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Digital lender Credimi secures EUR10 million funding

Continental Europe’s largest-volume digital factoring platform* Credimi has received a 10 million euro capital increase from investment funds United Ventures SGR and Vertis SGR, as well as some of the investors who took part in the first round of 8.5 million euros in September 2015.

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EU parliament agress to lift crowdfunding limits

Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee voted on Monday on its position on common rules on the creation and functioning of European crowdfunding service providers for business.

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PayPal expands business financing programme into Germany

Today, PayPal is expanding its PayPal Working Capital program into Germany with PayPal Businesskredit.

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Draper Esprit leads £8.5 million investment in Crowdcube

Draper Esprit, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms, has taken a £6 million stake in Crowdcube, the global market leader in equity crowdfunding, to accelerate growth and continue its drive towards profitability in 2019.

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Securities Commission Malaysia to provide guidlines for property crowdfunding

We will be reviewing the details of the proposed structure and our Guidelines on Recognised Markets (RMO Guidelines) to facilitate the establishment of property crowdfunding platforms as announced in Budget 2019.

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Funding Options names Alastair Preacher as chief product officer

Funding Options today announced that Alastair Preacher has joined Funding Options as their new Chief Product Officer.

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Sberbank reports back on ICO financing trial

Sberbank and the National Settlement Depository (NSD) have summed up the results of a test deal to attract financing through an initial coin offering (ICO) using the Bank of Russia’s sandbox.

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Basware e-invoicing goes global

Basware (Nasdaq: BAS1V), the global leader in networked source-to-pay solutions, e-invoicing and innovative financing services, offers a global e-Invoice sending service to enable organisations to send 100% invoices electronically to all their customers – businesses, public sector clients and consumers.

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Funding Circle reports first quarter as a listed company

Funding Circle Holdings plc (“Funding Circle” or the “Company”), the leading small and medium enterprise (“SME”) loans platform in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands, today announces updates to its statistics pages for the three months ending 30 September 2018 (the “Quarter”) and selected highlights from the quarter.

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Rabobank venture fund invests in AgTech company ProducePay

Rabo Frontier Ventures (RFV), Rabobank’s strategic investment arm, invested in Agtech company ProducePay.

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Landbay selects Oracle NetSuite to accelerate growth of peer-to-peer mortgage lending

Fast-growing buy-to-let mortgage lender Landbay has chosen Oracle NetSuite to support its goal of creating a more accessible buy-to-let mortgage marketplace for investors, borrowers and brokers.

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Figure Technologies rolls out home equity loan platform

Figure Technologies, Inc. (FigureTM), a FinTech company creating innovative products and tools that empower homeowners to improve their finances, announced today its first product, the Figure Home Equity LoanPLUS.

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Trustly partners with European P2P marketplace Mintos

Trustly, the European payments company, has partnered with Mintos, a global online marketplace for loans which provides retail investors with a way to invest in loans from around the world.

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Social trading app Pelican returns to Seedrs for new funding round

Pelican, the only mobile first, multi-broker network regulated by the FCA, designed for retail traders and investors alike, has announced its latest funding round.

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Sandy Crombie joins LendingCrowd as chairman

Sir Sandy Crombie, a former CEO of Standard Life and Senior Independent Director at Royal Bank of Scotland, has joined the Board of LendingCrowd, Scotland’s only fintech lender, as Chairman.

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Digital remittance helps Kerala flood victims

Southeast Asia’s leading digital money transfer company, InstaReM, said that it has facilitated zero-fees international money transfers of nearly US$ 2,000,000 to the southern Indian state of Kerala, which experienced devastating floods last month.

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Prodigy Finance raises $1bn in debt financing

Prodigy Finance, the pioneer in cross-border finance, announces that it has raised US$1 billion in the last twelve months in available debt financing (“financing”).

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Ant Financial launches new fintech brand

Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial” or “the Company”) today announced that the Company would open up a full suite of technology products and services under a new brand, Ant Financial Technology, to support the growth of financial institutions by improving user experience and lowering costs.

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P2P investment aggregator Orca launches equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs

Orca announces that it is raising £500,000 on the crowdfunding platform, Seedrs. The funds raised will contribute to the business’s ambitious growth and expansion plans as it aims to realise its goal of becoming the hub for alternative lending.

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Belgian P2P platform Mozzeno raises EUR1 million

mozzeno.com has announced that it has raised €1,000,000 from new and former shareholders.