Tagged: cnbc

January 14, 2016 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Noah Breslow, CEO of OnDeck (NYSE:ONDK), walked over to the studios of CNBC to talk about their recent partnership with JP Morgan and the future of credit.  Breslow started by stating the obvious; driving to a branch and then waiting multiple weeks for a loan… Read More

January 10, 2016 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech is a broad term that covers a growing portfolio of services and applications that facilitate financial transactions. While the epicenter may be capital formation, it is really all about finance moving inevitably online, and big banking is waking up to the opportunity and the challenge…. Read More

December 26, 2015 @ 9:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Manny Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of DreamFunded an equity crowdfunding platform, joined the hosts of CNBC’s squawk box to discuss the merits of investing in pre-IPO companies. The lines between “public” and “private” companies have become a bit blurred with new securities exemptions.  Simultaneously, the… Read More

December 23, 2015 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

How will the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates impact small business? According to Robert Riedl of Dealstruck – it is all good. DealStruck is a marketplace lending platform that focuses on providing access to capital for SMEs. Dealstruck provides loans of up to… Read More

December 15, 2015 @ 12:22 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

“After much anticipation, the exciting news is finally out,” shared DealIndex Founder and CEO Neha Manaktala on LinkedIn. In partnership with CNBC, DealIndex announced the launch of four crowdfunding indices: International 50 Index, UK 50 Index, Technology Index, and the International Aggregate Index. The indices take transparency in… Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 9:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, CEO of Singapore-based real estate crowdfunding platform CoAssets, Getty Goh, sat down with CNBC to discuss how the website’s growth. Goh revealed that the CoAssets offers projects in the regional markets and serves the funding gap of between $1 million to $5 million…. Read More

November 30, 2015 @ 8:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, CEO of Brookstone, Tom Via, sat down with CNBC to discuss the new partnership between the retailer and crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. Earlier this month, Indiegogo revealed that campaign organizers will be able to submit their ideas directly to Brookstone’s partner page through its… Read More

November 24, 2015 @ 8:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  “Our prediction is that the marketplace lending industry will undergo continued and increasing growth, opening up new investment opportunities and new avenues of capital formation for start-ups and small businesses.” It’s not too late to participate in the 2015 Americas Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey;… Read More

September 4, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

More than 130K students have turned to GoFundMe, seeking crowdfunding to help pay their tuition costs,  CNBC reports in the short video embedded below.  More than $20M dollars has been raised this year. With the average cost of tuition and fees for private institutions exceeding $31K,… Read More

August 13, 2015 @ 4:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week Lending Club, the largest marketplace lending platform in the US, released its quarterly financial results.  The numbers beat the street.  But even more important is the fact the direct lending platform is growing.  If you compare their growth to somnolent banks the comparison… Read More

August 10, 2015 @ 11:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Financial industry touchstone CNBC reviewed the hot topic of Silicon Valley gunning for the banking industry.  Old school types are quick to assign Marketplace Lending (P2P Lending) and equity crowdfunding to the shadow banking never-world but the reality is that internet finance is more efficient,… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Eric Cantor spent 13 years in the House of Representatives, the last three as House Majority Leader.  After losing a primary battle that surprised just about everyone, Cantor took a new day job as Vice Chairman of investment bank Moelis & Company. Even though Cantor is… Read More

June 30, 2015 @ 12:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In order to save Greece from its bad financial situation, a young Londoner named, Thom Feeney, has launched a nine-day crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise €1.6 billion so that the small country’s residents can be free of the crazy debt. Last week, the country missed its €1.6 billion ($1.8… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 2:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Weighing in on Taylor Swift’s recent move to convince Apple to start paying independent artists, CEO of Indiegogo, Slava Rubin, sat down with Squawk Alley to reveal his thoughts on the situation. Recently the country-gone-pop starlet revealed her thoughts about Apple and how she didn’t… 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 12, 2015 @ 3:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Standing by their team no matter what, Patriot fans near and far have hit crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to help raise $1 million towards the “deflategate” fine that the NFL team was slapped with on Monday. According to an NFL commissioned report, the team’s quarterback, Tom Brady,… Read More

March 27, 2015 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the new documentary Billion Dollar Bully continues to remain success on crowdfunding giant, Kickstarter (by raising its initial $60,000 goal), Prost Production producer, Kaylie Milliken sat down to share details about the new project and her slightly awkward interview with CNBC’s First Money. As previously reported, Billion Dollar… Read More

March 24, 2015 @ 3:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

With the ongoing trial of Ellen Pao, formerly of Kleiner Perkins and now interim CEO of Reddit, and her gender discrimination accussations, there has been a lot of media coverage on the issue of women in business – specifically tech. The results of the trial… Read More

March 23, 2015 @ 7:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Prost Production’s producer, Kaylie Milliken, took to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter to raise $60,000 for the upcoming documentary Billion Dollar Bully. The film is on marketing giant Yelp’s $3.6 billion racket against small business owners and it investigates the website’s past, along with business owners accusing it of extortion,… Read More

March 3, 2015 @ 11:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifeld spoke briefly on CNBC today about the “institutional battle” between the NYSE and Nasdaq in regards to the number of IPOs.  For the record Nasdaq chalked up 189 for $22 billion raised in 2014 while the NYSE listed 129 for total… Read More