Orca Claims Cryptocurrency to Fiat Withdrawal Speed of Less than 6 Seconds
Everyone knows that it can take some time to move your cryptocurrency around, depending on the coin. It can take even longer to exchange your crypto for cash – as in US dollars. Sure, there are plenty...
View ArticleEuropean Online Lender 4finance Appoints Oyvind Oanes as New CEO
4finance Group S.A., one of the largest online lenders in Europe, has appointed Oyvind Oanes as Group CEO. Oanes will step into the role on August 1, 2018 succeeding current CEO Mark Ruddock, who will...
View ArticleNew Milestone: Latvian P2P Lender Robo.Cash Facilitates $40M+ Lending
European P2P platform Robo.cash, which offers automated investments in the portfolio of the lending companies, has reportedly facilitated funding of half a million loans totaling over €40 million on...
View ArticleORCA Alliance Easily Raises First ICO Stage of $1.5 Million for Crypto...
ORCA Alliance is reporting that its initial coin offering (ICO) easily raised its $1.5 million target in just 50 hours. The Latvia based Fintech is building an “Open Banking” platform seeks to enable...
View ArticleCrypto Startup Orca Partners with MisterTango on SEPA Payments
Fintech Orca has signed a partnership with MisterTango. Orca wants to be a bridge between crypto and traditional finance or “one app to build your own bank.” MisterTango is a payments platform. The...
View ArticleLatvian Fintech Mintos Surpasses €1 Billion Milestone in Loans Funded
Mintos, an online marketplace for loans, has topped € 1 billion in total loans funded after three and a half years of operation. During 2018, Mintos says platform velocity has increased with €500...
View ArticleBaltic Honey Badger Bitcoin Conference Closes with Heavyweight Panel
The Baltic Honey Badger Conference of 2018, held this year in Riga, Latvia, wrapped up today with a panel featuring Adam Back, the CEO of Blockstream, Giacomo Zucco, CEO at BHB Network; Tone Vays, a...
View ArticleVranova and Zucco Announce Creation of Bitcoin “B Foundation”
Bitcoin entrepreneurs Alena Vranova and Giacomo Zucco announced today that they are creating a foundation to help Bitcoin, an automated, autonomous payment network invented in 2009, compete with...
View ArticleP2P Lending Marketplace Mintos Partners with Payments Company Trustly
Mintos, an online marketplace for peer to peer loans for retail investors, has partnered with European payments Fintech Trustly. Founded in 2008, Trustly Group AB is a Swedish Fintech firm. Mintos will...
View ArticleRussian Online Lender MFC Zaymer Joins Robo.cash
Automated peer to peer platform Robo.cash has issued a note saying Russian microfinance company MFC Zaymer is joining their platform. The company operates Zaymer.ru that offers short-term (payday)...
View ArticleOnline Marketplace for Loans Mintos Raises €5 Million Series A, Becomes More...
Mintos, an online marketplace for loans, has just announced a € 5 million Series A funding round. As part of the announcement, Latvia-based Mintos is entering the stealth bank realm by moving to...
View ArticleFintech Mintos Surpasses €2 Billion in Funding, Launches Mintos Impact Fund
A report from Mintos, an online marketplace for investments in loans, states they have topped €2 billion in funding. Mintos CEO and co-Founder Martins Sulte commented that hitting the €2 billion...
View ArticlePeer to Peer Lender Viainvest Announces One Interest Rate for All Loan...
Peer to peer lender Viainvest has circulated an email indicating they have established “one interest rate for all loan originators.” Currently, the interest rate is pegged at 11%. Viainvest, part of...
View ArticleP2P Lender Viventor Selects Andrius Bolšaitis as CEO as Toms Niparts Exits to...
Last week, peer to peer lender Viventor selected Andrius Bolšaitis as the new CEO of the online lender. In a release, the company said previous CEO Toms Niparts was departing the firm to start a new,...
View ArticleMarketplace for P2P Loans Mintos Tops €3 Billion in Loans Financed
Mintos, an online marketplace that aggregates 65 lending companies, is reporting having topped €3 billion in loans financed. The €2 billion hurdle was surpassed in April thus it appears that Mintos is...
View ArticleOnline Lender TWINO Group Tops €1 billion in Originated Loans, Appoints New...
TWINO Group, a European peer to peer lending platform, has topped €1 billion in originated loans, according to a company release. Launched in Latvia in 2009, TWINO reports half of the billion Euros in...
View ArticleReal Estate Crowdfunding Platform EstateGuru Partners with Ober-Haus on...
Real estate crowdfunding platform EstateGuru and OberHaus, real estate agency operating across the Baltic region, have joined together to produce shared real estate market research and analysis with a...
View ArticlePeer to Peer Lending Viainvest Adds Small Business Loans to its Platform
ViaInvest, a peer to peer lender based in Latvia, has added small business loans to its platform. In an email, ViaInvest states: “We are thrilled to inform you, that ViaInvest has expanded its product...
View ArticleOnline Lenders Twino and Via SMS Partner to Enter Asia Pacific Market
Twino and Via SMS, two Latvia based online lending platforms, are joining forces to enter the Asia-Pacific market, according to a release. The two companies are launching a consumer lending platform...
View ArticleBlack Eye: Estonia Hit by Shuttered P2P Investment Platforms, Impacted...
Last month, Crowdfund Insider reported on two debt-based investment platforms based in Estonia closing their doors leaving investors with many questions and apparently no money. Envestio tweeted that...
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