General News

December 21, 2014 @ 4:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

The debate surrounding the definition of an Accredited Investor always includes a discussion regarding the number of individuals in the United States who actually qualify.  Recently Rachita Gullapalli, a financial analyst at the Division of Economic & Risk Analysis (DERA) at the SEC, put together… Read More

December 21, 2014 @ 9:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Pensco, one of the largest self-directed IRA Custodians with over $10 billion in assets under custody (AUC), recently shared a statement from CEO Kelly Rodriques.  He states that only history will be the judge if 2014 will be “The” year of alternative assets but regardless,… Read More

December 21, 2014 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The embedded audio below is from a periodic segment produced by the Economist as part of their “Money Talks” series.  This specific session recorded earlier this month touches on China and the booming stock market,  Peer to Peer Lending Market and the rise in dollar denominated debt. The… Read More

December 20, 2014 @ 3:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The presentation below was created by SEC Senior Financial Economist Vladimir Ivanov and incorporates data on the private placement securities market through 2013.  While there are other available reports the research provided by Ivanov is probably the best.  Prior to his first review in 2012… Read More

December 20, 2014 @ 2:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

It is that time of year for predictions.  Usually they are good read and of course no one remembers them 12 months later unless you happen to get one right and then you remind everyone. Regardless, we love them as do the readers.  So this… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 3:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from her successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, co-creators of StyleLikeU and the web series I Am What’s Underneath, Lily Mandelbaum sat down with BUST to share details about the project and today’s body image issues. As previously reported by CrowdfundInsider, I Am What’s… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has launched their online Electronic Filing Depository (EFD) directed towards the regulatory filing process for certain exempt securities offerings. Developed by NASAA, EFD is an online system that allows an issuer to submit a Form D for a Regulation… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 10:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RCS Capital Corporation (“RCS Capital”), in light of recent market developments, issued the following statement: CEO of RCS Capital, Michael Weil stated,”The fundamentals driving the success of our business remain strong and unchanged.  Our confidence in the long-term prospects for the company is resolute. There… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With 3721 backers for a total of $275,420 collected on crowdfunding platform Tilt, the functional and elegant Vesper vibrator necklace becomes the most successful (having shipped to all its backers) sex toy project on a crowdfunded pre-order platform. As CoolHunting raved, “Wearable tech has never been… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 9:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stephen Amell, star of The CW hit series Arrow, recently partnered with Represent, a rapidly growing platform for creating and selling custom merchandise, to generate $947,380 in sales in support of the F&ck Cancer charity. The campaign initially lasted three weeks and sold 21,351 shirts, but… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 9:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The University of Cambridge teamed up with EY, the global professional services organization, and launched the European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey with the support of major European industry associations in November. As readers may know, this is the largest study to date on crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and other forms of… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. founded by JumpStarter Inc., announced today the crossing of several milestones, bringing the company closer to the goal of creating a working high-speed mass transit system.  Elon Musk shook the world of mass transportation when he unveiled his concept for a… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 7:39 am By JD Alois  |  

  The highly respected innovation charity Nesta, has published its annual list of predictions for 2015.  We all know that predictions are easily given and quickly forgotten.  More fun than fact that hopefully gives a good read while providing some perspective.  This year the soothsayers… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 6:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

One Spark was named one of the top 300 festivals to attend in the world by Fest300 Magazine this month according to an announcement by event officials. Apparently Fest300 crowdsourced the final 30 festivals on their list, and, thanks to supporter’s votes, was voted 21 out of… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Retake, the new gay indie film starring Luke Pasqualino (UK’s Skins, The Borgias) as a male prostitute has been given the greenlight.  Nick Corporon, director of the LGBT festival favorite short film Barbie Boy is directing from his own screenplay, with a story by Corporon, Gareth Dutton, Collin Brazie,… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 4:10 pm By Dara Albright  |  

Inspired by Orchard Platform’s recently released “Lendscape” – which brilliantly underscores the expanding peer/marketplace lending ecosystem and its movement of capital – I decided to construct a similar flowchart depicting the progression of the equity side of the crowdfinance industry. The “Equitysphere” below encapsulates the… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 3:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With 2015 just around corner, RateSetter announced on Thursday (December 18th) that it has taken on the loan book of GraduRates, a fellow peer-to-peer (P2P) lender which helps students finance their education, funding loans for postgraduate study. GraduRates, which launched in 2010, has decided to… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Litigation funder Bentham IMF is ending 2014 on a strong note in the U.S., with robust dispute recoveries, a set of freshly completed cases and the addition of an experienced new member to its U.S. investment management team. The firm’s calendar-year performance for dispute funding in the… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BlockTrust, a trust system that bridges angel investment and development, has launched a new crowdfunding platform that brings blockchain related projects and their investors together in a mutually beneficial manner. Projects are certified by a team of capable individuals who verify developer identity, review the source code,… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN), an advocacy group based in Brussels, has published their annual report reviewing crowdfunding regulations in Europe, the United States, Israel and Canada. “Since we have started our work in 2012 and especially since our first edition of this paper in… Read More