June 5, 2017 @ 9:25 am By Joshua G. Hamilton, James H. Moon & Bret M. Geckeler  |  

Crowdfunding regulations were enacted with the goal of providing small businesses access to capital without imposing arduous registration and disclosure burdens.[i]  In that regard, the regulations have shown significant promise. Commentators have rightfully highlighted the substantial benefits to both issuers and investors based on their… Read More

October 20, 2016 @ 11:14 am By JD Alois  |  

FINRA is a non-governmental entity that acts as a financial regulator over a wide swath of the financial industry.  Their mission is to detect and prevent wrongdoing in the US financial markets. FINRA also has enforcement powers. Last year alone they rendered over 1500 disciplinary… Read More

July 10, 2016 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The budding Marijuana industry has attracted a legion of “ganjapreneurs” seeking the chance to cash in on the US movement to legalize and legitimize Cannabis. ArcView Group, a “hub for investment, data and progress” estimates the industry will drive around $7 billion in revenue during 2016…. Read More

March 17, 2015 @ 7:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Balanced, a payments and escrow platform, has announced they are shutting down operations and have given a 90 day notice to clients of the closure. The announcement was made by Balanced co-founder & CEO, Matin Tamizi. Balanced has formed an agreement with Stripe to migrate customers if… Read More

November 23, 2014 @ 11:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a widely circulated email sent last week, BancBox delivered the news to crowdfunding and lending portals their Invest product may soon be coming to an end.  BancBox has been providing a service to a varied number of crowdfunding portals that currently depend on their… Read More

June 30, 2014 @ 2:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

BancBox, a company that sees investment crowdfunding platforms as a targeted customer for their services that “give non-financial institutions a simple, secure way to collect, store, and send money” has released a statement indicating they are currently reviewing their process of onboarding customers onto their platform…. Read More

April 7, 2014 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve been keeping up with PandoDaily writer James Robinson’s (pictured) digging into HealBe’s Indiegogo campaign. It turns out that Robinson’s search is now leading him toward other Indiegogo campaigns seemingly with similar issues. A recent article dives into claims made during a campaign for the TellSpec, a device… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 10:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BancBox Invest (formerly BancBox Crowd) is a crowdfunding API that we’ve covered in-depth in the past. The escrow and payment solution for crowdfunding platforms recently shared statistics with Crowdfund Insider, and so far things are looking good. The company shared that 18 crowdinvesting platforms are current… Read More

August 19, 2013 @ 3:45 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently brought you the story of Balanced, a payment processor and escrow service specializing in P2P marketplaces and crowdfunding platforms. Part of the story around Balanced is their open approach to building a business. A big part of that approach is deep integration with… Read More

July 25, 2013 @ 9:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Balanced was created to increase the global economy through payments. As we built Balanced, it troubled me that we had adopted the closed-off culture common to the financial services industry, where everything was locked up for the sake of “competitive advantage.” That wasn’t the kind of… Read More

July 22, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

One of the most important decisions any crowdfunding platform will undertake is deciding how to process payments. Platforms operate in a very specific (and complicated) context. In particular, two issues are bound to come up when considering whether to adopt a certain payment solution… Escrow… Read More