Tagged: event

January 5, 2017 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

For its first edition, the Paris Fintech Forum gathered over 100 speakers and attracted 850 participants. This year, the event promises to be even more successful as it is stepping up with more than 200 speakers from over 30 countries. Organizers are estimating over 1500… Read More

December 19, 2016 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Beat Media has announced its intent to host multiple crowdfunding focused events during 2017.  Crowdfunding Beat will kick off with an event in New York City this coming January 24th with the “State of Investing and Risk Mitigation through Crowdfunding” and then continue with conferences… Read More

December 6, 2016 @ 7:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is planning to hold the worlds largest equity crowdfunding event this coming February in Jerusalem.  The gathering is also being described as the biggest investor event ever in the Startup Nation. OurCrowd will showcase the evolving the face of investing… Read More

December 2, 2016 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

LendIt has always been about community. It all began back in 2012 when Jason Jones was speaking at a conference in New York that was organized by Dara Albright. He proposed creating a new event focused on marketplace lending (then called peer to peer lending),… Read More

November 28, 2016 @ 9:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendIt, the roving global conference series that started with online lending and now has pushed into Fintech, has announced the launch of its inaugural industry awards ceremony, to be held this coming March at the Lendit USA conference in New York City. Lendit CEO and… Read More

November 21, 2016 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

PwC and the Crowdfunding Centre are prepping to jointly publish a report in early 2017 entitled “Women Unbound”.  Their initial feedback indicates that women led crowdfunding campaigns are significantly more successful than those led by men across most industries – and across the world. The… Read More

November 15, 2016 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The SEC has had a busy week. First, the Commission held its first Fintech Forum, as suggested by Commissioner Piwowar, indicating its growing interest in financial technology disruption. This morning, SEC Chair Mary Jo White testified before the House Financial Services Committee regarding the SEC… Read More

November 14, 2016 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The very first Singapore Fintech Festival kicked off today with important support from the Singapore government. Both the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) partnered on launching the inaugural event.  The week long Fintech gathering expects to have… Read More

November 11, 2016 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding offers for  young automotive companies like Elio Motors and Dubuc have generated significant investor interest.  Recognizing this phenomena, the Crowd Invest Summit has added three additional companies to its roster of participants at their forthcoming event being held on the Los Angeles Convention… Read More

November 6, 2016 @ 3:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

New routes to funding – and making them more widely available, are the focus of an international conference to be held at London Southbank University later this month. According to organizers, a book will be published in the new year based on end-to-end data from… Read More

November 4, 2016 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has published the agenda for its first Fintech forum that is scheduled to take place on November 14th at SEC HQ in Wshington, DC.The forum is open to the public and begins at 9AM. The SEC will also be live-streaming… Read More

November 4, 2016 @ 9:30 am By Jessica Pham  |  

The Government of Singapore is inviting startups, tech companies, investors, and banks to its inaugural Singapore FinTech Festival between November 14-18. Events will include a Hackcelerator Demo Day, the FinTech Awards, and a speakers expo. Finalists competing in the FinTech Awards had been busy implementing… Read More

November 3, 2016 @ 12:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Victoria Silchenko has been a staunch propopent of the benefits of crowdfunding and alternative finance since day one. The founder of Metropole Capital Group and the Global Alternative Funding Forum, an annual event that brings together many prominent names in the Fintech sector, Silchenko has charted… Read More

October 30, 2016 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

The National Crowdfunding Association of Canada (NCFA Canada) recently held its annual event in Vancouver. VanFUNDING 2016 incorporated a “pitching showcase” and the winning companies were: ChatterHigh, Glance, My Green Space and Starling Minds. VanFUNDING was created to be all about boosting online and alternative… Read More

October 28, 2016 @ 4:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

OTC Markets has scheduled a one-day “Bootcamp” on leveraging updated rules enacted under Title IV of the JOBS Act. OTC Markets and Crowdfund Beat Media will be co-hosting a gathering at OTC headquarters in New York City to provide smaller companies the information they need… Read More

October 12, 2016 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ruth Hedges is from the early days of crowdfunding in the United States. Part of an original group of committed individuals who advocated on behalf of updating antiquated securities regulations, Hedges is a founding member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA); the group originally… Read More

October 12, 2016 @ 4:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The National Crowdfunding Association of Canada (NCFA) will be hosting its 2nd annual Fintech and crowdfunding conference next week and this year the show is in Vancouver and has been labeled VanFUNDING 2016. The NCFA has included multiple enterprise conference partners this year including PayPal… Read More

October 4, 2016 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

The inaugural Crowd Invest Summit continues to expand its roster of participants for the December event in Los Angeles.  The conference organizers previously announced Robert Herjavec, founder of Herjavec Group and star of ABC’s Emmy Award-winning hit Shark Tank, will speak in a Fireside Keynote… Read More

September 30, 2016 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

LendIt, the prominent online lending conference, is predicting a hugely successful event in New York this coming Spring. Each year the gathering has grown. Reportedly 2017 will be no different as Lendit expects over 5,000 participants from around the world. LendIt began in the US… Read More

September 28, 2016 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled a public forum to tackle the topic of Fintech – a wide ranging term that deals with innovation in the financial services sector fueled by recent improvements in technology. The event will take place at SEC headquarters on… Read More