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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Estonian real estate investment platform Reinvest24 has announced a strategic partnership with Shojin Property Partners. Shojin Property Partners is an FCA regulated investment company from the United Kingdom. Through the partnership, Reinvest24 can now enter the real estate market in the United Kingdom.

Based in the United Kingdom, the new online investing platform Obu, wants to increase the number of female investors in the country. The platform aims to connect women angel investors with female-founded businesses.

European crowdfunding platform October has facilitated one billion euros of funding. The platform focuses on provides funding to SMEs in Europe. Together, the companies that have received funds from the platform, generate a turnover of 25 billion euros and employ more than 90,000 people.

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance has canceled its registration in the United Kingdom. The platform’s division in the country was launched in 2020, but it was dormant and never engaged in any regulated activities. It is the platform’s third withdrawal from a market within the last couple of months.