Brief: YouCaring Announces “10 Most Compassionate Cities” of 2016 As Part of #GivingTuesday Festivities

With #GivingTuesday less than two weeks away, crowdfunding platform YouCaring announced the 10 Most Compassionate Cities of 2016. This list is based on total donations raised per 100,000 households, ...

Brief: P2P Lender Monexo Announces New Auto-Invest Feature

Hong Kong-based peer-to-peer lending platform Monexo announced this week plans to launch an “auto invest” feature on its platform. Sharing details about the new feature, CEO of Monexo, Mukesh Bubn...

Seedrs Publishes its Winter Update. Revisits Platform Wide IRR of 14.4%

Investment crowdfunding platform Seedrs has published its Portfolio Update Winter 2016/2017.  The digital document, which is available for download here, is in response to a report published in Septe...

Here is the MAS Response to Feedback for the Fintech Sandbox Guidelines

While the UK has been the trailblazer in the creation of the concept of a regulatory Sandbox for innovative financial firms, the rest of the world has seen the light and moving forward with their own ...

Report: Renaud Laplanche Preps to Launch Online Lender Credify

Renaud Laplanche, the visionary behind Lending Club (NYSE:LC) who was pushed out of the marketplace lender this past May, is prepping a new online lender: Credify Finance Corp. WSJ.com is reporting th...

Fintech Startup investFeed Raises More Than Half of Its $1M Funding Target on Crowdfunder

investFeed, a fintech startup that provides a transparent social investment network, has successfully secured more than half of its $1 million funding target through Crowdfunder. The company launched ...

Fitness Platform WeTRAIN Seeks £600,000 During Seedrs Campaign

Last week, fitness platform WeTRAIN launched its equity crowdfunding on Seedrs, with a mission to raise £600,000. The app launched earlier this summer and successfully rolled out its platform in thr...

Goldman Sachs, Pivot Investment Partners & Wells Fargo Invest $16 Million in Fintech Company Droit

New York-based Fintech firm Droit Financial Technologies secured a $16 million in Series A investments earlier this month from Goldman Sachs, Pivot Investment Partners, and Wells Fargo. Principal tra...

FinTech Australia Receives $200,000 Funding Grant From Federal Treasury

FinTech Australia, a national association for the Australian FinTech Startup community, announced earlier this month it received a $200,000 funding grant from the Federal Treasury. This news comes ju...

Innis & Gunn’s Crowdcube Success Continues: Craft Brewery Secures Over £1.5M in Funding

With less than two weeks until its highly successful equity crowdfunding campaign closes on Crowdcube, craft brewery Innis & Gunn has successfully raised more than £1.5 million from close to 1,3...

Unstacking the Deck Against SME’s in Washington: A Call for an SEC Small Business Advocate

With a new administration set to take the reins of power in the White House in January 2017, not to mention a new, Republican appointed Chair of the SEC in the offing, when it comes to the interests o...

NextGen Announces Crowdsource Awards Statue Contes for Crowdfunding Video Awards

Nearly two weeks after announcing its first series of online awards programs, the Crowdfunding Video Awards (CVAs), NextGen Crowdfunding announced the launch of a design competition to crowdsource an ...

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