Tagged: forge

November 6, 2025 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW), the eponymous brokerage, has acquired private markets platform Forge (NYSE:FRGE) for $660 million. Once again, bespoke Fintech investment bank FT Partners served as financial advisor on the deal for Forge. FT Partners has been a long time partner with Forge, assisting in… Read More

June 30, 2025 @ 10:35 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Forge Global (NYSE: FRGE), a private securities marketplace and provider of infrastructure, data services, and technology and investment solutions, has introduced its next-generation marketplace—the first major release on Forge’s new API-first platform. “Today’s launch is a milestone for the private market,” said Forge CEO Kelly… Read More

February 21, 2025 @ 6:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Societe Generale-FORGE announces the launch of its EUR-backed stablecoin (EURCV) on the Stellar network. This expansion will open opportunities for users and businesses “to access a secure, transparent, and scalable digital euro stablecoin, powered by the innovative Stellar blockchain infrastructure.” This move combines the regulatory… Read More

February 10, 2025 @ 9:37 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

While some trends are unmistakable, the key is to identify them before the market does. Smart investors do that by leveraging data from private markets, which can identify trends by analyzing activity between IPOs and other key events. Forge serves accredited seed and angel investors,… Read More

December 17, 2024 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Societe Generale announces the successful completion of a collateralized market transaction “fully” executed on blockchain via its subsidiary Societe Generale – FORGE. This is reportedly the first repo transaction (Sale and Repurchase Agreement) in digital securities (Security Tokens) with an Eurosystem’s central bank. As explained… Read More

September 29, 2024 @ 6:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stripe, Databricks, Rippling, and OpenAI all made the cut when Forge (NYSE: FRGE), a private market platform, identified the Private Magnificent 7, which comprises seven of the largest, most resilient, and highest-performing companies in the U.S. innovation economy. Much like their public market counterparts, this… Read More

September 29, 2023 @ 1:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

While all markets have been choppy and some are in decline, Forge is reporting that private markets are performing better than some other markets. Forge is a private securities marketplace that provides liquidity in private firms. According to the Forge Private Market Index, private firms… Read More

September 15, 2023 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Forge Global has shared the latest Private Market Update with CI. The report, prepared by global private securities marketplace, Forge Global (NYSE: FRGE), includes key insights based on the most current developments. The Forge Private Market Index, which tracks the most liquid private companies on… Read More

August 21, 2023 @ 6:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

More gloom and doom in the marketplace. Forge is echoing what we are hearing from others that without heightened demand, prices are in decline for shares in private firms. According to a recent report by Forge, private companies are trading at a whopping 58% discount… Read More

July 21, 2023 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Societe Generale – FORGE (SG-FORGE), a subsidiary of the Societe Generale Group dedicated to crypto assets activities, announces that it has obtained its regulatory license approval as Digital Asset Service Provider (‘DASP’, or ‘Prestataire de Service sur Actifs Numériques’ (PSAN)) with the French Financial Markets… Read More

July 1, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Societe Generale – FORGE, a “fully” integrated subsidiary of Societe Generale, providing issuers and investors with end-to-end services to issue, invest and manage digital-native security tokens registered on public blockchains, has selected METACO, a provider of digital asset management technology and infrastructure, “to orchestrate its… Read More

May 10, 2021 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forge Global, a multinational private securities marketplace, has revealed that it has acquired the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) approval to offer services as a single broker dealer with SharesPost after a merger last year. Forge Global has also finalized an oversubscribed investment round of… Read More

November 9, 2020 @ 8:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The merger of SharesPost and Forge has been approved by regulators, according to a note distributed by SharesPost. The merger was announced last spring and set in motion the creation of one of the largest private securities marketplaces in the world. The transaction was facilitated… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 4:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Equidate has rebranded to become Forge Global, Inc. (Forge). Forge is an online marketplace for pre-IPO securities, like Spotify, Lyft, 23 and Me and others. Forge reports having topped $1 billion in transactions. Alongside the change of name Forge announced the expansion of its Series B funding… Read More