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Falcon Group cements Sydney presence with permanent base

Falcon Group, one of the world’s largest trade and corporate finance specialists, has today announced its move to a new permanent office in the heart of Sydney’s Central Business District (CBD) – reaffirming their commitment to specialist financing in the Australian and New Zealand region.

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B2B commercial financing startup Compeon closes EUR12 million Series B investment round

COMPEON, German market leader among digital platforms for commercial financing, has received 12 million euro from its existing investors in a Series B financing.

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US to raise crowdfunding ceiling to $5 million in regulatory shake-up

Today the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report detailing how to streamline and reform the U.S. regulatory system for the capital markets.

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Navient acquires online student lender Earnest for $155 m,illion

Navient, a leading provider of asset management and business processing solutions, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Earnest, a leading financial technology and education finance company.

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Julian Cassen joins MarketInvoice from RBS Invoice Finance

Business finance company MarketInvoice, has today announced the appointment of Julian Cassen as Senior Business Development Manager.

Zopa bids to attract more borrowers with Saffron Building Society tie-up

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Zopa bids to attract more borrowers with Saffron Building Society tie-up

P2P lender Zopa is to offer loans to customers of Saffron Building Society via 11 brick-and-mortar branches and online.

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Singapore crowd-funding platform launches chatbot

Funding Societies, Singapore’s and Southeast Asia’s leading crowdfunding platform, has announced the launch of its chatbot Miyu.

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FinEx Asia closes $50 million investment in Prosper Marketplace

FinEX Asia is pleased to announce that its private equity fund manager closed an investment of US$50 million in Prosper Marketplace, a U.S. online marketplace lending platform for consumer loans.

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UK businesses turning to alternative finance

Business finance company MarketInvoice conducted a survey of UK businesses on their awareness and adoption of fintech (financial technology) products and services.

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Australia ranked as the second largest alternative finance market in the Asia Pacific

New research showing Australia has risen to become the second largest alternative finance market in the Asia Pacific sends a strong signal to the world about the underlying strength of Australia’s fintech and business environment.

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Colnvestor partners with leading cohort of fund managers ahead of peak tax season

CoInvestor, the alternative assets platform, has partnered with five major fund managers in the run-up to the height of the tax season.

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BMW invites startups to join Innovation Lab

BMW Group UK has announced the launch of the BMW Innovation Lab 2018. The new programme builds upon the success of the inaugural Lab in 2016, which saw four out of five incubated startups succeed in building ongoing relationships with the company’s UK commercial operations.

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Russian lending startup SimpleFinance wins investment from SBI fintech fund

SF Holdings Company Plc, parent of MCC SimpleFinance LLC (“SimpleFinance” or the “Company”), a Russian fintech company providing accessible lending to small and medium-sized business, has completed its debut equity fundraising, with an investment from the SBI FinTech Business Innovation Fund LPS (the “SBI FinTech Fund” or the “Fund”).

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FinTech Australia hails equity crowdfunding rule changes

FinTech Australia has welcomed significant changes to draft legislation allowing private companies to crowdfund equity, which will ensure investors are protected while at the same time delivering reduced costs and red tape for companies.

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SoFi CEO steps down over 'HR-related litigation and negative press'

Our co-founder and CEO Mike Cagney sent the following message to SoFi employees this evening:

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ABN Amro invests in Cloud Lending Solutions

ABN AMRO has invested in the innovative FinTech company Cloud Lending Solutions Inc. (CLS).

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Sharpfin turns to the Investdor crowd for new funding round

Sharpfin AB, a Stockholm-based company developing the next generation of wealth management software, partners with leading Nordic equity crowdfunding platform Invesdor to raise funding.

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The Start Up Loans Company joins RBS alternative finance panel

The Start Up Loans Company will join a handful of leading alternative finance firms in an exclusive partnership with a NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland programme designed to help businesses access alternative sources of finance.

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MarketInvoice extends lending platform to more businesses

Business finance company MarketInvoice has opened the doors to more than 400,000 smaller businesses accessing a whole ledger confidential invoice discounting service, which has previously been the preserve of larger businesses, by easing the annual turnover criteria.

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Jeff Kelisky succeeds Seedrs co-founder Jeff Lyn as CEO

Seedrs, the leading equity crowdfunding platform, announced today that it has promoted Jeff Kelisky as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective today. Kelisky, who joined the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO) in January 2017, succeeds co-founder Jeff Lynn as CEO.

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