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We are glad to present the the recording of our 4th AMA to the BnkToTheFuture community! In this video Simon Dixon demonstrates the features of the upcoming secondary market as well as answering questions from our community on the same day as the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork.
We invite you to review a fresh-released interview with our CEO, Bitcoin Bull and Crypto Pioneer Simon Dixon! His extensive expertise in finance and fresh insights on the future development of the digital currency market are a must-read for anyone involved in the industry. Click to see the full version of the an article here. This is a second part of the whole interview, to check out the first part please press here
Simon Dixon and Adam Meister once again meet on Bitcoin Meister channel to discuss the new trends in the Bitcoin Cash, as there are a lot of people excited about it’s movement on exchanges.
Type: Equity pitch (available for US and Non US investors)
Mission: Securitize aims to be the leading platform for enabling compliant security token offerings, capital formation and liquidity on the blockchain and is a partner of Bnk To The Future in the security token market.
Vision: Tokenize the world and unlock the full potential of capital markets
SAMPLE OF DIGITAL SECURITY ISSUERS ON THE SECURITIZE PLATFORM:
SPiCE VC
Blockchain Capital
22X
MARKETPLACES & EXCHANGES PARTNERING TO RUN SECURITIZE’S THE DS PROTOCOL:
Bnk To The Future
Airswap
Blocktrade
ERC dEX
Hyperion
OpenFinance
Sharepost
LEAD INVESTORS:
Blockchain Capital
Coinbase Ventures
THE IDEA:
Digital securities modernize raising capital by upgrading a traditionally illiquid, tedious, and costly process. Some features of digitized securities are:
COMPLIANCE: Built-in global regulatory compliance coded into the DS and protocol levels * PROGRAMMABLE: Self-executing Investor & Issuer rights (dividends, buybacks, etc…)
LIQUIDITY: Access to global markets 24/7/365
FRACTIONAL OWNERSHIP: Driving further liquidity for Issuers and Investors
TRANSPARENT AND IMMUTABLE: Providing more direct and certain ownership to Investors
EFFICIENT: Eliminate friction and middlemen
THE PLATFORM:
END-TO-END PLATFORM: Securitize is a full stack technology & services platform with powerful features and specialized tools for both investors and issuers. The Securitize platform allows users to manage their digital securities from one convenient dashboard.
CODED COMPLIANCE: The Securitize (Digital Securities) DS Protocol provides the most complete, flexible and adopted compliance solution in the market today. The DS Protocol ensures digital securities issued via the Securitize platform can be traded compliantly across all marketplaces and exchanges.
OPEN PLATFORM: Our open platform enables Securitize to focus on primary issuance & lifecycle management while leveraging partner network & driving protocol adoption. By listening to our customers and counsel we better facilitate the compliant issuance and trading of digital securities on a global scale.
TEAM:
CARLOS DOMINGO (CEO / Co-Founder): is a senior executive, entrepreneur, investor, and currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Securitize, Inc. Before becoming the CEO of Securitize, he co-founded and launched SPiCE VC, a fully tokenized VC fund. In order to ensure global compliance for SPiCE VC, Carlos and his team created the security token issuance and lifecycle management platform that would later become Securitize, Inc. Prior to SPiCE and Securitize, he was the President and CEO of Telefonica R&D, and CEO of New Business and Innovation at Telefonica Digital, as well as co-founder and board member of Wayra, one of the world’s largest corporate accelerators. He has been CTO and CEO or board member of multiple tech startups. On the investment side, he is the founder of Sling Ventures, an angel investment fund co-invested by the European Invested Bank, one of the founders of Dubai Angel Investors, and a Venture partner in THCAP VC. Carlos was also one of the leaders of open source project Firefox OS.
JAMIE FINN (President / Co-Founder): is a seasoned executive who has worked in 6 countries in both startups and corporations, and is currently the President and Co-Founder of Securitize, Inc. During his nearly 20 years of experience he has participated in over $500m worth of transactions, including Kontera, Sansa Security, Jajah, Tokbox, RingRing Media, and Zingy. Most recently, Jamie helped grow Aki Technologies from an 8 person, $1m company, to a profitable enterprise with over 60 people and tens of millions in revenue. His previous employers include Ericsson and Telefònica o2, and Jamie also held the position of AVP of Product Innovation at AT&T, as well as executive positions at numerous startups. He has been in San Francisco for the past 5 years, after spending 6 years in London. Jamie grew up in Puerto Rico and is a native English and Spanish speaker.
