Global

December 7, 2019 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Online banking app provider Monese is now offering joint accounts to clients in the UK and the European Economic Area. Customers that need a shared account to manage their finances will have the option to open new accounts with friends, their partners, and roommates and… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 12:57 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Council of the European Union, which implements laws for the EU region, has issued a statement on “stablecoin” cryptocurrencies indicating that, “no global ‘stablecoin’…should begin operation in the European Union until the legal, regulatory and oversight challenges and risks have been adequately identified and… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

The “Loi Pacte” was approved by the French government earlier this year. the new law included multiple policy moves designed to improve the overall competitiveness of the French economy. As part of the legislation, France created bespoke rules for initial coin offerings. Under French law,… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IGNIA Partners, LW Investment Management, and several angel investors are backing a Mexican challenger bank, called Fondeadora, via a recent $2.5 million investment. This is Fondeadora’s second investment round in 2019. Earlier this year, the banking challenger secured $1.5 million and has now raised a… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Property investment platform CrowdProperty has topped £20,000,000 in capital returned during 5 years of lending, according to an email from the company. CrowdProperty states that since platform launch, approximately £55 million has been lent which has helped to finance over £130 million of property and… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

October, a European marketplace lending platform for SMEs has signed the United Nation’s “Principles for Responsible Investing.” October claims to be one of the first online lenders to agree to the “UN PRI.” The UN PRI defines responsible investment as a “strategy and practice to… Read More

December 7, 2019 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australians are supporting a new technology that tracks energy use. The project has reportedly raised around half a million dollars in just days after its equity crowdfunding campaign was launched. Ecocentric, a digital transformation company, has acquired more than A$3.6 million from nearly 180 different… Read More

December 6, 2019 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday in a blog post, Landbay founder and CEO John Goodall announced that his property crowdfunding platform will no longer serve as a peer to peer lender as institutional money has taken over. Landbay said that a UK bank will now handle the current retail… Read More

December 6, 2019 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s OakNorth Bank, which is run by OakNorth, has finalized a deal worth £8 million (appr. $10.5 million) to finance a share repurchase for shareholders of Security Plus, Europe’s leading independent volume cash carrier. Established in 1977, Security Plus currently manages around 3,500 live contracts…. Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 6:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Banque of France will begin testing a Central Bank Digital Currency (or CBDC) in 2020, according to a report in Les Echos – the leading business publication of France. Quoting François Villeroy de Galhau, the Governor of the Banque of France, who was speaking… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a Berlin-based investment platform, has successfully closed the offering of e-mobility company, Greyp Bikes raising €1.4 million. Greyp, an eBike creator and a spinoff from Rimac Automobili, launched the security token offering in September. Greyp claims to be the “future of mobility” and the… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A real estate business that received the backing of Property Innovation (Pi) Labs, a leading Proptech VC, is raising equity capital through crowdfunding. Track, which serves as a property and fund manager for homeowners, is raising £250,000 (appr. $328,000) on Seedrs for 11% of company… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

New peer to peer lending rules come into effect on Monday, December 9th. The new rules were the result of a review by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The UK largely created the entire sector of peer to peer lending. One of the most… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 7:23 am By Cali Haan  |  

Huobi, one of a few cryptocurrency and online lending businesses in China to have survived a recent “rectification” spree, will be hosting an International Cooperation Forum on Digital Economy and Blockchain on the island of Hainan December 5th and 6th. The “state-sanctioned event,” says Huobi,… Read More

December 5, 2019 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investments in the Insurtech industry have been increasing rapidly. They’ve grown from around $140 million in 2011 to about $4.9 billion as of 2018. QBE North America, an integrated specialist insurer that’s part of QBE Insurance Group Ltd, one of the world’s largest insurance providers,… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 8:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Banking partner for SMEs” Kapilendo is issuing its first blockchain-based digital bond. According to the Germany based crowdfunding platform, FR L’Osteria SE, a “gastronomy concept” is issuing a tokenized bond using blockchain tech. Kapilendo is a debt-based crowdfunding platform that caters to Mittelstand companies by… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 7:47 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The former president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told an audience at Caixin’s conference in Beijing last month that he doesn’t think cryptocurrencies should replace standard ones, South China Morning Post reports. “I have great doubts of keeping control of monetary value in… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

We all know the story of Elizabeth Holmes and the demise of Theranos, a company that claimed to have created a device that could provide fast and efficient blood tests. Theranos ended being a company based on hubris, imagination, and vapor. It eventually collapsed being… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fronted, a new company that plans to make renting easier for people, is preparing to launch in 2020 with a Fintech product that has been designed to help renters finance their deposits. The company, called Fronted, has been established by Jamie Campbell, former commercial… Read More

December 4, 2019 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

A group of former Morgan Stanley executives is launching a crypto derivatives exchange in a move to rival the CME. Phemex, a trading platform that claims to be able to manage 300,000 TPS, is said to be on par with the technical capabilities of the… Read More