Tagged: luxembourg

November 24, 2016 @ 7:28 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Luxembourg government and its private sector partners announced the appointment of Nasir Zubairi as CEO of Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT). “I am excited to be working with the stakeholders in the Luxembourg community to progress fintech innovation. Luxembourg has great potential for fintech… Read More

October 26, 2016 @ 11:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Switzerland-based equity crowdfunding platform Bee Invested announced the launch of its new campaign for a real estate project located in Luxembourg. The website stated the offering is designed to simplify investments by connecting developers and investors. It also claimed is is the first… Read More

September 4, 2016 @ 5:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The FinTech Zone, created by Matt Elton, will launch this week at a ceremony held at Hotel Le Royal in Luxembourg City. This will be the first Fintech center for the country – a wealthy, financial center in Europe. Luxembourg is ranked highly in the Global… Read More

October 5, 2015 @ 3:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Commissioner Kara Stein took a quick trip across the Atlantic to speak at the Eurofi Forum in Luxembourg this past month.  She addressed the conference with a wide-ranging, brief speech that started at the financial crises and went on to “digital disruption and beyond”…. Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing its global expansion, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced that it has opened shop for five European countries: Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Kickstarter revealed on Tuesday: “We’re thrilled to announce that Kickstarter is now available to creators in five more European countries: Austria, Belgium,… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 8:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In an article posted today in the Luxumburger Wort, Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna commented that FinTech is the engine driving new financial services business models, promoting the Grand Duchy as a location for the burgeoning ICT sector. “What Silicon Valley has in Tech, we have in Fin,”… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 7:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Luxembourg based Direct Lending Investment, advised by Smart Lenders, has created the first US Dollar denominated security that is backed by peer to peer, or marketplace, funded loans.  As part of the process, Direct Lending Investment is using  Orchard’s analytics technology, according to information received… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Luxembourg based Mangopay, a payment solutions provider that works with a broad variety of transactional sites including crowdfunding platforms, has opened up an office Level 39, Canary Wharf in London positioning the company for further growth.  The Mangopay API was released in 2013 and today has… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Ablrate has announced an agreement for investment company Synthesis to use its P2P Sub-Fund to invest via the Ablrate site.  Ablrate is a unique “P2B” operation in that it is asset backed, leveraging commercial aviation leasing.  Ablrate launched in 2014… Read More