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Crowdfunding is growing fast, but building your own platform comes with serious challenges. This overview covers regulatory requirements, payment processing, identity verification, technology, marketing hurdles, and how solutions like LenderKit help simplify the process.

Entrepreneurs find ways to bring liquidity to real estate investing, and asset tokenization seems to be the go-to-solution. How to build a tokenized real estate crowdfunding or investment platform? How does asset tokenization in real estate work?

The pandemic changed the educational system, economy of every country in the world, tourism and lots of other things. The Fintech industry wasn’t an exception. Today we will talk about changes that covid-19 brought into crowdfunding.

Starting a crowdfunding portal or an online investment marketplace is not an easy task. Learn from the competitive crowdfunding platforms on the market and learn about their pricing models to figure out if you want to enter the crowdfunding niche.

Impact investing and ESG financing is growing worldwide and there are many opportunities for startups, investors and crowdfunding platforms. As more and more firms are introducing ESG principles in their marketing strategy and overall corporate policy, there're going to be new projects to fund and new startups to develop.

Regulatory authorities require private equity and online investing platforms to perform specific testing of investors to make sure they understand the risks. While in some countries investors can proceed with investing activities even if they fail the test, stricter jurisdictions like the UK deny such investors the ability to engage in high-risk investing activities.

You don’t need to build every feature of a crowdfunding platform from scratch. By using trusted third-party services, you can easily add payments, KYC/AML checks, digital signatures, asset tokenisation, currency exchange, and SMS notifications.

Open banking is both a buzzword and a virtue in the Fintech industry these days. It greatly simplifies access to financial services and allows fintechs to build stronger partnerships.