General News

July 18, 2014 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

In contrast to a negative outflow during the previous period, net lending to UK businesses took a positive tack this past May.  The annual rate of growth in the stock of lending to SME’s and large businesses remained negative though.  This is from the Bank… Read More

July 18, 2014 @ 7:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

North Carolina residents might be the next state to enjoy retail equity crowdfunding, thanks to a new bill that was cleared by the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday (July 16th). According to the News Observer, the bill, H.B. 680, which last year was passed by the… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 2:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter is ready for the first showing of the 2014 Film Festival in Brooklyn! The crowdfunding giant shared some details about the event, which will take place this Friday (July 18th). The festival features a selection from the platform’s favorite films, shorts, web series, animations,… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 7:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdnetic, a provider of technology and market data solutions to the crowdfunded securities and peer to peer lending industry, has released their second quarterly PIPR (Private Issuers Publicly Raising) data analysis report for the period ending June 30, 2014, including a focus on the crowdfunding real estate… Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 2:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Biospain 2014 is currently seeking and selecting projects for presentation as part of its Investment Forum, one of the most high profile in the sector, for which 25 investment funds, 70% of which are international, have already confirmed their attendance, a figure the organizers expect… Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfundingroadmap Events has announced further details about their upcoming ”3rd Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention & Bootcamp ” (GCCB). The gathering seeks to deliver the most educational event the industry will see this year. The crowdfunding industry is booming. Industry experts estimate that crowdfunding will add… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 5:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Founder and editor of Feminist Times, Charlotte Raven, announced on Monday (July 14) that the UK-based online publication would be closing its doors at the end of this week. This announcement comes just after its crowdfunding efforts fell short. Raven wrote in the website’s blog;… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Capital Companies, LLC has formed a strategic partnership with the Kingdom Trust Company to facilitate investments by IRA owners in alternative strategies offered by The Capital Companies.  Kingdom Trust announced this past May they were working with BancBox to streamline investment crowdfunding, including peer-to-peer… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 2:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Scott Jordan, Founder of HealthiosXchange (“H/X”), the equity-based crowdfunding portal of Healthios, has published a White Paper—“Self-Directed IRAs, Meet Crowdfunding!”— which explores how self-directed IRA investors may use equity crowdfunding to achieve attractive returns in private equity. Jordan noted, “Equity crowdfunding, also called ‘portals’, which leverages the… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently Crowdnetic introduced Lendvious, a platform for the peer to peer lending marketplace focused on both borrowers and investors. Crowdnetic has now unveiled a new subscription option alongside an upgraded investor feature. The new enhanced subscription options include: • Lendvious: Access all Lendvious tools, including… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 6:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity University, the education arm of Equity Trust Company, has announced that television personality and self-directed investor Kendra Todd will be the keynote speaker at the 2014 Equity University Wealth Building Summit, to take place September in Orlando, Florida. Todd, a top-performing real estate agent and… Read More

July 13, 2014 @ 10:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding is taking off in Asia.  Depending on the country and the legal environment, rewards based and investment based crowdfunding is moving forward as the new approach to capital formation.  While the United States has been a leader in rewards based crowdfunding, Europe and Australia… Read More

July 12, 2014 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding portal SeedInvest has been at the forefront of championing the cause of investors and small business by battling the forces that want to deny many the opportunity to participate in certain offerings deemed only available for “accredited investors”.  As the definition stands today… Read More

July 12, 2014 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

As crowdfunding becomes more popular in various countries, recent reports reveal the funding option is gaining attention in the Middle East. According to the Huffington Post, a handful of Lebanese entrepreneurs are using crowdfunding to create and sustain social initiative throughout the country, some of which… Read More

July 11, 2014 @ 11:45 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission hosted a meeting of the Investor Advisory Committee yesterday where they tackled the very important issue of defining an “accredited investor”.  Barbara Roper, the Chairman of the ‘Investor as a Purchaser Subcommittee’ closed the meeting without recommendations on altering the… Read More

July 11, 2014 @ 8:26 am By JD Alois  |  

University to Train Corporate Leaders to become Crowd Empowered. The University of California at Berkeley will be hosting the first executive program solely dedicated to training major corporations on the benefits of crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and crowd intelligence as a way to strengthen their brand and… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 9:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

The team at LendingRobot have sent over a cool infographic about Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending.  LendingRobot is a cloud-based financial service and registered investment advisor providing tools for individual investors to automate peer investing on Lending Club and Prosper. As we all know by now P2P… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Destroying Net Neutrality has implications far beyond Kickstarter. Yancey Strickler, CEO of crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, has posted today affirming their support on the subject of Net Neutrality – something that should concern us all. Kickstarter has filed an official comment with the FCC expressing their… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

On the day when the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee is scheduled to discuss the definition of an “Accredited Investor”, SeedInvest – one of the leading equity crowdfunding portals in the United States- has posted a comment letter to the SEC stating their research indicates, “an… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 6:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) is set to convene tomorrow, July 10th, at the SEC headquarters in Washington, DC.  On the committees’s agenda is the important topic of the definition of an “accredited investor”. Recently Crowdfund Insider published an article by… Read More