC*) namely Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. GWM launched a… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New Matter, a leader in consumer 3D printing, announced today the close of its Series A Funding round of $6.5M. Alsop Louie Partners led the round, with other notable investors including Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures, the investment arm… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, North Carolina Commerce Secretary, John Skvarla, revealed that crowdfunding could be the answer to small businesses in the state. According to the Triangle Business Journal, legislators filled a bill last month that would allow non-accredited investors to fund up to $2,000 into private ventures. The… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fans of Rob Zombie, rejoice! Devoted followers of the musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer may now continue to help fund his highly anticipated feature length film, 31 and receive pre-sale tickets to his upcoming summer tour. According to Icon vs Icon, Zombie will be embarking on a new nationwide… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, the industry’s only end-to-end lending solution built natively on Salesforce.com, today announced its new customer LendingPoint, a non-bank direct lender that aims to meet consumer demands for online borrowing options. LendingPoint has successfully used Cloud Lending as a foundation to go from concept… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 7:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday (February 10th), Kreative Krowd, a crowdsourcing marketplace, officially launched its services for all creative freelancers. Whether its University or college students from creative departments looking for a part-time job opportunity or building their work experience portfolio to professional freelancers or anyone with a… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 6:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Georgia Quinn, a securities attorney specializing in the crowdfunding field, has joined the firm of Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole.  Quinn, a Senior Contributor to Crowdfund Insider, has been a champion of new forms of finance and widely recognized for her support of the emerging crowdfunding sector… Read More