The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is one of a dozen or so federal agencies that has regulatory oversight on financial institutions. Financial innovation or Fintech is challenging lon...

San Francisco fintech company, Ripple, announced on Tuesday it has appointed president and chief operating officer, Brad Garlinghouse, as its new CEO. Former CEO, Chris Larsen will be stepped down fro...

In France, owning a vineyard is every successful person’s dream. Now WineFunding, the first crowdfunding platform dedicated to the wine industry, makes this dream accessible to you and me. Wine afic...

Classy, a cloud-based fundraising platform that helps nonprofits and social enterprises mobilize and empower communities, announced on Tuesday it raised $30 million during its Series C funding round, ...

On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced the launch of its new live video and real-time community engagement feature, Kickstarter Live. The funding portal revealed the feature was built in collaboration wi...

This week, craft brewer Innis & Gunn announced the launch of its AdventureCapital campaign on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Edinburgh-based company is currently seeking £1 million to op...

UK research firm Beauhurst is out with their Q3 report on equity investment  in non-listed UK firms. The authoris state that equity funding rounds continues to fall delivering three consecutive quart...

On Monday, Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), announced it has appointed Mitch Shue to chief technology officer and James Rhodes to chief data officer. The company also reported that it has expanded i...

As expected, the HM Treasury has announced that big banks must now pass on the details of SMEs rejected for loans to three finance platforms: Funding Xchange, Funding Options and Business Finance Comp...

Manchester based Racefields has launched a free peer to peer loan finder designed to aid businesses in their search for an appropriate loan. Racefields states that unlike other loan comparison sites w...

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has announced the creation of the first digital health fund labeled OurCrowd Qure.  OurCrowd has partnered with Johns Hopkins University in the creati...

Launched in Barcelona’s Gràcia neighborhood during the summer of 2014 by Venezuelan friends Alejandro Bringas and Juan Lattuf who met working while catering, Chive’s mission is to p...