Tagged: china

July 14, 2015 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Luxe.Co & Fashion.VC have announced raising RMB 10 million (USD $1.6 million) via equity crowdfunding. According to the company, investors included ZhenFund led by Xu Xiaoping plus 12 angel investors.  Xiaoping is the founder of New Oriental a publicly traded company on the NYSE. Luxe.Co… Read More

July 8, 2015 @ 1:29 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  China has still not issued crowdfunding regulations, leading big developers to seek out legal advice when employing crowdfunding, according to a recent article in the South China Morning Post. Given that the mainland authorities have also not licensed any crowdfunding platform, industry experts suggest that the… Read More

July 6, 2015 @ 12:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

MYBank, a new online only bank, is poised to challenge China’s state owned banks with its 100% digital, branchless banking operation that will serve customers 24 hours a day. This is one of China’s first privately owned internet banks as China pushes forward in the… Read More

July 5, 2015 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider recently published an article about a worrying issue in the crowdfunding space: Crowdfunding campaigns that are not really innovative and new but simply re-packaged products already for sale elsewhere – typically on Alibaba.  Since all things tech are mostly manufactured in Asia – many… Read More

June 29, 2015 @ 9:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lufax, China’s finance marketplace, announced today that its flagship P2P marketplaces have reached 10 million registered users. Gregory Gibb, Chairman and CEO of Lufax, stated: “We are excited to achieve this significant milestone. Our growth continues to accelerate as Lufax users experience the security, innovation and convenience… Read More

June 27, 2015 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

One of China’s largest direct sales platforms JD.com (Nasdaq:JD), and US based ZestFinance, a have formed an agreement to launch a joint venture called JD-ZestFinance Gaia.  This new partnership is designed to support the development of consumer credit in China.  The combined initiative will incorporate ZestFinance’s… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 11:32 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

China’s crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending markets have frequently featured in the news, as China seeks to decrease fraud in its rapidly expanding Internet finance world. Now, Beijing’s financial supervision agencies are using big data to crack down on illegal fundraising, with an online pre-warning platform already… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 10:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise, a trailblazer in the real estate crowdfunding space, is looking to expand and China is high on the list.  It is a natural step for the platform as the largest investor in Fundrise is Renren, a publicly traded social media platform based in Beijing…. Read More

June 19, 2015 @ 9:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wanda Group, China’s commercial developer by sales, is trying its hand at internet finance in the form of their crowdfunding app “Stable Earner No. 1,” which launched earlier this month and succeeded in raising RMB5 billion in just three days, reportedly smashing a global crowdfunding record in the process. On Thursday, the… Read More

June 19, 2015 @ 12:55 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Update on a $150 million fundraising round in progress: Chinese online lender Dianrong.com is raising funds in a round that values the startup at about $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, notes BloombergBusiness. Investors include Standard Chartered Plc, a British multinational banking and financial services… Read More

June 15, 2015 @ 11:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading peer to peer lending site LendInvest has received a £22 million investment from Chinese internet firm Beijing Kunlun. This is according to an article in the FT but was also referenced in a Board Meeting release from earlier this week. Christian Faes, co-founder and… Read More

June 14, 2015 @ 10:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

With new rules pending, the peer to peer lending market is jostling for position.  CreditEase, the first P2P lender in China, recently cemented an agreement with China Guanfa Bank as part of a push to assure investors their money is safe. According to a report… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 1:32 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

An initial public offering may be the ultimate goal for many internet start-ups, but not for Chinese peer-to-peer lender Renrendai, reported Kwong Man-ki of the South China Morning Post. “We will go for an IPO eventually, but we don’t have a timeframe. We’ll probably do… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 10:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

The freewheeling world of peer to peer lending may come to an end later this month in the worlds largest P2P lending market. China is expected to release a regulatory regime that will tighten control of internet finance – a sector that has grown incredibly… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 9:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wanda Group and 99 Bill jointly introduced China’s first commercial property crowdfunding project called “Stable Earner No.1” on June 8th, officially announcing the launch of Wanda’s Internet finance business. By innovating the traditional financing model of commercial property and leveraging innovative Internet finance tools, this project directly injects… Read More

June 6, 2015 @ 1:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

China is the largest peer to peer lending market in the world with one estimate placing total loans at over $53 billion for all of 2014. Last week we reported that loan originations were near $10 billion – for just the month of May.  The space… Read More

June 1, 2015 @ 11:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to a recent report, peer to peer loans in China hit a record high amount for the month of May topping $9.8 billion.  In April the amount of P2P loans was pegged at $8.9 billion. The report in the Shanghai Daily also stated that dodgy… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 12:40 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

A major Chinese peer-to-peer lender, Dianrong.com, now claims a valuation of “around” $1 billion, due to its latest round of fundraising, according to the company’s CEO, Soul Htite, in a conversation with CNBC (Reuters also contributed to the story). U.S. investment firm Tiger Global was the source… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 11:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

NetEase (NASDAQ: NTES), one of China’s leading Internet and online game services providers, has announced that is subsidiary Ujia E-commerce Co., Ltd., has signed an agreement with Everbright Securities Co., and HNA Group to form a joint venture company. The joint venture is described as having a primary… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 10:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Auto China’s K-Lend, a peer to peer lending platform for vehicle financing, has just published an update for Q1 2015 operations. The Company announced that it recorded 1,180 new leases of commercial vehicles (primarily Class 8 heavy trucks) as part of the Company’s sales-type leasing… Read More