The Co-founder and Head of Business Development at SALT Lending introduces us to the world of asset-backed cryptocurrency lending. Source
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A Medium post outlines some of the most interesting players in real estate tech, also known as PropTech across the globe; Opendoor, PeerStreet, RealtyShares are just a few of the names making the list which covered companies in many different niches. Source
The bonds have a minimum investment of £2,000 and offer investors a 5.37% return per year until 2023; the offer will close at or before 12 pm on March 29th; Christian Faes, co-founder of LendInvest stated, “We are delighted to be coming back to the market so soon after the successful issue of our first oversubscribed bond in August 2017.” Source
The patent shares how a platform could be built on the blockchain which could generate credit ratings based on a borrower’s behavior; the system would also leverage more data sources than current credit rating systems and provide more transparency to borrowers on how scores are calculated. Source
- How Citizens Bank is reaching millennials
- Bank Fintech Partnership More Than Just a Good Idea
- Developing The Application of Anti-fraud Technology to Enhance Financial Risk Management
- Merchant Advance Capital Closes $30 Million Debt Facility
- ETHLend creates the first Fully Gamified and Decentralized Credit Profile
Monzo has added the first batch of partnerships to their marketplace by striking deals with digital wealth investment accounts and online lenders; companies include Scalable Capital, Wealthify, Wealthsimple, WiseAlpha, Zopa, Bricklane.com and Octopus Choice; Monzo will not be making a commission from any of these agreements; the company has also opened up an interim third-party API to comply with open banking regulations. Source.
Small business lender Fundbox believes their new credit and payment product will help to solve the cash flow issue at small businesses; “We want to do for [small-business] B-to-B commerce what the entire credit card infrastructure has done for B-to-C commerce,” said Prashant Fuloria, chief operating officer of Fundbox, to American Banker; one of the biggest reasons for some of these issues is there is no credit scoring equivalent for small businesses; Fundbox Pay allows businesses to get paid immediately and gives those invoiced 60 days to pay at no charge, allowing businesses to handle the seasonal cash flow issues without too much pain. Source.
Lightning Labs announced it had raised $2.5 million and at the same time released a beta version of their technology; one of the criticisms of bitcoin is that it can handle a limited number of transactions per second; some believe that bitcoin should increase its block size to process more transactions; Lightning Labs is working on the Lightning Network to add another layer of transactions to sit on top of the blockchain network which would allow for more transactions to take place. Source
Options Clearing Corporation has set a three year plan to put their business on a cloud based system; the reason for the move is concerns over cybersecurity; the company clears more than 460mn trades a month and has recently added cryptocurrency futures; cloud based servers are cheaper and more secure than in house IT systems. Source.
Savings rates at UK challenger banks are more than 1 percent higher than their high street counterparts; research by challenger Gatehouse Bank revealed the statistics; challenger banks and digital banks are still finding wide knowledge of open banking a challenge; “Sadly too many savers still opt for products from household names as they are unaware of the best buys that exist beyond the high street,“ said Charles Haresnape, CEO of Gatehouse Bank, to AltFi. Source.