3 Parts to the Year In Review
1. Platform growth update
2. Porfolio Update
3. 2017 for BnkToTheFuture.com, FinTech & The Future of Finance and Money.
1 – Platform growth update
- 33,000 Registered professional investors
- $122m invested since launch
- Over 18,600 BTC
- Over 22k investments.
- 6,100% growth since we launched as a FinTech platform in May 2015
- 190% growth from last year
- 560k micro dividends paid returning over $1.6m to investors so far
- Over 18,600 BTC invested. $17m. 14% of amount invested. Received funds as BTC rather than converting to fiat.
- Over 22k investments.
- Face to Face meetings over 100 Fund Managers in Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Boston, San Francisco, New York.
- Presentations in Vietnam, South Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Thailand, USA, Dubai, Singapore, UK, Malaysia, Iceland
- 2017 Countries – Australia, India, South Africa, South America, Africa.
2 – Portfolio Update
New portfolio investments – BitPay, Kraken, Bitfinex, BitStamp, TallySticks, Mega Upload 2, Storj, Maidsafe, BitSo, Unocoin, ZCash, EXODUS, BitWage, Loytal, BitSpark, CoinPayments, BSave, Brave New Coin, Tokenly, Credible Friends, Credits, Synereo and Airbitz.
Follow on funding – ShapeShift, BitPesa, Factom,
Highlighted stories
- FinTech Story 1 – Unocoin and demonetization.
- FinTech Story 2 – BitFinex hack & Bitcoin recovery.
- FinTech Story 3 – BitSo and Mexican remittances in the era of Donald Trump.
- FinTech Story 4 – Encryption and Privacy advancements from MegaUpload 2, MaidSafe and Storj.
3 – 2017 for BnkToTheFuture.com and FinTech
2017 for us – New investor tools – portfolio evaluation tools, tools to exchange investments, loan based products, secondary markets.
2017 for FinTech – Government’s war on cash. central banks new digital currencies. FinTech built upon central banking. More radical banking reform. Bail in legislation. Bank Privacy Updates.
Happy New Year!
