December 7, 2023 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prospective homebuyers’ patience may be waning, with fewer willing to wait until home prices or interest rates come down to purchase a home, according to new data from the Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Homebuyer Insights Report. Today, 62% are willing to “wait for prices… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset firm Taurus SA is expanding into Germany. The firm is regulated in Switzerland by FINMA and provides an infrastructure to issue, custody, and trade any digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, NFTs, and digital currencies. Taurus also operates a marketplace for private assets… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), a firm focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, published unaudited bitcoin (BTC) production and miner installation updates for November 2023. Fred Thiel, Marathon’s chairman and CEO, said: “In November, we increased our domestic energized hash rate 20% to… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has announced it will collaborate with Traydstream, a provider of innovative trade documentation solutions to “provide clients with access to a cutting edge and automated trade-document processing capability.” The collaboration provides clients “with an opportunity to leverage a vast array of pre-loaded… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Nick Morgan  |  

With the investment crowdfunding industry surpassing the $2 billion mark and involving over 6,600 companies conducting 7,600 offerings across 580 industries, Capital Ideas checks in with Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss, one of the early architects of what evolved into Regulation Crowdfunding [Reg CF].  Among other things,… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scalable Capital, a digital investment platform in Europe, announced the closing of a €60 million in equity financing. The Series E extension was led “by European venture capital firm Balderton Capital with participation from existing investors, including HV Capital – underscoring their strong support for… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG has shared its response to the latest UK Q3 M&A data. Rob Baxter, UK Head of Corporate Finance at KPMG, commented: “A combination of domestic and global factors continues to suppress UK dealmaking. But while the cost of borrowing will remain high, slowing inflation… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is launching a Crypto app, which will be offered to all eligible customers in the European Union (EU). According to a blog post by Robinhood, it is “the only custodial crypto platform where customers will get a percentage of their trading volume… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Liberis, an embedded business finance solutions provider, announced it has secured $112 million in debt financing in order “to support its further growth in North America and Europe and expansion into new markets, including Canada, Poland and Germany.” This collaboration is set “to inject a… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 3:00 am By JD Alois  |  

FinTech Scotland has announced the launch of the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL). The project is predicted to shape the regulatory landscape for financial services in the UK as well as around the world. The Lab was created in partnership with the University of Strathclyde… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two-thirds (66%) of quick-service and fast-casual restaurant industry employees are at least somewhat stressed about their finances, according to a new independent study conducted by YouGov, commissioned by DailyPay. The research, which surveyed quick service restaurant (QSR) and fast-casual restaurant employees, indicates “that the majority… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than half (62%) of financial advisors currently allocate between 6% and 25% of clients’ portfolios to alternative asset classes, with (85%) of them expecting “to increase allocations to one or more alternative asset classes further within the next year,” according to a recent independent… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mine, a company disrupting the data privacy market, announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, co-led by Battery Ventures and PayPal Ventures, with significant investments from Nationwide Ventures and “with the participation of all existing investors including Saban Ventures, Gradient Ventures… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), an firm focused on Bitcoin (BTC) mining and data center hosting, announced that it has executed a purchase option and updated its long-term purchase agreement with MicroBT Electronics Technology Co., LTD, “through its manufacturing subsidiaries, a prominent manufacturer of Bitcoin… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 5:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Today, Chairman Gary Gensler announced an update to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s regulatory agenda for the fall of 2023. While we have not compared with the prior iteration, topics like Reg D and Accredited Investor definition,  12-g rules and ATS updates are still on… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 4:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instant payment service FedNow offers individuals and businesses many benefits including greater efficiency, quicker access to their money, and reduced transaction costs. Yet, unlike conventional, slower payment methods, FedNow doesn’t offer any form of payment reversal or chargeback functionality. That begs the question: Will FedNow… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic Note is now trading on INX, according to an email distributed by Republic. The digital security is designed to enable investors to participate in the gains generated from the issuers who have raising money on Republic and delivered a return for the portfolio. According… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In another step towards developing the cryptocurrency trading platform Nubank Cripto, Nubank (NYSE:NU) announced its integration with Talos, the provider of institutional digital asset trading technology. With this partnership, customers who wish to trade crypto assets in Brazilian reais through the Nu app will benefit… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Horiz.io, an SaaS platform aiming to simplify real estate investment for property search, yield calculation & rental management, has secured over €200,000 from more than 210 investors at the time of writing via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Crowdcube with currently less than two… Read More

December 6, 2023 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

  While many P2P lenders have fallen to the wayside or moved on to accepting only institutional funding, Folk2Folk perseveres with its original mission. Today, Folk2Folk claims the title of the UK’s largest peer-to-peer lending platform in terms of cumulative lending, having facilitated £653 million… Read More