Everybody’s Doing It: Bank Indonesia to Launch Fintech Regulatory Sandbox

Bank Indonesia (BI) recently announced 5 new initiatives regarding the payment system – a hot sector of financial services. Within these five strategic objects was Financial Technology or Fintec...

3rd Time Not a Charm: Crowdfunded Company Will Liquidate as Most Recent Project Fails

Hidden Radio was an early Kickstarter success. Co-founded by John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen and Vitor Santa Maria their very first rewards project raised over $930,000 for a stylish blue-tooth connected...

EY Gets Caught Up in Failed P2P Lender Jinxing Investments

Shanghai Daily is reporting that global consultancy EY has gotten sucked into the collapse of peer to peer lender Jinxing Investments. According to the report, the Shanghai offices of EY has endured s...

An Inside Look at Legion M Investment Crowdfunding Success

Legion M is one of the early success stories of Reg CF investment crowdfunding. Legion M raised $1 million on Wefunder with the backing of over 3,000 individual investors – the most ever for a s...

Fundera: Online Lenders Need to Get Serious About Disclosure

Fundera is an online platform that streamlines the borrowing process. They have integrated a diverse group of online lenders to allow small businesses the ability to apply on one site and receive offe...

UK’s Gower Brewery Launches Crowdcube Initiative: Seeks £350,000 to Expand Keg Products

This week, UK-based Gower Brewery took to equity crowdfunding portal Crowdcube to raise £350,000 as it prepares to expand its keg products. The brewery has sold more than 700,000 pints of beer acro...

More Than Three Weeks to Go: Figet Cube Nears $5M on Kickstarter

With 25 more days until its Kickstarter comes to an end, Fidget Cube is on its way to attracting $5 million in funding. The vinyl desk toy hit the reward-based crowdfunding portal last month and score...

Financial Services Innovation Act of 2016 (Deck)

Congressman Patrick McHenry announced new legislation this week created to improve financial innovation in the US. Unlike some other countries, financial service firms are mandated to follow rules enf...

Here is the Legislation Designed to Promote Fintech in the US

Yesterday Crowdfund Insider wrote about forthcoming legislation from Congressman Patrick McHenry that is designed to enhance Fintech innovation in the US. Today we have a copy of the draft bill, embed...

Finovate Celebrates 10th Anniversary Show in NYC

FinovateFall celebrated its 10th anniversary this last week with a two-day show on September 8-9, 2016 in New York City. The show featured demos from 72 companies presenting a diverse range of Fintech...

Brief: Crowdfunding Platform Tilt Launches New Hosting Event Feature

Last week, crowdfunding platform Tilt announced the launch of its new event hosting feature, Ticketing With Tilt. Co-founder and CEO of Tilt, James Beshara, stated Ticketing With Tilt gives users the ...

Ripple Announces: Major Banks Team Up to Launch Blockchain Payments Network

San Francisco fintech company, Ripple, announced on Friday that six major have teamed up to launch a new blockchain network on distributed financial technology. Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Santande...

Load More >