Rabobank and Nxchange launch alternative finance platform for SMEs
Rabo&Crowd offers SMEs access to a tradable bond platform for loan financing. The service brings together bank loans and funding from private investors via the next-generation stock exchange’s platform. Investors looking to invest via the platform can start with as little as EUR 100, buying bonds on Nxchange, and can sell bonds before their expiration […]
Factris concludes a facility agreement amounting to €100 million
Factris has recently announced its conclusion of a €100 million credit facility agreement, which will provide working capital to SMEs throughout Europe. Brian Reaves, CEO of Factris, commented about the agreement for Holland Fintech: ”The agreement is a step toward creating the largest independent working capital provider for small and medium sized businesses in Europe. With […]
Member Spotlight: Blanco Services
Blanco Services defines itself as the “invisible engine of the asset manager’’. We sat down with Bernadette Wijnings, Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Blanco Services to find out more. Blanco Services was founded in 2015 by a group of professionals who met through their work for BinckBank. “We noticed that software products and services […]
KPMG acquires a minority stake at AdviceRobo
AdviceRobo, the Dutch fintech start-up developing technology that predicts financial risk of people and companies taking out loan, has announced the acquisition of KPMG a minority stake. The parties are aiming to widen the client pool of KPMG across the world toward stregthening clients’ current risk management. The alliance will also entitle AdviceRobo to benefit […]
Seedrs launch first-of-kind AutoInvest
The AutoInvest feature from Seedrs allows investors to automatically invest a fixed amount in campaigns that meet a series of preselected criteria, which is a first for the crowdfunding industry, according to their press release. The equity crowdfunding platform made the announcement on July 17, 2018 via press release. AutoInvest gives investors the opportunity to easily […]
FIBR helps Financial Inclusion with PAYGo Partnerships
Financial Inclusion on Business Runways (FIBR) has partnered with PAYGo providers BrightLife and the Safe Water Network to support its mission of using digital innovation to deliver financial services to low-income populations in Africa. FIBR is an initiative developed by the Mastercard Foundation and global consulting firm BFA. Prweb reports that FIBR entered into the new […]
Week 24: Research at a Glance
Financing the Future of Supercomputing by the European Commission This report lays out the steps and actions needed to improve access-to-finance conditions for supporting the growth of the supercomputing sector in Europe. The great illusion of digital currencies by Bank of Finland This paper is an analysis of digital currencies, in which the authors argue that […]
Portuguese P2P lender Raize and German online lender Creditshelf plan IPO
On the 15th June, Portuguese peer-to-peer lender Raize has announced an initial public offering (IPO); not only making it the first IPO to be held in Portugal since 2014 , but also the first European P2P lender to even have one. On the continent, German online lender Creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft has also made public its intentions to launch […]
Week 23: Research at a glance
International Survey for Mobile Banking by ING Group, Think Forward, & IPSOS
Crowdfunding, regulation and innovation: An interview with Loyens & Loeff
An interview of Marije Louisse, senior associate, FinTech Team, Loyens & Loeff N.V. by Holland FinTech. The state of crowdfunding Crowdfunding is a broad term. What are the different types of crowdfunding today? Two different forms of crowdfunding are generally referred to as the prominent categories: investment-based and lending-based crowdfunding. With lending-based crowdfunding, the project […]