Pleuni Jacobs has been working as an editor for Eurolutions, the owner of this website, since 2019. She mostly writes news and background articles. For Investment Platforms, these articles are focused on trading platforms and investing. She also is the person responsible for adding advertisements to the website. If you have questions about advertising, chances are that she will be the one answering them. Do you want to read more of Pleuni’s work? Check out our other websites: Ecommerce News Europe, Ecommerce News Nederland, Crowdfundmarkt, Investeerders and Ondernemen en Internet.
Before writing for Investment Platforms, Pleuni studied Psychology and obtained a Master’s degree in Gender Studies. After that, she started out as a freelance writer but soon noticed that she wanted to work with colleagues. Then she found Eurolutions, where she has been working ever since. Nowadays, she mostly writes news and background articles. She also manages advertisements and edits texts by other editors.
European online investment platform, Scalable Capital, has raised 60 million euros in equity financing. This round brings the company’s total funding to 326 million euros. The company wants to use the funding to achieve further growth.
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A year ago, international peer-to-peer lending platform Monefit launched its automated investment solution called SmartSaver. The solution has helped the platform create a value of 900 thousand euros within a year. “We are really happy to see that thousands of people all around the world are using Monefit SmartSaver to meet their money goals”, says Monika Niebelska, VP of Product.
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The recently launched peer-to-peer investing platform Maclear offers European investors the opportunity to invest in businesses based in Switzerland or the European Union. To attract more investors, it currently offers a bonus to new customers.
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Last Friday was the deadline for the new European Crowdfunding Service Provider deadline. Crowdfunding platforms that were not able to obtain the license are not allowed to publish new crowdfunding projects within Europe. Within the Netherlands, almost all of the biggest platforms were able to get the license in time.
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German online broker Trade Republic is adding a new product today: fractional bonds. From now on, customers can invest in 500 liquid government and corporate bonds. This should provide investors with higher long-term interest rates.
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German alternative financer Auxmoney has acquired a majority stake in Lender & Spender, a Dutch peer-to-peer investment platform. It is Auxmoney’s first acquisition, but it is already thinking about further growth through future acquisitions.
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Lithuanian agricultural investment platform HeavyFinance has financed 40 million euros in agricultural loans in Europe. Almost 1,400 crowdfunding loans have been financed. Most of the funded loans are situated in Lithuania.
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So far, 43 European crowdfunding platforms have been approved for the new European Crowdfunding Service Provider license. There is a large portion of platforms on the list coming from the Netherlands (12 of them).
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Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has joined RetailBook, a new retail investment platform. Crowdcube users can now participate in IPOs on the same terms as institutional investors.
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After being founded in 2014, Estonian real estate investment platform Estateguru has financed 719.1 million euros worth of loans. However, it has also announced that it has 450 outstanding defaulted loans, worth 125 million euros.
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