Pianity is a music NFT platform - built on environmentally-conscious Arweave technology - where musicians and their community gather to create, sell, buy and collect songs in limited editions.
P2P-Banking.com has released international lending volumes for July; Zopa topped the list with originations of EUR119.6 million ($USD141.9 million) for the month; report includes a number of milestones including cumulative lending of GBP2.5 billion ($3.28 billion) for Zopa and GBP2 billion ($2.63 billion) for RateSetter; the report does not include data from US P2P lending platforms. Source
One quarter into 2022 and earnings from top fintech public companies are not pretty: regardless of revenue, prices crashed.
Over the last couple of years we have seen something of a converge between payments and credit businesses. We have...
A new fintech named Twig has launched in the UK with the aim to allow customers to turn their unwanted possessions into instant cash.
The biggest electronic music festival in Europe, Tomorrowland has partnered with FTX Europe, a cryptocurrency exchange, to create new digital Web3 experiences and NFTs.
Several Indian business leaders spoke out against what they believe is their government’s overly cautious approach to cryptocurrency regulation. They made the comments during the Mumbai Micro Experience of Fintech Festival India 2021-22. Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, a member of the Governing Council of RBI (Reserve Bank
The UK based online real estate platform raised a £7mn ($9.2mn) series A round led by Berlin Hyp; in addition to the capital infusion Berlin Hyp struck a strategic partnership with BrickVest; the deal will allow BrickVest to continue building their technology, growing their investor network and increase dealflow. Source.
Swiss fintech company Numbrs has blamed jealous banks for killing off its original business model as a third-party provider of financial products. So it has reinvented itself under the banner of the ultimate bank killer – bitcoin.
UK Small business lender Funding Circle attempts to simplify the investment process by removing manual bidding in favor of a two tiered autobid process; the two autobid accounts will be: balanced with a targeted return of 7.5% and conservative with a targeted return of 4.8%; UK Managing Director James Meekings tells AltFi: "These changes will make lending at Funding Circle simpler, better, fairer. We want to create a level playing field for all investors and ensure everyone has the same opportunity to lend to UK businesses."; the changes were in response to individual investors "gaming" the system and not allowing the passive investors access to higher return loans which are very popular; according to AltFi this is a trend in in the industry with other platforms, including Zopa in May, moving to this process. Source