Filippo Loretti co-founders and brothers Danielius and Mates Jakutis launched their Kickstarter campaign on 17 November, quickly securing over €200K from the crowd in 24 hours.  With a few hours r...

As legislation changes and technology advances, peer-to-peer fundraising is developing as a fundraising tool in the nonprofit world. These developments can pose interesting challenges for nonprofits, ...

Consumer finance technology group, Kreditech, announced on Thursday it received a €10 million equity investment from Rakuten, Inc. The company stated it plans to use the new funds to further develop...

Yello Financial Group, a Korean fintech company backed by Formation Group, announced a corporate name change to DAYLI Financial Group (“DFG”). In less than two years since founding, the company la...

EstateGuru, a peer to peer lender based in Estonia, announced on Thursday its average historic return reached the level 13.4% (since December 2014), which the platform claims to be the highest return...

LendIt, the global lending and fintech conference series, today announced its partnership with 500 Startups for PitchIt 2017, a leading global competition for fintech startups who can earn mentorship,...

Maven Capital Partners (Maven), a UK-based private equity firm, announced on Thursday it completed a £1.1 million investment in developer and operator of specialist online investment and capital crow...

Duco, a global fintech platform that provides data control services, today announced a new agreement with Currencycloud, an international payments engine. Currencycloud will use Duco Cube, a self-ser...

The Money Platform has launched in the UK.  The Money Platform is a peer to peer lender that targets short term credit of 3 to 12 weeks. After participating in the FCA’s Project Innovate incubator ...

London-based AlliedCrowds is preparing to launch its P2P service AlliedExchange soon as it has begun the search for a new Managing Director.  AlliedCrowds/AlliedExchange is backed and funded by F...

Troubadour Goods, a London-based menswear fashion brand, is nearing its £500,000 crowdfunding campaign funding target on Seedrs. The company launched the initiative earlier this month and so far ha...

The time has come for crowdfunding to mature – or die, and be reabsorbed by the body politic (or should that be that body corporate). You don’t hear people talk about “the democratisation of...