SHAY FINKELSTEIN (CTO / Co-Founder): is the Co-Founder and CTO of Securitize. Shay was born in Israel, but has lived in Berlin, Germany for the past four years. Shay has extensive experience as a software developer with over 20 years of experience leading development teams. Shay’s passion is utilizing blockchain technology to solve real-world problems with the latest tools and techniques to create long-standing benefits. Before co-founding Securitize, Shay was Founder and CTO of DataPhase where he was an integral part of the development of PayPro Global, a major Europe-based payment gateway. At Securitize, Shay has led the ground-up development of the Securitize platform, one of the first and most comprehensive security token issuance and lifecycle management platforms in existence.
PITCH TYPE: EQUITY
EQUITY ON OFFER: 20%
MINIMUM INVESTMENT AMOUNT: US$1,000
TOTAL INVESTMENT GOAL: $8,000,000 (selling more equity in overfunding)
This deal is on a first come, first serve basis. For full details and to make a purchase click here.
Simon Dixon, CEO, and co-founder of BnkToTheFuture, will be giving investors a chance to ask any questions and give a live demo of the brand new secondary market for Bitcoin and Blockchain companies. Register for the AMA session here
B52 foresees an opportunity in the traditional fiat currency banking world to create an “any asset” digital bank, allowing customers to buy stocks, provide peer to peer (P2P) loans, purchase real estate, buy insurance or initiate payments instantly with cryptocurrencies at the same time.
Qualifying investors can view the pitch and invest here
BABB aims to become a licensed blockchain bank and is currently preparing applications for banking licences in the UK and Lithuania. They have been given the green light by the Bank of Lithuania to submit their application and aim to do so by the end of 2018, an application to the UK will follow accordingly.
In parallel to numerous other product launches and upgrades, we believe it is really important to modernise the core platform experience. The dashboard, which is the hub and heart of your investment portfolio, seemed to be a great place to start. After numerous iterations and analysing existing feedback and combining this with real user behaviour data, we have come up with a solution that emphasizes the most important features of our ecosystem, while making those less used less prominent.
You can read the full update here
Our CEO and Co founder Simon Dixon was recently interviewed at Financial Underground Kingdom (FUK).
You can read the full post here.
In the 3rd AMA session with our CEO and Co-Founder – Simon Dixon, he announced that the BitFinex SPV will be our first secondary market deal to launch later this year. This will allow new qualifying investors to purchase shares from previous investors looking to sell. More on the original BitFinex equity round case study here.
We have now passed $625,100,000 invested in funding rounds listed on our Online Investment Platform. We thank every investor who have contributed to an investment in the Future of Finance and Technology. More details can be found on our home page
We have now paid our BnkToTheFuture Professional Investor Members over 942,000 dividends and over $22,800,000 has been returned through our dividend paying funds.
We are delighted to have over 65,800 (and counting) real active registered BF Professional Investor Members on our Online Investment Platform who are waiting for more Financial Innovation & Technology Investment opportunities to invest in. Click here to find an opportunity you like.
If you are involved in Financial Innovation & Technology then we would love to receive your application and explore if you can raise investment with us. Whether you have an ICO / Token Sale, equity or other offering, 98% of companies that have listed on our Online Investment Platform so far have raised at least their minimum funding goal. You can make a quick application for finance here and we will follow up.
BFT Token holders are given priority access to all deals before anyone else. To receive priority access deals newsletters from us, please make sure you maintain a balance of 10,000 BFT on your BnkToTheFuture.com account to receive such important notifications. Currently you can purchase BFT on either BitFinex, Huobi, Ethfinex, Gate.io, Upbit, or Bittrex
BITFINEX:
BF Token (BFT) are listed on Bitfinex, a top 5 digital asset trading platform. DISCLAIMER – BnkToTheFuture is a shareholder in BitFinex and they previously listed equity on our platform.
HUOBI:
Huobi is one of the largest volume exchange with a Asia-focused (but global) client base has just announced BFT deposits with trading.
BITTREX:
Bittrex is one of the larger crypto-to-crypto exchanges and the latest exchange to start trading BFT.
UPBIT
Upbit is a Korean C2C exchange and is launched by the biggest messaging app developer in Korea, Kakao.
GATE.IO:
Gate.io is a top 20 cryptocurrency exchange that was first to make a trading market in BF Token (BFT).
We are glad to present you a first part of really exciting text interview with Simon Dixon made by Financial Underground Kingdom (FUK) community. A great text that summarizes BnkToTheFuture and Simon Dixon past and a bit of present, remaining so much to say about the current achievements of platform in the next part!
