Tagged: germany

September 22, 2021 @ 11:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equiduct, a retail securities exchange, is now offering Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) trading on Apex – Equiduct’s on-exchange Best Execution service with zero trading fees for retail brokers. Equiduct is a market segment of Börse Berlin. Equiduct states that ETFs… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HCL Technologies, a global tech firm, has agreed to a multi-year application services transformation partnership with Lendico, which is a brand of ING Germany, in order to deliver application and engineering services to help it create a digital platform that makes business banking faster and… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Antler, an early-stage VC, has announced its inaugural portfolio of investments for Antler Berlin. Launched in 2017 in Singapore, Antler holds a mission to enable and invest in the world’s most exceptional people building the defining companies of tomorrow. Antler reports that it received almost… Read More

September 21, 2021 @ 11:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Etherisc, an open-source, decentralized insurance protocol, and ecosystem, together with the Blockchain Competence Center Mittweida (BCCM) at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, today announced the launch of a joint project to develop a blockchain-based insurance prototype. This project aims to provide refined alternatives to traditional… Read More

September 20, 2021 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In August 2021, investors remained quite active on European online investment platform EstateGuru and financed a total of €17.0M worth of loans (84 loans). As expected, the top-performing markets on EstateGuru this past month were Estonia and Germany, with loan volumes of €5.3M and €6.9M,… Read More

September 14, 2021 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

creditshelf, a marketplace lender for German SMEs, is reporting that it generated more than €100 million of new loan business between January and September 2021, already exceeding the total loan volume of €98.9 million arranged in the fiscal year 2020. creditshelf stated that its loans… Read More

September 14, 2021 @ 7:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor, a European debt and equity investment platform, has listed its first tokenized securities offering dining business Beets & Roots. According to a note from the company, investors may now purchase token-based participation rights. Jens Siebert, COO and co-founder of Invesdor, explained that token-based participation… Read More

September 3, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hawk AI, Germany’s software provider of Transaction Monitoring for banking institutions, payment companies and Fintech firms, reveals that it has teamed up with Moss, a Berlin-headquartered expense and financial platform for comprehensive management of card payments, worker expenses, and invoices. Through the partnership, Hawk AI’s… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 2:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perception of investment crowdfunding in Germany continues to tick up, according to crowdfunding.de. In its annual barometer report, almost 3/4 of surveyed individuals are aware of the ability to raise money online at 74.3% The segment of people that understand crowdfunding is almost half at… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 6:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iwoca, one of the largest small business lenders in Europe, has introduced its “industry-first” cash advance product on Funding Xchange for small business online sellers. iwoca will reportedly be the first lender in the United Kingdom – leveraging Open Banking – to provide fully automated… Read More

August 30, 2021 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scalable Capital, an online broker and one of Europe’s largest digital wealth management platforms, recently expanded its savings plan offering. Scalable Capital customers are now able to consistently save towards stocks, exchange-traded funds or ETFs, and virtual currencies, beginning at just 1 Euro savings rate…. Read More

August 29, 2021 @ 9:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS:ADYEN), the international payments platform, recently announced the launch of its integration with Shiji Payments, offering hospitality businesses the option to leverage the  Adyen platform together with Shiji, “a leader in the provision of technological solutions for the hospitality, food service, retail, and entertainment… Read More

August 27, 2021 @ 6:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Serrala, an international financial automation and B2B payments software firm, has acquired a majority investment from Hg, a global software and services investor. After the deal is finalized, Serrala’s Chief Executive Sven Lindemann and existing investor, Waterland, will continue to offer support to the business… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 11:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

GenoCrowd, a partnership between Raiffeisenbank im Hochtaunus and CrowdDesk, has announced its first securities offering for a property project in Leipzig. GenoCrowd GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of CrowdDesk GmbH. Both GenoCrowd GmbH and CrowdDesk GmbH are companies that are independent of Raiffeisenbank im Hochtaunus eG…. Read More

July 27, 2021 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Solarisbank AG, which claims to be Europe’s leading Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, reveals that it has acquired EUR 190 million in an “oversubscribed” Series D round, valuing the firm at EUR 1.4 billion. The company’s investment round has been led by Decisive Capital Management, along with… Read More

July 26, 2021 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Fraunhofer Society has published a report on the crowdfunding sector in Germany during the time of COVID-19. Fraunhofer states that the year 2020 will “remain in special memories for all of us” as COVID-19 unpredictably changed all of our lives. The research took a… Read More

July 22, 2021 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LGT, a global private banking and asset management group that is owned by the Princely House of Liechtenstein, has reportedly decided to acquire a minority stake in Germany’s digital wealth manager LIQID. As noted by its management: “LIQID is a digital wealth manager that offers… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 11:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Savings interest rates have hit record lows says Raisin citing ECB data. According to the ECB, retail interest rates in the eurozone have dropped to 0.16% on average, the lowest average interest rate on record.  If you are a corporation, things get worse as businesses… Read More

July 18, 2021 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The iwoca SME Expert Index reveals that 1 in 3 brokers “see rising demand for unsecured finance.” As noted in an update shared with CI, more than a third (38%) of brokers submitted “more lending applications for unsecured finance in May compared to the previous… Read More

July 17, 2021 @ 5:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at EstateGuru, an online lending platform that offers retail investors the ability to back loans secured by property, notes that even though we’re in the middle of really hot summer days and the start of the holiday season, the platform has still seen… Read More