Tagged: germany

February 1, 2019 @ 1:29 am By Cali Haan  |  

The co-founder of IOTA, Dominik Schiener has told Reuters that a majority of the 10 million Euros ($11.4 million USD) in IOTA crypto tokens that police believe was stolen by a lone hacker from Oxford, England, has been located, The 36-year-old accused hacker was arrested last… Read More

January 31, 2019 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Boerse Stuttgart Group has officially launched their long-anticipated crypto asset trading platform: Bison. The regulated stock exchange has released an App after a year of development, available for both iOS and Android, to enable the trading of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin. This is a no-fee trading… Read More

January 28, 2019 @ 1:00 am By Zoë Adamovicz  |  

We often hear that “code is law”. It means that all transactions happening on decentralized networks are final and immutable. It does not mean, however, that code derives from the law. The legal frameworks we operate within are not God-given. They are social agreements that… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 5:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neufund, a security token offering platform, completed its first issuance of digital securities in their parent company, Fifth Force GmbH, company last month. The purchased tokens will be minted for shareholders on February 12, if everything goes as planned. The equity token raised an equivalent of €3… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender creditshelf has shared the results of their “Financing Monitor 2019.” According to their research, Germany-based SMEs are feeling the consequences of international trade conflicts and questions. “Every second company reports that access to credit has deteriorated compared to the previous year.” creditshelf states… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 2:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  vanilla bean, claiming the title as “the world’s first packaging-free restaurant delivery service,” offers CO2-free, fair, and 100% vegan packaging. The Regensberg, Germany based company aims to help solve the problem of packaging waste: almost 50% of the plastic waste produced worldwide comes from packaging…. Read More

January 17, 2019 @ 6:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Temenos AG (SIX: TEMN), the Switzerland based banking software provider, has added Fintech Raisin to their Marketplace. Raisin is an online service that enables savers to earn the highest interest rate possible in a current account regardless of geography. Temenos provides banking software to more… Read More

January 16, 2019 @ 12:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

creditshelf AG, a digital SME financing lender in Germany, announced on Tuesday it has appointed Dr. Gregor Heinrich as Chief Technology Officer. According to creditshelf, Dr. Gregor Heinrich has more than 10 years’ experience as a CTO, with most recently at Stonebranch, a mid-size provider of… Read More

January 15, 2019 @ 8:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, it was picked up by Crunchbase that Wefunder, a Reg CF crowdfunding portal, has closed on a $1.7 million Series A funding round. Depending exactly how you measure it, Wefunder is a top portal providing access to capital for mainly smaller firms. Wefunder… Read More

January 13, 2019 @ 8:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Mitte, a new spin in the home beverage space that is like a Nespresso product but for water, is crowdfunding on Republic. The Berlin-based company is raising debt capital using a “Crowd SDA” [Crowd Simple Debt Agreement] seeking up to $100,000. Mitte previously ran rewards/e-commerce campaigns that have yet to… Read More

December 18, 2018 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Germany based Fintech creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft, an SME financing platform, is launching a new partnership with CrossLend to offer the first digital securitization of SME loans in Germany. According to creditshelf, CrossLend is an investor on the creditshelf platform and purchases loan receivables as part of the… Read More

December 14, 2018 @ 12:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Security token offering platform Neufund is in the midst of its inaugural security offering with the “equity token offering” (ETO) of its parent company Fifth Force Gmbh. CI reported earlier this week that the ETO had easily topped its soft target and now stands at… Read More

December 14, 2018 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Raisin has distributed an update on platform progress since the company launched five years ago. The creation of CEO Dr. Tamaz Georgadze, the Berlin-based firm has now helped their customers earn over €80 million in interest during a historically low-interest rate environment. PayPal, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital… Read More

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