California fintech firm, InvestCloud announced on Monday it acquired London-based Babel Systems for $20 million. This news comes just a few months after JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) announce...

Just a little over a year after securing $100 million, Star Citizen from Roberts Space Industries an addition $41 million in funding from well over 1.7 million backers. Back in November of 2012, the...

Peer to peer lending platform Wellesley has been crowdfunding on Seedrs for almost a month to raise £1.5M (approximately $1.82M). The campaign is currently restricted to Wellesley customers so a bit ...

AlliedCrowds announced on Monday its 2016 recap and its priorities for the 2017 fiscal year. This information comes less than a month after the company unveiled plans to launch its very own peer-to-pe...

Marcus, Goldman Sach’s (NYSE:GS) foray into the universe of online lending, launched late last year. The catch was you had to be “invited” to take out a loan. Management was clearly...

On Monday, Verint Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT) announced that Chinese fintech firm CreditEase, is set to use is Verint’s Speech Analytics, along with Call Recording, and Quality Management, a...

Predicting what will transpire in the coming year is always challenging, particularly in relatively nascent and growing industries such as marketplace lending. While surprises are undoubtedly in store...

Marketplace lending platform, China Rapid Finance, announced on Sunday it has teamed up with Tencent’s wealth management platform, Licaitong, to provide new investment products for individual inves...

With less than two weeks until its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube comes to an end, beauty advisory service, MyShowcase, has successfully secured its initial £750,000 funding target thanks...

Peer to peer lending platform Octopus Choice has received full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority. Octopus Choice is part of Octopus Investments. The company said the FCA approval wa...

Kellerhhof International Sdn Bhd led RE/MAX Malaysia‘s equity crowdfunding campaign over the past month to aim to raise MYR 200,000 (approximately $45,000).  The campaign on CrowdPlus.asia fini...

  Each year, Crowdfund Beat Media Group assesses the landscape of the crowdfunding industry to identify thought leaders and individuals significantly impacting the evolution of digital finance. ...