Transparency Capital has launched this week, and becomes the first and only world platform open to well-informed investors allowing them to access major European private equity fund managers for just €150,000.

The Bank of England governor’s comments on the regulation of cryptocurrencies can be expected to help fuel a sustainable recovery of the likes of Bitcoin, Etehreum, Ripple, Litecoin and Dash.

This is the prediction of Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial services organisations, following Mark Carney’s declaration that the exchanges that clear cryptocurrencies should come into the “regulatory tent.”

London-based entrepreneur, author and acclaimed digital innovator Dele Atanda announced the introduction of metâme, a digital wallet which hopes to change how personal data is stored, used and shared.  

Recycling Technologies, a specialist in the chemical recycling of mixed plastic waste, announces a major strategic £1m equity investment from global oil trader, InterChem.

In the second of three articles on the changes brought in with the Budget, James Ramsay, a independent tax efficient specialist, takes an adviser’s eye view of the changes and their implications to firms and their clients.

"The Week That Was is released every week by OFF3R. At OFF3R you can compare investments from leading equity crowdfunding and peer to peer lending sites through to robo-advisors and stocks and shares ISAs."

Better Wi-Fi on the moon than the Tube, Porsche is bullish on blockchain and half of ICOs have failed

Nuggets has officially launched a 60 million NUG token Bounty campaign. Nuggets plans to use its new program to empower a community of users; made up of crypto enthusiasts, system engineers, application developers, researchers, thinkers, writers and other collaborators to further the company’s mission of giving consumers true control of their data. 

Baroness Michelle Mone OBE, co-founder of EQUI, a cryptocurrency-based platform, comments on Mark Carney's speech on the Future of Money.

EBAN has published its latest research report focused on understanding the reasons why angel investors choose not to invest in early stage SMEs.

The report, titled “Why Business Angels Do Not Invest”, is based on direct responses received from EBAN members and participants of our investor training workshops organized during the years of 2016-2017. 683 participants from 41 different countries, the vast majority of them being active angel investors, participated in a brief 8-question survey administered at the end of each workshop. In this report, you will find an aggregation of the survey results with a brief commentary explaining the main findings.

Download the report here.

EIF-supported Trind Ventures has concluded the first closing of its new fund at 21 million euros. The three largest investors in the fund are European Investment Fund (EIF) under the Juncker Plan, LHV pension funds (LHV) and Trind Ventures’ team itself.

The end of the tax year is just one month away.  Here are five things to do before then.

PPeter Thiel has invested in many of the most famous companies of the last 20 years including PayPal and Facebook.