In parallel to numerous other product launches and upgrades, we believe it is really important to modernise the core platform experience. The dashboard, which is the hub and heart of your investment portfolio, seemed to be a great place to start. After numerous iterations and analysing existing feedback and combining this with real user behaviour data, we have come up with a solution that emphasizes the most important features of our ecosystem, while making those less used less prominent.
Here’s what we have come up with:
It might be a lot to take it all at once, so we prepared a summary of the most important changes
It goes without saying that the new design will have mobile experience in mind just as much as the desktop one, making your BnkToTheFuture truly portable for the first time.
While we think we have a solution that will solve many problems you’re facing today, we realise we can also make premature assumptions. Before we go ahead and implement a change as drastic as this, we’d like to ask you for your feedback on our work thus far, as well as any other suggestions, recommendations or even priorities you might have.
If you can spare a few moments to help us achieve that, please leave a comment below.
Simon Dixon, CEO, and co-founder of BnkToTheFuture, will be giving people a chance to ask any questions in a Q&A style on subjects such as – the BFT Token, our product roadmap or Crypto Investing in general. There will be demo and discussion about the brand new secondary market for Bitcoin and Blockchain companies
The fourth session is scheduled for Thursday 15th November 2018 at 1pm UTC.
We’d like for you to participate so please register here.
Please feel free to share this blog to someone who you think will be interested!
Got a question handy? Let us know on Telegram so that we can pass it on to Simon Dixon right away here.
Looking forward to meeting with you.
The BnktoTheFuture team.
Here’s a playlist of previous recordings of AMA with Simon Dixon
You can watch the last AMA session on the video below.
Type: Equity pitch + Bonus Tokens (available for US and Non US investors)
BABB aims to build a Blockchain based banking platform to provide a peer-to-peer banking services designed for the global micro economy. With US$18 million (Ether equivalent) raised in the initial ICO (for backing of the software development), it is now raising additional funds through equity to continue developing the banking infrastructure in the EU and UK
* £1.5 million raised in equity already.
* Global community of 50,000 people spanning 173 nationalities.
* Blockchain banking app & payment card aiming for initial launch by the end of 2018.
* Two billion people unbanked in the world, an estimated US$380bn market opportunity.
Should BABB receive an appropriate banking license, it aims to provide access to a bank account for the unbanked and underbanked across the world with global economic connectivity built-in.
* Mobile App – customers will be able to open an account in a few seconds via the app, connecting instantly with other customers to make payments, raise funds and exchange currencies.
* BlackCard – The BlackCard will be a decentralised payment card independent of Visa and MasterCard. It links to the BABB app via QR code or NFC tag.
* Blockchain – Using a blockchain BABB plan to run a decentralised financial ecosystem with low overheads, instant execution, cheaper transactions directly between users.
* Biometrics – They plan to use face and voice recognition to create core digital identities for all participants.
* The Market – Their research shows that banking the unbanked represents a $380 billion opportunity. Incumbent banks struggle to cater the unbanked. BABB can viably provide people with access to banking services and the opportunities they unlock.
* Became member of Level39 incubator
* Begun the process to apply for bank license in 3 jurisdictions including the UK
* Raised 19,023 ETH in a sold-out token sale to fund software development worth around US$18m at the time
* Built engaged social media following * Successful equity raise underway with minimum funding goal achieved already.
TEAM: The BABB team are made up of entrepreneurs, bankers and technologists spanning a broad range of experiences. They believe they are well placed to address financial exclusion with first-hand experience of the issues, along with senior management experience in banking and technology.
Rushd Averroes (Founder/CEO): Is a financial inclusion specialist. He previously founded Wowpaymobi, an API which provided foreign exchange and payment services for UK SMEs and holds an MA in Microfinance and Financial Inclusion.
Paul Johnson (CIO): Is a technological evangelist and has held CIO and COO positions in financial institutions including Aldermore Bank, Lloyds Bank and GMAC FS. He is also an iNED on the Board of Sonali Bank.
Leonard Seelig (Managing Director): Has twenty years’ banking experience and leadership positions within private and public companies. He recently retired from his role as chairman of APC Technology Group PLC and Board member of Defenx PLC.
Adam Haeems (COO): Has a Master of Finance from Cambridge University and has enjoyed an accomplished trading career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and QCM, a $1bn global macro hedge fund.
Ricardo Abreu (CPO): Specialises in innovation delivery, from ideation to go-to-market strategy. He was previously at Accenture Interactive and Fjord, providing design and innovation consultancy to Fortune 500 companies.
