Tagged: bonds

March 23, 2021 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

WiseAlpha, a digital bond investing platform, shares that its Bond Academy education platform has launched on the Open University. Regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, WiseAlpha is an online investment platform that makes corporate bonds available to private investors at affordable sizes, via its… Read More

March 16, 2021 @ 1:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer-to-peer lending marketplace Mintos reveals that on 1 March 2021, Mogo Latvia had issued bonds valued at €30 million, thus managing to successfully complete the largest bond issue in recent years by a private firm via the Nasdaq Riga Stock Exchange. On March 11, 2021,… Read More

March 5, 2021 @ 11:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Piemonte Holding has launched a bond trading platform using blockchain technology. The new marketplace is said to be the first of its kind in Latin America. The platform is designed to enable Piemonte’s investors to trade R$150 million in debentures all using the Ethereum blockchain…. Read More

January 12, 2021 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

WiseAlpha, a digital bond investment marketplace, will now integrate with Money Dashboard enabling users to track all of their investments including savings, financial accounts as well as bond investments. The WiseAlpha marketplace now integrates its fractional bonds with the service. WiseAlpha seeks to boost utilization… Read More

November 12, 2020 @ 1:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fusang, a  Labuan-based Fintech, has partnered with the China Construction Bank to issue $3 billion worth of bonds utilizing blockchain technology. According to Fusang: “The Issuer is a special purpose vehicle and its principal activity is to establish the commercial paper programme of up to… Read More

August 4, 2020 @ 11:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bursa Malaysia Berhad, the stock exchange of Malaysia, has partnered with Hashstacs Pte Ltd, based in Singapore, regarding a bond on blockchain proof-of-concept (POC). The project has been labeled “Project Harbour” and it aims to explore distributed ledger technology and tokenization of assets while boosting… Read More

June 14, 2020 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vinay Pagaria, co-founder at India-based StockEdge, a company that helps India’s residents, particularly the younger generations, with learning more about how to responsibly and effectively invest their money in stocks and bonds, has revealed that the platform now has 1 million registered users. Pagaria claims:… Read More

January 17, 2020 @ 9:10 am By JD Alois  |  

WiseAlpha, a marketplace for corporate bonds, is reporting Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certification for its Bond Academy. In December, WiseAlpha announced the Bond Academy – an entity that will be directed by independent expert instructor, George Flynn from Europeanhighyield.online. WiseAlpha is regulated by the UK… Read More

December 19, 2019 @ 1:54 am By JD Alois  |  

WiseAlpha, an interesting Fintech that offers an online marketplace for corporate bonds, is looking to boost investor interest by offering a new “bond academy” to educate investors about the corporate bond market. WiseAlpha is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and has sought to… Read More

April 26, 2019 @ 12:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Russian banking group Sberbank announced on Friday it has redeemed first issue of its reatil investment-grade bonds. According to Sberbank, the yield of this issue depended on the performance of Gazprom’s American depositary receipts (ADRs) and was 20.14% for the maturity period (9.61% per annum). … Read More

October 1, 2018 @ 7:13 am By JD Alois  |  

On Tuesday (2 October 2018), Austria will become the first European country to issue a government bond using blockchain technology. The Austrian government is auctioning off €1.15 billion in Bonds using Ethereum to manage the security issuance.  The issuance will be handled by the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank (OeKB)… Read More

April 16, 2018 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based Triodos Bank announced on Monday five positive social and environmental impact organizations have raised more than £7 million through its crowdfunding platform in the three months since the portal’s debut. According to Triodos, the crowdfunding site opened to investors in January and the latest offer to… Read More

March 15, 2018 @ 8:17 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a UK based online marketplace platform for property finance, has announced a proposed issuance of  5.375% fixed rate bonds due October 2023 by its wholly-owned subsidiary, LendInvest Secured Income plc. Christian Faes, Co-founder and CEO of LendInvest Limited, said they were delighted to return… Read More

December 21, 2017 @ 4:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

dv01, the data management, reporting, and analytics platform that offers institutional investors transparency and insight into lending markets, announced on Thursday it is set to close 2017 with $7.9 billion of consumer unsecured bonds. This news comes just a few months after the company launched its… Read More

November 22, 2017 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Overbond Ltd., an end-to-end Capital Markets platform for primary bond origination and fixed income deal execution, recently announced it has expanded real-time access to the Overbond Platform to all U.S. corporate issuers and institutional investors by extending key functionality via desktop and mobile applications for… Read More

July 15, 2016 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently launched crowdfunding platform, Downing Crowd, an offshoot of London-based VC firm Downing, is finding success with its new platform. Powered by Edinburgh-based ShareIn, Downing Crowd has closed its second deal in two days raising a total of £3.2 million.  According to information provided by… Read More

April 26, 2016 @ 1:27 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The US’ largest marketplace lender LendingClub Corp. is planning its first sale of bonds backed by its unsecured loans, reported the WSJ, seeking new funding sources in today’s challenging market. Working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Jefferies Group on the offerings, LendingClub’s plans to discuss updates with potential investors as early as this week, reported the WSJ; Goldman… Read More

November 13, 2015 @ 2:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube announced that research revealed that its bonds are notably “increasing the interesting rate.” The UK-based website shared: “The bonds on Crowdcube enable our crowd of over 220,000 people the opportunity to invest in more established businesses. In return, investors are receiving… Read More

September 27, 2015 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Iron Sky, the cult film, is back on Invesdor once again to raise more capital. We last heard from Iron Sky in 2014.  The camp classic film about Nazi’s who are hiding out on the moon, hit Invesdor to raise €150,000 to help finance the movie… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 2:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform, Fundrise, announced this week that it has opened a new crowdfunding campaign dedicated to raise a minimum of $2 million in tax free bonds for New York City’s 3 World Trade Center. The investment summary reads,”This investment is dependent upon the performance… Read More