AMF warns of fraudulent crowdfunding site Crowd-Partners.com LeapRate

November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AMF warns of fraudulent crowdfunding site Crowd-Partners.com

The French regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has warned of the activities of the website https://crowd-partners.com/ which encourages savers to invest in various fraudulent investment solutions and abusively uses the label "Plate-forme de financement participatif régulée par les autorités françaises" without the required authorization. The website https://crowd-partners.com/ is abusively using the label "Plate-forme de…

September 21, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Y Combinator Uses Blockchain To Help People Invest in Startups

The startup incubator who helped numerous Silicon Valley giants is now helping people invest in new businesses via the use of blockchain. According to Brad Jones from Futurism, Y Combinator is now searching for ways to expand its investment access and opportunities. The president of Y Combinator, Sam Altman, said that the process needs to…

September 12, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

ASIC to take crowdfunding license applications beginning September 29

Australia financial regulator ASIC has announced that from 29 September 2017, the new crowd-sourced funding (CSF) regime will come into effect and ASIC will begin accepting licence applications from CSF intermediaries. Under the CSF regime, eligible public companies will be able to make offers of fully paid ordinary shares to a large number of investors…

May 09, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Crowdfunding giant OurCrowd hires investment banker Andy Kaye as President and CIO

Israel based crowdfunding company OurCrowd has announced the hiring of veteran investment banker Andy Kaye as its new President and Chief Institutional Officer. OurCrowd has two main arms - the one which invests in (mostly) tech startups, and the other which deals with the multitude of outside investors, now numbering more than 17,000. Mr. Kaye will…

Category: Crowdfunding