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February 25, 2019 @ 5:57 pm By Therese Torris  |  

Recently, the French Crowdfunding Association (Financement Participatif France or FPF) published their annual crowdfunding barometer. The report indicated that alternative finance continues to grow in France but when you separate equity crowdfunding, this segment indicates a decline. Crowdfund Insider published an article on the FPF… Read More

February 25, 2019 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Banco BTG Pactual, an investment bank based in Sao Paolo, Brazil, is going crypto. More specifically, the bank is issuing a security token based on real estate assets. BTG Pactual is no small operation. In fact, total assets are pegged at over R$270 billion (USD $70+… Read More

February 25, 2019 @ 7:16 am By JD Alois  |  

UK Finance has launched a national campaign encouraging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to prepare for the potential changes as Brexit nears. Entitled “Let’s Talk Business,” the campaign is being supported by various organisations including the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), British Chambers of Commerce… Read More

February 24, 2019 @ 6:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the past week, Crowdcube has issued a request to change the Nominee terms for Monzo, a digital-only challenger bank that has gained Unicorn status. Monzo has crowdfunded several times on Crowdcube. The most recent crowdfunding round saw the Fintech raise £2 million in just two… Read More

February 24, 2019 @ 12:22 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Emaar Properties, the company that developed the United Arab Emirati’s (UAE’s) iconic Burj Khalifa tower, the tallest in the world, has denied rumours that it plans to accept cryptocurrency payments in real estate deals. According to a company spokesperson speaking to Bloomberg: “Emaar does not… Read More

February 24, 2019 @ 10:20 am By Cali Haan  |  

Alexander Vinnik, a Russian citizen accused of laundering billions while allegedly running the BTC-e Bitcoin exchange in London, has ended his 80-day hunger strike, Urdu Point reports. Vinnik was detained in the summer of 2017 after being arrested while vacationing in Greece with his family…. Read More

February 23, 2019 @ 6:46 pm By Xu Gao  |  

LipPass: a New Type of User Authentication for Mobile Phones Sometimes, people might use fingerprint film or avoice recording, as shown in some movies, to bypass fingerprint or a voiceprint authentication checks on the phone. However, such tricks may not always succeed in the future…. Read More

February 23, 2019 @ 6:02 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The FBI is seeking information from “potential victims” of Bitconnect, a cryptocurrency Ponzi that bilked investors across the globe out of billions of dollars. People with information they wish to submit to the FBI can do so via a special online form set up by… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 5:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

ClearBank, a challenger clearing bank (the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years), has been awarded a grant from the RBS Alternative Remedies Package of £60 million. The grant is one of three from Pool A of the Capability and Innovation Fund that forms… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 4:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently, it was announced that Fincross International will be the lead sponsor for the upcoming Security Token Summit taking place in LA this spring – as well as CIS. A relatively new company, Fincross is described as “a next-generation digital investment bank.” The digital investment bank… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 12:09 pm By Cali Haan  |  

UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, was fined 4.5 billion Euros ($5.1 billion USD) Wednesday for “aggravated money-laundering of the proceeds of tax fraud” as well as “illegal bank soliciting” for its alleged role in helping wealthy French citizens avoid taxes, Associated Press reports. Five former UBS… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Sweden based FundedByMe has received approval to list its shares on the Nordic Growth Market (NGM), a regulated exchange that operates in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway. NGM is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart. Shares in FundedByMe will commence trading on Friday, March 8, 2019 under… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 8:10 am By Cali Haan  |  

UK auction house Wilson’s Auctions will be selling 215 Bitcoins, Bitcoin Gold “coins” and Bitcoin Cash “coins” in a 24-hour Timed Online Auction starting February 28th. According to the firm, the coins (104.99 of each), “were seized by the Belgium police as a result of a… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 7:50 am By Cali Haan  |  

In January, a private heart clinic located in a Melbourne’s Cabrini hospital had 15 000 patients’ medical records locked in a ransomware attack that emanated from Russia or North Korea, 9News reports. A cryptocurrency ransom to unlock the data was subsequently demanded. The records were… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 7:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

Close on the heels of Danske Bank being ordered out of Estonia this week for its alleged role in laundering funds totaling $234 billion USD for Ukrainian, Azerbaijani and Russian clients, Danske Bank has now announced it will be, “clos(ing) down its banking activities in… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 6:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding has been legal in Canada for some time now but in Canada, securities are managed and regulated at the provincial level thus creating a bit of a regulatory mishmash which proves difficult and costly to firms. Issuers must be certain to manage any provincial… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 2:23 pm By Cali Haan  |  

CryptoSolarTech, a Spanish cryptocurrency mining company that raised $68 million USD (60 million euros) in an ICO fundraise last spring has sent a letter to investors announcing that the company will cease operations and return the money collected in the ICO, Cointelegraph reports. A copy… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 10:21 am By Therese Torris  |  

Launched last quarter, Anaxago Capital, the asset management sister of French equity crowdfunding platform Anaxago, announces its first investment fund. FCPR ANAXAGO SOCIETY ONE is a real estate development fund dedicate to funding construction and renovation projects. Anaxago Capital aims to raise €30 million to… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 8:43 am By Cali Haan  |  

Blockchain, an early Bitcoin wallet startup that has lately expanded its services to include institutional crypto trading services, has announced it is “thrilled” to be opening a fifth location in Vilnius, Lithuania. Blockchain says that after considering “several options,” Vilnius was selected for its, “vibrant… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 8:17 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Machine learning, algorithms, early cancer detection, successful intervention? 20/20 GeneSystems, a digital diagnostics company with the core mission of reducing cancer mortality in the U.S. and around the world through early detection, sells what it believes to be the first multi-cancer blood test powered by real-world… Read More