The Financial Conduct Authority has  published the next stage of the post-implementation review of peer-to-peer lending regulation.

CrowdProperty, the property specialist peer-to-peer lender today funded a £925,000 residential property development project in 9 minutes and 51 seconds with 113 lenders. The project, in Plymouth, is the development of 11 houses on the site of a former hotel.

Dudley-based Carbon Fibre Preforms has raised £1.078m via the private investor network Growthdeck to fund the expansion of production to meet predicted global demand from end users across the train, aeronautical and shipbuilding industries as well as oil and gas drilling sectors.

Bean-to-bar chocolate company MIA is celebrating after exceeding its crowdfunding target of £100,000 on the Seedrs platform.  

Movebubble, London’s number one property rental platform, has raised just under £825,000 in funding, thanks to its successful equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.

After launching an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, Story Terrace, the bespoke memoirs service has raised over £500K, exceeding their initial funding target of £400,008.

iBAN, a UK-based company which raised funds on Seedrs in 2017, plans to launch iBAN Wallet - a digital alternative to traditional banking. iBAN Wallet aims to bring all the key banking services into one digital platform that can be securely accessed via a smartphone. Users will be able to access a wide range of financial services via the app, which will be available on Google Play and the iTune Store.

Sam Quawasmi, co-founder of global equity crowdfunding platform Eureeca, is urging UK and European businesses to take advantage of China’s ambitious development plans and to consider getting funding to expand into the region.

Seedrs announces record levels of trading in its first year operating a secondary market and what’s next for the product. In the twelve months since launch, the platform has seen impressive demand for shares in its portfolio companies. In the process, Seedrs has achieved 2,990 investor exits in what was previously an illiquid asset class.

Until Seedrs launched its secondary market, the long-term nature of early stage private equity meant that shares tend to be illiquid and investors would have to wait for an exit event such as an IPO or a sale of the business before seeing any returns on their investment.

Farmdrop has closed a £10 million Series B investment, at roughly five times the share price of the 2014 Crowdcube round, in which the company raised just under £750k from 352 investors.  FarmDrop is an award-winning ethical online marketplace working with local producers to fix the food chain. By cutting out middlemen, producers receive a  much more generous price than supermarkets would offer, and customers receive farm-fresh produce to their door.

Unique equity crowdfunding platform Stakeholderz has announced the success of its first fundraising campaign. This first venture deal saw Welsh start-up Vortex IoT raising £500k to fund its work in delivering innovative "Internet of Things" solutions into the Heavy Industry, Smart Infrastructure and Rail Infrastructure sectors.

Bidstack, the in-game advertising software company which raised £137,000 via Crowdcube in December 2015, is seeking to list its shares on AIM via a Reverse Takeover (RTO) of Kin Group Plc.