December 21, 2018 @ 10:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

IronX, a cryptocurrency exchange joint venture between IronFX Group and EmurgoHK, announced on Friday it has launched the beta version of its crypto platform, which coincides with its IRX token sale. This news comes just a few months after IronX secured regulatory approval from the Estonian Financial Intelligence… Read More

December 21, 2018 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech startup Suretly has formed a joint venture (JV) with payments platform QPAGOS. A new entity will be formed called Suretly Mexico to develop Suretly’s “crowdvouching” solution for microloans in Mexico. Suretely explains crowdvouching as: The practice of financially securing a loan repayment by vouching monetary… Read More

December 21, 2018 @ 9:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Coinbase announced on Thursday it is expanding to six additional European markets. The online cryptocurrency platform now operates in 33 countries across the globe. Speaking about the expansion, Coinbase reported: “New customers in these markets will be able to make full use of Coinbase.com and our iOS… Read More

December 21, 2018 @ 9:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

TicketGuardian, an insurtech startup that’s aiming to shake up the ‘no refunds’ standard of live events ticketing, announced this week it has secured $8 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by American Family Ventures and IA Capital Group. Founded in 2016, TicketGuardian is an… Read More

December 21, 2018 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

TD Bank announced on Friday it has released a progress report on advancing towards a transition to a low-carbon economy in North America. The banking group also reported it secured CAD$22 billion during its first year. In December 2017, TD set a target of a total of CAD$100 billion in… Read More

December 21, 2018 @ 7:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Kathy Kraninger was sworn in as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on December 10, 2018, following another acrimonious round of Senate hearings. Kraninger, an experienced Congressional staffer and longtime DC veteran, has made the Bureau’s name and ongoing confusion surrounding its label as… Read More

December 21, 2018 @ 7:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Property Partner is reporting gains of up to 43% for investors in two properties. The company says the sale of the properties are the first assets to be sold by Property Partner since it launched as a property investment platform in January 2015. The first property, a one-bedroom… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 10:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) announced on Thursday Alipay is now available on its Albert touchscreen devices. CBA claims it will become the first major bank to provide Alipay to customers in store and with nearly 900 million users choosing to pay for goods and… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 10:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BBVA and the European Investment Bank Group (EIB) announced on Thursday they have signed a synthetic securitization of €1 billion. According to the duo, this agreement is an innovative financing operation and it is claimed the first synthetic securitization to be supported by blockchain technology in the European Union (EU)… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 6:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Merry Christmas, Xinja. In January of 2018, Xinja became the first retail equity crowdfunding offer in Australia following an update to rules. Xinja, a digital challenger bank, went on to raise $2.4 million in a solid “proof of concept” offering that was part of larger… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 3:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

CREST or Commercial Real Estate Security Tokens is a new initiative created by the Security Token Academy. The idea of taking a hard asset class like property and tokenizing it has become a hot topic of discussion in the digital asset sector. Real estate, unlike… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 3:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CoinNess, an Asian cryptocurrency and blockchain information provider, announced on Thursday it is launching a new global growth partner program, called the CNNS Partner Program. The company also reported it will invest $5 million in order to build an international crypto investors’ community, with all the funds going towards rewarding CNNS… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 1:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CommonBond, an online lending platform servicing the student loan market,  announced on Thursday it has completed another securitization of $399.2 million in total loans. According to CommonBond, the securitization received AAA ratings from Moody’s and DBRS. The transaction was the lender’s eighth and brings its total securitized loan… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 1:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdProperty, a UK based peer to peer property lender, reports that it has now paid out more than £1,000,000 in interest to lenders. In a total, £12,000,000 has been returned to investors including principle. CrowdProperty states that it has continued an unblemished record of returning… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 1:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) subsidiary Medici Land Governance, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Teton County in Wyoming to provide a blockchain-based land records and information platform. Medici Land Governance is just one of many blockchain initiatives that Overstock is currently pursuing. According to the… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

eToroX, a subsidiary of eToro, has been granted a distributed ledger technology (Dlicenseence from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). eToro is a multi-asset trading platform that combines more traditional asset classes such as equities with crypto assets. eToro is regulated in Europe by the… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Abundance, an investment crowdfunding platform and leading “peer-to-peer ethical investment platform,” has closed its equity crowdfunding round on Seedrs. Abundance states that it originally looked to raise £1.2 million from investors but ended the offer overfunded at £1,575,586. The share offering valued Abundance at £16.6 million pre-money. Abundance… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 8:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Video game creator Atari announced earlier this week it has entered into a license agreement with Animoca Brands Limited to produce and publish blockchain versions of the popular mobile games RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch and Goon Squad. According to Atari, RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch has more than 19… Read More

December 20, 2018 @ 7:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

OnDeck (NYSE: ONDK), a small business online lending platform, announced on Wednesday it is set to offer equipment finance loans to select U.S. small businesses next year, bringing its technology and digital lending expertise to what it believes has traditionally been a slow-moving, opaque, and… Read More