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Market Data SME P2P lending Europe

Study finds financial data improves risk assessment in crowdfunding loans

Researchers at King’s College London and Copenhagen Business School studied more than 2,400 loans on the Danish platform MyC4. They found that access to borrowers’ financial information helped lenders spot risky loans more accurately. However, social-purpose projects reduced the crowd’s ability to distinguish good loans from bad ones. The paper suggests platforms should present financial risks more clearly alongside social aims.

Campaign News Startups Equity United Kingdom

TechRound highlights five startup crowdfunding campaigns for the week of 26 October 2026

TechRound rounds up five startups currently crowdfunding, including Breezemove, Detox Guardian, Kaleidoscope Kids and New Vision Opticians. The article lists each company’s fundraising target and the platform where investors can participate. It also notes GUTsy Captain’s revenue and distribution scale, though it is not currently raising.

Market Data SME Debt

Morocco-linked crowdfunding campaigns raise 7.62 million dirhams in 2025

A new barometer says Morocco-linked crowdfunding campaigns raised 7.62 million dirhams in 2025 from 12,161 contributors. The report, produced by HAPPY SMALA with IDinsight, also found that Moroccan platforms raised 3.15 million dirhams. It highlights first-time data from Kiwi Collecte and Akkan Crowdfunding, as well as the first crowdlending transaction under law 15.18.

Platform Update Real estate Tokenized

TECROWD closes ¥1.3B Mongolia property fund with 16.5% target yield

TECROWD has closed a ¥1.3 billion property fund focused on Mongolia. The fund targets a 16.5% yield. The report highlights the platform’s latest real-estate investment offering and its fundraising result.

Regulation USA

SEC chairman signals review of crowdfunding rules

The SEC plans to review Regulation Crowdfunding rules to reduce compliance burdens and attract more issuers and investors. Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency is considering changes to reporting, filer status, and communications rules. He also noted that more than 9,800 crowdfunding offerings have been conducted since the rule was adopted in 2015.

Platform Update SME Italy

Smart Capital adds €1 million to Entera to support post-merger expansion

Smart Capital has approved a €1 million capital contribution to Entera, a crowdfunding and advisory services group in which it holds about 30.97%. The payment is intended to support Entera’s post-merger development, integration of acquired activities and platform expansion. It will count as an advance on a future capital increase planned for completion by June 30, 2027.

Platform Update Personal loans P2P lending India

LenDenClub parent Vartis Platforms plans to expand digital lending ahead of IPO

Vartis Platforms, the parent company of P2P lending platform LenDenClub, is preparing to expand its digital lending business. The company’s IPO remains on track, according to the report. The article focuses on the platform group’s strategy and listing plans.

Platform Update Social cause Donation

GoFundMe says nonprofit fundraiser creation rose 62%

GoFundMe reported a 62% increase in fundraisers created for nonprofits. The update points to stronger use of the platform for charitable fundraising. No additional details were available in the provided text.

Platform Update Health & Science Donation USA

HealthCommons launches crowdfunding platform for public health causes

HealthCommons has launched a crowdfunding platform focused exclusively on public health projects. The site lets nonprofits, clinics, schools, researchers, and community groups raise money for causes such as food security, mental health, clean water, and housing. Campaigns are manually reviewed before going live, usually within 24 hours.

Regulation Startups Equity USA

CfPA urges SEC to align crypto offering rules with exempt securities pathways

The Crowdfunding Professional Association has filed a comment letter on the SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets. It supports a tailored framework for crypto assets but asks for stronger investor protections and more consistency across exempt offering rules. The letter also recommends raising the Reg CF cap and clarifying how the new rules would interact with existing exemptions.

Platform Update Art Reward United Kingdom

Crowdfunder publishes guide to UK reward-based arts crowdfunding platforms

Crowdfunder has published a guide highlighting UK reward-based crowdfunding platforms for arts projects. The page is framed as informational content for creators exploring platform options. No campaign outcome, funding figure, or regulatory action is reported.

Campaign News Startups Reward Japan

Sword World RPG English localization campaign tops $2 million in one day

Sword World RPG’s first official English localization campaign launched on BackerKit and raised more than $2 million in its first day. The project is being run by Mugen Gaming and will fund the complete localization, design, and printing of the 2.5 Core Rules. The campaign ends on Nov. 20, with products expected to ship by December 2027.

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: November 2–8, 2026

Indonesia’s P2P bad-loan ratio crossed OJK’s 5% safety threshold in September while loan growth slowed. Elsewhere, Goparity entered Spanish equity crowdfunding, reward campaigns in Japan and South Korea posted strong results, and Hong Kong police flagged a suspected crowdfunding scam site that used the names of well-known local organizations. Lead Story P2P lending bad loan […]

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: October 26–November 1, 2026

The SEC’s chairman signaled a review of Regulation Crowdfunding, and the industry answered within days with specific asks on the offering cap, investor limits, and disclosure. StartEngine’s quarter showed why the review matters: its Reg CF revenue fell on lower issuer activity. A €61 million freeze tied to Mintos and a Danish loan study kept […]

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: October 19–25, 2026

US investment crowdfunding totaled $190.5 million in the third quarter, with Reg A taking most of it. Meanwhile, courts and regulators in the UK, Bahrain, and Indonesia spent the week deciding who answers when investor money is lost, and Europe’s P2P investors showed they now check the lender before the yield. Lead Story Investment crowdfunding […]

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: October 12–18, 2026

The Crowdfunding Professional Association released a voluntary reporting standard that gives Reg CF and Reg A platforms a common format for investment, payment, and performance data. Elsewhere, rulebooks sat at four different stages — drafted in Ethiopia, discussed by a US advisory committee, clarified by ESMA, and enforced in China. Funding data showed capital clustering […]

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: October 5–11, 2026

Malaysia put RM270 million of public money behind equity crowdfunding and P2P platforms in its 2027 budget, while regulators in France, the US, and Indonesia dealt with the other side of the story: gaps in investor protection. The market data pointed the same way. Reg CF cooled in September, and Asian P2P lending kept growing […]

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: September 28–October 4, 2026

A petition to quadruple Reg CF’s fundraising cap dominated the regulatory conversation last week, landing alongside a SEC update to the accredited investor definition and a wave of enforcement action spanning the US and Nigeria. Europe and India’s P2P lending markets sat at different levels of maturity — Europe reporting routine volumes, one of India’s […]

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: September 21–27, 2026

Liquidity was the thread running under last week’s headlines. Crowdcube built the plumbing to let crowd investors actually sell their shares before an exit, and a Reg CF-funded subsidiary is buying its own crowd investors out entirely. Underneath that, new data complicated the US Reg CF growth story: capital is concentrating around a small pool […]

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: September 14–20, 2026

One of equity crowdfunding’s most famous success stories became its starkest cautionary tale last week, as BrewDog’s collapse left roughly 200,000 crowd investors with worthless shares. Elsewhere, donation crowdfunding showed real strain on two different continents, while the Middle East and Africa kept building targeted alternative-finance infrastructure, and the EU’s crowdfunding passport quietly expanded to […]

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