December 10, 2018 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund announced its first security token offering or “equity token offering” last month. The first primary issuance of a security on blockchain is for its parent company Fifth Force GmbH. The offering commenced on November 27th. Neufund’s offering is described as providing an example of a… Read More

December 6, 2018 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Security token issuance platform Neufund has announced a new partnership with Ledger, a crypto wallet and secure custody platform for digital assets. Ledger’s solutions are already incorporated into Neufund’s platform and this new agreement builds on previous collaboration, which created a special edition of the Ledger Nano S… Read More

November 30, 2018 @ 4:49 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A raid initiated yesterday at Deutsche Bank headquarters in Frankfurt has continued into today as 170 police, prosecutors and tax officials look for evidence of money laundering described in the Panama papers, Reuters reports. The raid has involved a comprehensive search of the offices of… Read More

November 29, 2018 @ 4:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Germany based Fintech creditshelf has completed a study entitled “Industrial SMEs and Financing 4.0” (Industrieller Mittelstand und Finanzierung 4.0). Partnering with TU Darmstadt, the research queried 244 board members and managing directors to garner the results this past July. According to the study, SMEs are more… Read More

November 28, 2018 @ 6:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Malta Digital Exchange (MDX), a multi-asset digital exchange, which focuses on security tokens and virtual financial assets (VFA), announced on Wednesday it has signed an MOU with German P2P finance platform finbc for the listing of their security token FBC. According to MDX, finbc will perform a security… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 1:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a full stack security token issuance platform, has announced the details of the forthcoming “equity token offering” (ETO) for their parent company Fifth Force Gmbh (token symbol FTH).  Announced last week, Neufund is poised to become the first European issuer to offer shares on… Read More

November 23, 2018 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender creditshelf has reported results for the first nine months of 2018. As of the reporting date, the company recorded requests amounting to € 750.6 million, more than twice as much as in the first nine months of 2017. creditshelf said it was able… Read More

November 20, 2018 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Berlin-based Neufund, an end to end security token platform, is set to host Europe’s first primary issuance of tokenized equity that is offered to the general public. The first company to use the blockchain based Neufund platform will be parent company Fifth Force GmbH which is… Read More

November 19, 2018 @ 7:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

FinLeap, the fintech start-up platform behind Germany’s SolarisBank, announced on Monday it secured €41.5 million in its investment round, led by Ping An‘s Global Voyager Fund. As previously reported, FinLeap was co-founded by Jan Beckers, Ramin Niroumand and Hendrik Krawinkel to found and build digital start-ups within the financial industry. Its portfolio companies… Read More

November 18, 2018 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

The Blockchain Bundesverband, an association for the promotion of blockchain technology in Germany, has announced a new think tank for token regulation. “thinkBLOCKtank” will release a joint paper supported by various European countries entitled EU Token Regulation as the group seeks to drive the regulatory… Read More

November 9, 2018 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

It has been a few choppy weeks in Germany for the blockchain / digital asset industry. Last month, a German court ruled that Bitcoin was not a financial instrument. The case centered around an enterprising teenager who launched a Bitcoin exchange five years ago. He was… Read More

November 8, 2018 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Last month, BaFin, Germany’s security regulator, launched a public consultation on the subject of virtual currencies (or crypto). The regulator has published a draft circular regarding sector due diligence. The BaFin circular seeks a reasonable and risk-oriented approach to virtual currency. The proposed circular addresses credit, financial services, payments and e-money… Read More

November 8, 2018 @ 8:44 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Sono Motors GmbH, a Munich-based electric car startup, is revving up to surpass the €6M milestone in its most recent Seedrs equity crowdfunding campaign. At this writing, over 645 investors have plugged in funds into this overfunding campaign, surpassing €5,984,710 for 5.15% equity offered. Electric cars… Read More

November 7, 2018 @ 8:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Germany-based challenger bank N26 is bringing its services to Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Sweden. This news comes just weeks after the fintech officially launched in the UK. As previously reported, N26 was founded in 2013 and stated it has redesigned banking to make it simple, fast and contemporary…. Read More

October 30, 2018 @ 5:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Insurtech omni:us has closed on a new funding round. The specific details of the funding were not reported but omni:us said that total funding to date now stands at $22.5 million. Crunchbase reports a seed round in 2016 of €4.2 million. The investment was led by… Read More

October 24, 2018 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a leading Germany-based Fintech startup and security token issuance platform, published an open letter to the German Bundestag today. The letter was in response to a recent court ruling in Germany that determined Bitcoin was not a financial instrument. The case centered around a… Read More

October 4, 2018 @ 8:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Germany-based challenger bank N26 has officially launched in the UK in setting up an interesting battle between other competing digital banks. The Fintech reportedly issued its first British accounts on Thursday. The launch of the UK accounts comes just a few months after N26 announced it… Read More

October 2, 2018 @ 11:32 am By Cali Haan  |  

Ethereum’s mythical 17 000% 2017 price rise is but a distant memory in 2018’s long bear market, and for three-quarters of ICO (initial coin offering) projects initiated in Germany by German companies, a “loss is now closer than such dream returns,” WirtschaftsWoche reports. A total of… Read More

October 2, 2018 @ 9:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kontist, a Berlin-based challenger bank, announced on Tuesday it secured a Series A investment to expand the financial services available to freelancers, small businesses, and entrepreneurs. The round was led by Haufe Group, one of Germany’s providers of digital workplace solutions and services with participation from… Read More

September 27, 2018 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, Europe’s first security token issuance platform, has partnered with Liechtenstein-based Blocktrade to provide additional liquidity in security tokens. Neufund has previously announced partnerships with the Malta Stock Exchange, Binance and BitBay for secondary transactions.  The move is designed to boost liquidity in the nascent security… Read More