Tagged: russia

December 29, 2016 @ 8:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Higher School of Economics in Moscow announced the second year of its fintech startup program HSE{Pro}Fintech. According to the business incubator, the official partner of the fintech section is Waves, a crowdfunding, community management, and national settlement depository. Higher School of Economics stated it the fintech startup… Read More

December 15, 2016 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital money transfer service WorldRemit announced on Tuesday it expanded its services into Russia by partnering with Russian payment system CONTACT. The company stated its customers may now send money to be collected as cash at any CONTACT office across Russia in euros or dollars. According to… Read More

December 1, 2016 @ 10:02 am By Erin Hobey  |  

TWINO Group, a European consumer lender which has been operating since 2009 with its P2P lending platform launching in 2015, provides unsecured consumer loans for private individuals in ten countries, including Poland, Russia and Georgia, with an intention to move into Mexico. TWINO’s P2P lending platform offers… Read More

November 14, 2016 @ 7:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Mark Ruddock has been appointed CEO of FinstarLabs. This appointment was described as a “major statement” and reflecting the commitment of Oleg Boyko, Founder and Chairman of Finstar Financial Group, to the continued growth of Finstar’s fintech and financial services investment program. FinstarLabs was created… Read More

November 10, 2016 @ 9:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Currently Russia’s emerging crowdfunding sector accounts for less than 500 million rubles (USD 7,748,755) in total liabilities, and shows disproportion of different segments and high volatility. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has initiated a working group of market experts from more than ten local crowdfunding platforms for the development… Read More

November 10, 2016 @ 8:00 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Blackmoon Financial Group, an online lending platform that connects balance sheet lenders with institutional investors looking to purchase new loans, announced today its latest round of funding; $2.5 million in equity capital from Target Global, A&NN Group, Flint Capital, and several private investors. Blackmoon intends to use the new round… Read More

October 5, 2016 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Sberbank is Russia’s largest bank with over 135 million customers. Sberbank holds almost one-third of aggregate Russian banking sector assets, it is the key lender to the national economy and the biggest deposit taker in Russia. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is the founder… Read More

October 4, 2016 @ 6:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Blackmoon Financial Group is a newer entry into the marketplace lending sector.  Launched in 2014, Blackmoon is marketed as “marketplace lending as a service” or MLaaS. Focusing on balance sheet lenders, Blackmoon has developed technologies to provide integration with  loan originators with institutional investors. The platform… Read More

July 25, 2016 @ 11:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the announcement that the Russian Olympic Team might be facing disqualification from participating in the 2016 Rio Olympics for doping, athletes from all over the world showed their support for the whistleblowers involved in the now infamous scandal through a crowdfunding campaign. The initiative’s description… Read More

July 11, 2016 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Last spring, Finstar Financial Group announced the appointment of Paul Muhr, previously a Vice President at Citi and before that at Goldman Sachs. Today, Finstar is announcing three new hires as it prepares for additional investment in the Fintech sector. Finstar has hired Eugene Timko as… Read More

July 7, 2016 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Bank’s are not known for taking on risk – they are known for avoiding it as much as possible. This is not the case with Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia, and their venture fund as they see opportunity in the digital future. Sberbank’s SBT… Read More

March 29, 2016 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Finstar Financial Group wants to build its Fintech portfolio and has hired Paul Muhr, an experienced investment banker to boost M&A and capital markets projects. Until recently Muhr was a Vice President at Citi and before that at Goldman Sachs. Muhr’s hiring is said to… Read More

February 18, 2016 @ 8:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Moscow-based Finstar Financial Group has acquired a controlling stake (51%) in Prestamos Prima. According to the company, Prestamos Prima has been operating in the non-bank lending and alternative finance market, specifically Spain, since 2012. Prestamos Prima operates Viventor, a peer to peer investing platform open… Read More

October 21, 2015 @ 11:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Latvian-based marketplace lender, Twino, which opened in May of this year and had just reached one million euros of investment, announced this month that it is launching an expansion throughout Europe into markets that are new for the P2P industry. Now, Twino investors will have… Read More

September 24, 2015 @ 8:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Particeep, a white label crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform, has partnered with NUMA Moscow to power its accelerator program for Russian startups. Paris-based Particeep is a suite of applications including crowdfunding and collaboration management.  As internet finance starts to dominate the early stage funding, Particeep can allow its… Read More

July 24, 2015 @ 9:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CarPrice, an online used car broker and auctioneer based out of Russia, announced that it closed $40 million in Series B funding led by Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund V, with additional participation from Almaz Capital and other investors. The funding will be used to… Read More

March 11, 2015 @ 9:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Russian journal and founder/editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Newspaper, Vladimir Yakovlev, turned to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter with a brand new project that will hopefully improve the media in his country. Explaining details about the campaign, Yakovlev stated: “Russia today is torn by hatred caused by a… Read More

February 17, 2015 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to find an alternative to the four small mosques in Moscow, a group of Russian Muslims has launched a Boomstarter initiative to raise 850,000 for a mobile mosque. Explaining details about the project, the campaign’s organizer Alsou Hafiz shared that the two million Muslims in… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 5:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Claims of Russian Interference and Death Threats as Campaign is Re-Launched on Areal web site. Just a few days after Kickstarter pulled the plug on the bizarre crowdfunding campaign for West Games’ Areal, the video gaming studio reveals even more drama has been involved in… Read More

March 21, 2014 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We reported on the GoBe last week as the campaign was crossing $300,000 on Indiegogo. The campaign seeks to fund a new activity tracker that promises some really slick functionality, including the ability to read calories burned during exercise based on glucose levels in our cells…. Read More