Global

October 30, 2017 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Enerwhere, the “world’s first” distributed solar utility company, has become the region’s largest equity crowdfunding round. Listed on Eureeca, Enerwhere has already seen almost $700,000 committed. Eureeca is the first multi-regulated global Equity Crowdfunding platform based in MENA. Chris Thomas, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Eureeca, commented; “The… Read More

October 30, 2017 @ 8:19 am By JD Alois  |  

The inaugural FinTech Abu Dhabi conference ended with several key initiatives designed to boost the Fintech sector in the region. The two-day event, which was held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive… Read More

October 29, 2017 @ 9:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

McKinsey recently published a report on the global banking industry. While stating the financial recovery has helped old finance regain their footing the future is not quite so clear. According to the authors; “New digital entrants are also having an impact on bank performance, particularly… Read More

October 29, 2017 @ 8:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

FinTech Australia, the national association for Australia’s Fintech industry, has just released a new member ecosystem map designed to visually depict the extraordinary growth in Australia’s Fintech industry in just four months. This week Australia’s inaugural Fintech festival Intersekt kicks off so the timing is important. … Read More

October 29, 2017 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

BrewDog and its Equity for Punks crowdfunding project is at it once again. The Scottish craft brewer is returning to the UK with a securities offer following the end of its US Reg A+ crowdfunding round. To date, BrewDog has raised around £41 million in… Read More

October 29, 2017 @ 4:17 pm By Ido Lustig  |  

What is a world-class risk team and how do you build one? I’m often asked that question as Chief Risk Officer of BlueVine. Like other Fintech lenders, we are intensely focused on risk. Building a world-class risk team has been and will always be a… Read More

October 28, 2017 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

A group of European industry advocates have published a proposition for a “Self Regulation Charter for European ICOs”.  According to the web site, organizers believe that Europe is in need of a manifesto governing Initial Coin Offerings or Initial Token Offerings (ITO) (however you want… Read More

October 28, 2017 @ 10:45 am By Xu Gao  |  

51 CreditCard (u51.com) is Planning to List in Hong Kong in 2018 51 CreditCard (u51.com), a leading online platform for credit card bill management, is reported to be listed on Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) in 2018, aiming to raise at least 500… Read More

October 27, 2017 @ 4:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Cybercrime as a Service” is a Growing Problem In the UK, HM Treasury and the Home Office have published a report on money laundering and terrorist financing. As one of the largest economies in the world that is based on global trade and quite open… Read More

October 27, 2017 @ 1:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech and Alibaba-affiliated Ant Financial revealed this week it is putting its Initial Public Offering (IPO) plans on hold and is now focused on investing in more startups and artificial intelligence (AI). The news of Ant Financial’s plans comes less than a year after… Read More

October 27, 2017 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Deepbridge Capital, a company that provides investment access to small and medium sized UK growth businesses, has shared a wish list regarding the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and measures it would like to see in Chancellor Philip Hammond’s forthcoming… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has added a new Fintech partnership arrangement with a deal signed with the Swiss Financial Markets Authority (FINMA). Both regulators have been impressively open to financial innovation so an agreement to cooperate on disruptive finance simply makes sense…. Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 12:07 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

NaPoleon Crypto has reached an agreement with Chaineum, reportedly the first fully regulatory compliant French ICO boutique for conducting ICOs. The NaPoleonX platform will allow the selling of crypto investment vehicles (DAF – Decentralized Autonomous Funds) managed by algorithmic trading models and will regularly propose… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

The Autorite des Marches Financieres (AMF) in France has launched a consultation on Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) and the issuance of crypto based tokens. In France, according to the document, there have been at least four ICOs to date with multiple other offerings in the… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Uniti, an electric vehicle (EV) that is in the midst of an equity crowdfunding campaign, will begin to manufacture their cars in Landskrona, Sweden. The launch of their new electric car at the new manufacturing facility is scheduled for December 7, 2017. Uniti said it… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global crypto fintech company QUOINE announced on Thursday it has formed a partnership with Canadian fintech startup Blockwave to bring blockchain fintech services to Canada, starting with the launch of a cryptocurrency exchange before the end of this year. The company revealed that it will deploy… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 7:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Quantuma, a corporate recovery and business advisory firm that works with several peer-to-peer lending platforms, has joined the UK Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA). Earlier this year, the P2PFA announced the creation of Associate Members to broaden its membership beyond strict lending platforms. At… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 2:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital only challenger bank Revolut is reporting solid interest in its online banking business. According to the company, 16,0000 business customers have signed up for its service in just 4 months. Revolut estimates this has saved these business over £1 million in fees in aggregate…. Read More

October 25, 2017 @ 11:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

True Leaf Medicine International (CSE: MJ) (FSE: TLA) (OTCQB:TRLFF), a Canadian company is running a testing the waters (TTW) campaign to gauge investor interest in a possible Reg A+ crowdfunding offer seeking a max raise of $10 million. True Leaf says this is the first… Read More

October 25, 2017 @ 3:29 pm By Therese Torris  |  

Two main topics of the 6th Annual Convention of the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) on October 19th and 20th were technology innovation and cross-border finance. The discussions showed that alternative finance has only scratched the surface of its technological innovation’s potential ‒ the potential to… Read More