Tagged: marketplaces

October 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure (NASDAQ:FIGR) introduced its AI-powered Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR) loan platform, expanding its blockchain-powered capital marketplace into one of the fastest-growing — and “most underserved” — segments of housing finance.  As competition increases and demand for efficiency rises, the platform brings automation to a… Read More

September 21, 2025 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SMG Swiss Marketplace Group (ticker: SMG) made its debut on the SIX Swiss Exchange on September 19, 2025. The listing crowns SMG as Switzerland‘s preeminent network of online marketplaces and etches it into the ecosystem of Europe’s IPO sector this year, reportedly emerging as the… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace for co-owned luxury vacation homes, continues to focus on second-home ownership with its recent expansion into Mexico, steady financial results, and an investment opportunity for individual investors. Founded in 2020 by former Zillow executives Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff,… Read More

July 4, 2025 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace for co-owned luxury vacation homes, continues to transform the second-home market with its innovative co-ownership model. Founded in 2020 by former Zillow executives Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff, Pacaso has expanded its footprint, delivering luxury home ownership while addressing… Read More

April 20, 2025 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dubizzle Group, the MENA region’s digital marketplace group, announces today the acquisition of Property Monitor, a real-estate market intelligence platform in the UAE. The acquisition of Property Monitor reinforces Dubizzle Group’s leadership in real estate classifieds and technology “through a portfolio of brands, including Bayut… Read More

March 22, 2025 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The JurisTrade Litigation Asset Marketplace provides a “transparent” electronic platform which facilitates both primary funding opportunities in litigation finance, as well secondary sales of such interests. The potential market for litigation finance ranges in the “several $100s billions, of which only $30 billion is currently… Read More

March 7, 2025 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, a technology platform powering a more efficient and liquid marketplace for financial products, announced that its DART electronic lien registry has achieved significant ecosystem traction among “warehouse providers, investors and originating partners.” DART is a “core component” of the Figure Connect loan… Read More

November 5, 2024 @ 5:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plato Partnership, the organization dedicated to advancing the equities marketplace via collaboration, announces standards for managing cash equities market outages, developed by Plato member firms with discussions with exchanges including Deutsche Börse, Euronext, SIX Swiss Exchange, and Nasdaq OMX. Although not all standards have been… Read More

August 22, 2024 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, a marketplace for the co-ownership of vacation homes, claims that shares of its properties have significantly outperformed the broader luxury residential market in its key regions, according to a recent analysis by RCLCO, a real estate consulting and economics firm. The research study reveals… Read More

March 20, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies announces the launch of Figure Markets, the first step in a vision to create an “everything marketplace”– a single platform where investors can trade a range of blockchain-native assets from crypto to stocks to alternative investments. Figure Markets has secured over $60 million… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 11:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a vacation home, unveils ‘Rosemary Shores’, signifying the company’s expansion into the vibrant seaside community of Rosemary Beach, Florida. The home also marks Pacaso‘s collaboration home “with a design partner, luxury interiors… Read More

February 13, 2024 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra, a provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, and Tesselate, a consultancy, have announced the launch of an end-to-end pre-packaged service for faster and easier online trade finance. Tegula Trade Finance as a Service, powered by Finastra Trade Innovation and Corporate Channels, enables US… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

B2B payments platform Sprinque announces a partnership with Mangopay, a modular and flexible payment infrastructure provider for marketplaces and platforms. The collaboration enables merchants and marketplaces “to take advantage of holistic and customisable payments infrastructures and terms, allowing them to grow revenues by tapping into… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 2:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a vacation home, announces its operational expansion into Paris, marking the company’s inaugural entry into the vibrant French real estate landscape. With the introduction of Paris, Pacaso marks its “expansion into 40… Read More

December 20, 2023 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SwissFortress, an enabler of decentralized wallet solutions, has announced an integration with qiibee, the blockchain-based B2B marketplace for customer loyalty. The integration, which stems from qiibee’s partnership with Miles & More, the loyalty programme of the Lufthansa Group, “adds SwissFortress’s technology powered by MatterFi, to… Read More

December 1, 2023 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, which claims to be one of the world’s leading derivatives marketplaces,  announced that open interest in its deeply liquid U.S. Treasury futures “set a new record of 21,428,757 contracts on November 24.” This year, the notional value of open interest “in CME Group… Read More

November 26, 2023 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mangopay, a platform-specific payment infrastructure provider, today announces that it has been selected by Maisons du Monde, a home decor and furniture retailer, to offer seamless payment experiences to its marketplace customers. The integration of Mangopay’s modular payment infrastructure “marks a significant step forward in… Read More

November 7, 2023 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partner – real estate developer SIB Group – has reportedly repaid investors a €200 000 loan (real estate project “Lini namai”) and paid €41,076 in interest to our investors. PeerBerry enters its seventh year of operations “with a record amount of funded loans… Read More

October 29, 2023 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Onfido, the global firm focused on automated identity verification, announced a partnership with Job&Talent, a marketplace headquartered in Spain, for essential work. Together, they will automate remote identity verification “for new candidate onboarding, eliminating the need for in-branch visits.” Onfido’s technology helps Job&Talent accelerate customer… Read More

October 22, 2023 @ 2:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, is partnering with ELCY, a specialist in e-commerce solutions for the processing of international trade finance, to provide a trade finance solution for corporates. The Corporate Trade Finance Portal from Finastra and ELCY will “enable… Read More