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TGIF: More than Glasses Raising for The Aviary Cocktail Book’s Kickstarter Campaign

Depending on when your weekend starts, whether on Thursday night or Friday afternoon or the more traditional Friday evening, you may be tempted to have cocktails every night made with guidance of The...

FCA Inks Fintech Cooperation Agreement with Hong Kong

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has signed a co-operation agreement with the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong. The intent of the agreement is to encourage collaboration that ...

Indian Mobile Wallet Paytm Acquires FreeCharge, in Talks with SoftBank

Paytm is now in talks with SoftBank to raise up to $1.9 billion in fresh funding, hiking its value to a cool $8 billion or more, according to multiple new sources. Paytm counts over 218 million wall...

Contrarian Lending Marketplace Younited Credit Crosses €500 million Milestone

Since it opened for business in 2012, French lending startup Younited Credit has thrived by implementing strategic choices that ran contrary to common practice among lending marketplaces. It was the f...

Rapid Growth: Flexiti Team Adds COO Jerome Peeters & CRO Colin Franks

It’s been a busy few weeks for the Flexiti Financial team, having added its first Advisory Board Members, Diane Brisebois and Rick Padulo last month. The Toronto-based a provider of point-of...

Digital Marketer Ameria Nears 1.4M€ on Companisto Crowdfunding Campaign

Ameria, a German tech company which develops digital marketing and sales solutions for companies including HARIBO, MediaSaturn and Porsche has easily surpassed its original 700€K crowdfunding goal ...

Success: Women’s Clothing Brand Hope’s Crowdcube Campaign Overfunds

On Thursday, British womenswear fashion brand Hope surpassed its initial £500,000 funding target on equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. This news comes just a few day after the company announced...

Unbelievable: Weighted Blanket “Gravity” Surpasses $3 Million in Two Weeks on Kickstarter

Just two weeks after New York entrepreneur, John Florentino, launched a Kickstarter campaign for his weighted blanket, Gravity, the project scored $3 million from more than 15,000 backers. The initiat...

Sugru Set to Complete Latest Crowdcube Round With Over £1.8 Million in Funding

With its latest equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube set to close tomorrow (May 12th), moldable glue company Sugru has successfully secured over £1.8 million. The initiative made its debut in March...

China Rapid Finance Unveils Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option For the Purchase of Additional ADSs

On Thursday, peer-to-peer lender China Rapid Finance (NYSE: XRF) that the underwriters of its previously announced initial public offering (IPO) have exercised in full the option to purchase an additi...

Innovate Finance Seeks Support From UK Government & Political Parties For Fintech Election Pledge

Innovate Finance, the membership association for global fintech, announced on Thursday it sought support from UK Government, as well as political parties across the spectrum, to support its Fintech El...

RealtyShares Appoints Former CEO of Cushman & Wakefield Edward Forst As New Board of Directors Member

Real estate marketplace lending platform RealtyShares announced on Thursday that Edward Forst, former president and CEO of Cushman & Wakefield, was named the newest member of the company’s boa...