Brief: Fintech Company Fluent Rebrands As Hijro & Announces Blockchain Trade Asset Marketplace

Fluent, a financial operating network for global trade, announced on Thursday it has rebranded to Hijro and unveiled its new Trade Asset Marketplace. The company revealed the rebranding represents the...

Card Game “Bears vs. Babies” to Finish Kickstarter Round With More Than $3.1M in Funds

Bears vs Babies, the hilarious card game created by the Exploding Kittens creators Elan Lee and Matthew Inman, is set to capture more than $3.1 million on funds from its Kickstarter campaign, whic...

B2B Crowdfunding Startup Community Funded Raises $1.81M During Seed Round

Community Funded, a B2B crowdfunding startup, announced on Thursday it has secured $1.81 million during a Series Seed round. The company reported it had a strong venture capital participation, which ...

Goldman Sachs Introduces First Advertising Campaign Aimed Towards The Masses (Video)

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has launched its first advertising campaign that is aiming towards those in need of getting out of their credit card debt and looking for a fixed-rate, lower-cost personal loa...

KissKissBankBank Gives Crowdfunding its First Bricks & Mortar Home in the Heart of Paris

Today, KissKissBankBank & Co, the French brand which operates three crowdfunding platforms, rewards-based platform KissKissBankBank, interest-free lending platform hellomerci and crowdlending plat...

Fitness Center DiR Links with Crowdcube Spain to Open Mallorca Location: Exercise in Paradise

With 30 days remaining on its Crowdcube Spain campaign, the Barcelona fitness center chain DiR founded by CEO Ramon Canela in 1979 is going strong. Over 40% of the 360,000€ has been reached, just ...

Update: Friends & Brgrs Closes Invesdor Campaign Early After Securing Nearly €1M

Less than a month after launching its equity crowdfunding campaign on Invesdor, restaurant brand Friends & Brgrs has finished its funding round early ( the original closing date was December 20t...

Kickstarter Alum Particle Secures $10.4M During Series A Funding Round

On Thursday, a prototype-to-production platform for developing an Internet of Things (IoT) product and Kickstarter alum, Particle, announced it has secured $10.4 million during a Series A funding rou...

KPMG/CB Insights Report: Fintech VC Investments Drop for Second Consecutive Quarter

After quarterly fintech investment to VC-backed companies peaked as high as US$5B+ in 2015, investors continue to take a much more cautious approach this year, according to the Pulse of Fintech, the q...

SETL, Deloitte & Metro Bank Initiate Blockchain Smartcard Payment System

SETL, Deloitte and Metro Bank have successfully demonstrated a contactless blockchain smartcard retail payment system for 100 customers of the UK-based challenger bank, according to a release. The pr...

Fintecher Siirto Aligns Top Finnish Banks for Mobile Real-Time Payment

Siirto, a new Finnish fintech platform designed and implemented by Tieto on behalf of Automatia. The real-time multi-bank mobile payment platform was launched in Finland by three of the country’...

Brief: P2P Lender ThinCats Becomes NACFB Patron

P2P lending platform ThinCats, which recently passed £200m milestone in loans issued to UK SMEs, has joined become an NACFB patron seeking to provide a direct link with member brokers who demonstra...

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