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Dubai's DFSA launches crowdfunding framework

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has today launched its regulatory framework for loan and investment-based crowdfunding platforms, the first such framework in the GCC countries.

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Assetz Capital releases API

Financial services companies such as banks and money management apps can now offer their customers the option to manage their investment in peer-to-peer lending, with the launch of Assetz Capital-as-a-Service (ACaaS).

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Orca releases P2P investment rating tool

Orca, one of the leading independent data, research and analysis providers on the UK peer-to-peer lending market has today announced its plans to launch its own four-factor rating service for individual P2P providers, the Orca Rating.

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Blockchain-based crowdfunder Waves joins Microsoft Azure

Waves, a Russian-made crowdfunding platform, is now available in the Microsoft cloud.

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Seedrs to launch secondary market

Today, leading equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs announced a pioneering move for the sector with the launch of a secondary market this summer.

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First secondary share trade completed on Crowdcube platform

Mettrr Technologies has become the first company to provide financial returns for its crowd investors through a secondary share sale via a crowdfunding platform.

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OpenLedger supports Apptrade crowdsale with $100,000 boost

OpenLedger’s Apptrade, the platform creating “Kickstarter for Apps on the Blockchain”, has received a $100,000 USD boost from OpenLedger ApS, the world's first blockchain powered conglomerate.

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Crowdfunding outperforms private equity in 2016

In a new report ‘The Deal 2016’ released today by research agency Beauhurst, showed that crowdfunding had outperformed private equity with investment into non-listed high growth companies in the UK.

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ECrowd! raises more than €300K in second round of funding

The debt crowdfunding - also known as crowdlending- platform ECrowd!, specializing in sustainable investments, has closed an investment round of € 307,900 through the online investment platform Crowdcube (equity crowdfunding).

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P2BInvestor raises $7.7 million

P2Binvestor (P2Bi), a marketplace lender that provides growing businesses with debt capital through a crowdfunding model, announced today that it has raised $7.7 Million in Series A1 funding led by Rockies Venture Club (RVC), the largest angel investor network in Colorado and Future Venture Capital Co., Ltd. (FVC), a Japanese venture capital firm with its US subsidiary, FVC Americas.

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LendingCrowd celebrates full FCA authorisation

LendingCrowd, one of the UK’s fastest-growing alternative finance lenders to the SME market, has received full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - making it the UK’s second P2P platform and first P2P lender to SMEs to move from interim to full authorisation status.

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Scottish Invesment Bank enters alternative finance market with LendingCrowd

LendingCrowd, one of the UK’s fastest-growing alternative finance lenders to the SME market, has partnered with the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB), the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, in an initiative that will see £2.75 million invested in Scottish SMEs across the LendingCrowd platform.

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United Nations tackles blockchain and crowdfunding in Alternative Finance Lab

Ten months ago we had an eclectic group of people introduce a slew of new financial mechanisms - blockchain based cash transfers and impact bonds for reducing recidivism to forecast based finance for disasters and peer to peer lending for SMEs - emerging into what the ODI calls a new ‘age of choice’ for the development finance.

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Crowdcube ships iOS app

Crowdcube has launched version 1.0 of the Crowdcube App to provide investors with easy access to all investment opportunities available on the crowdfunding platform and allow people to dip in and out when they have a moment.

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SwissLending launches real estate crowdlending platform

SwissLending, a new player within the FinTech ecosystem and the first crowdfunding platform in Switzerland specializing in loans for real estate professionals, is officially launched this week in Geneva.

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Huddlestock raises $1.5 million in seed funding

Huddlestock, the patented crowd-trading platform that gives users “super-powers” and lets them tap into investment ideas and strategies usually only available to professional investment managers, has closed a groundbreaking seed round, raising over $1.5 million.

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Invesdor and Signicat aid Cloud Solutions crowdfunding

Norwegian FinTech company, Cloud Solutions which develops Cloud Insurance a software-as-a-service for the insurance industry, has become the first ever Norwegian equity crowdfunding success using Finland-based Invesdor’s crowdfunding platform.

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Crowdcube raises over £8 million in growth capital

More than 3,700 crowd investors, alongside prominent venture capital firm Balderton Capital, have collectively invested over £8 million in growth capital for Crowdcube, the UK’s leading equity crowdfunding platform.

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Fintech leader unveils growth plans as part of bid to raise more than £5 million on its platform

The UK’s leading equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, today unveiled plans to pioneer secondary liquidity and offer more investment opportunities in venture and growth-stage businesses as it moves to accelerate potential investor returns.

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Crowdcube issues prospectus for latest crowd funding round

The UK’s leading investment crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, today invites the UK public to register for early access to its latest round of funding.