Disclosure: Director’s loan exist
* BABB would like to offer all equity investors a bonus of 40 BAX for each $1 you invest. For example, if they invest $10,000, they’re entitled to receive 400,000 BAX tokens.
* BAX bonus tokens will be distributed once the second phase is live, which we anticipate in Q3 2019. The second phase is contingent on the successful completion of three deliverables – the launch of the BABB app, formation of at least one major international partnership, and the receipt of a banking licence.
* BABB would also like to offer all equity investors the chance to buy discounted BAX in the second phase of our token sale. Investors can purchase the same amount of BAX they received as a bonus, at a 35% discount.
PITCH TYPE: EQUITY + BONUS TOKENS EQUITY ON OFFER: 4%
MINIMUM INVESTMENT AMOUNT: US$1,000
TOTAL INVESTMENT GOAL: £2,000,000
This deal is on a first come, first serve basis. For full details and to make a purchase click here.
A short interview from Crypto Love, featuring CEO and Co-Founder of Bnk To The Future – Simon Dixon, explaining a brief history of Bnk To The Future, BFT token, project ambitions and general market situation. Catch the 20 minute video session on the following link: Enjoy and watch here!
B52 foresees an opportunity in the traditional fiat currency banking world to create an “any asset” digital bank, allowing customers to buy stocks, provide peer to peer (P2P) loans, purchase real estate, buy insurance or initiate payments instantly with cryptocurrencies at the same time.
Qualifying investors can view the pitch and invest here.
Whilst the BF Wallet is awaiting its independent security audit before going live to the community, the tech team has been focusing its efforts on making the Secondary Market even more versatile from the start. On top of the internal transfer payment option, they have begun integrating direct altcoin and Bitcoin payments for the trades, making it easier to trade.
You can read the full update here
In the 3rd AMA session with our CEO and Co-Founder – Simon Dixon, he announced that the BitFinex SPV will be our first secondary market deal to launch later this year. This will allow new qualifying investors to purchase shares from previous investors looking to sell. More on the original BitFinex equity round case study here.
We have now passed $615,500,000 invested in funding rounds listed on our Online Investment Platform. We thank every investor who have contributed to an investment in the Future of Finance and Technology. More details can be found on our home page
We have now paid our BnkToTheFuture Professional Investor Members over 942,000 dividends and over $22,000,000 has been returned through our dividend paying funds.
We are delighted to have over 65,000 (and counting) real active registered BF Professional Investor Members on our Online Investment Platform who are waiting for more Financial Innovation & Technology Investment opportunities to invest in. Click here to find an opportunity you like.
If you are involved in Financial Innovation & Technology then we would love to receive your application and explore if you can raise investment with us. Whether you have an ICO / Token Sale, equity or other offering, 98% of companies that have listed on our Online Investment Platform so far have raised at least their minimum funding goal. You can make a quick application for finance here and we will follow up.
BFT Token holders are given priority access to all deals before anyone else. To receive priority access deals newsletters from us, please make sure you maintain a balance of 10,000 BFT on your BnkToTheFuture.com account to receive such important notifications. Currently you can purchase BFT on either BitFinex, Huobi, Ethfinex, Gate.io, Upbit, or Bittrex
BITFINEX:
BF Token (BFT) are listed on Bitfinex, a top 5 digital asset trading platform. DISCLAIMER – BnkToTheFuture is a shareholder in BitFinex and they previously listed equity on our platform.
HUOBI:
Huobi is one of the largest volume exchange with a Asia-focused (but global) client base has just announced BFT deposits with trading.
BITTREX:
Bittrex is one of the larger crypto-to-crypto exchanges and the latest exchange to start trading BFT.
UPBIT
Upbit is a Korean C2C exchange and is launched by the biggest messaging app developer in Korea, Kakao.
GATE.IO:
Gate.io is a top 20 cryptocurrency exchange that was first to make a trading market in BF Token (BFT).
With the BF Wallet awaiting its independent security audit before going live to the community, the tech team has been focusing its efforts on making the Secondary Market even more versatile from the start. On top of the internal transfer payment option, they have begun integrating direct altcoin and Bitcoin payments for the trades, making it easier to trade.
You will also notice that ahead of the Secondary Market launch, we added a discussion forum and investor zone to company pages, and it can now be seen on both company pages and pitch forum section.
We’re also pleased to announce a merger of USDT and USD balances to simplify the experience and improve liquidity.
Last but not least, we have spent a lot of time finding a solution to reduce the barrier for investors to start enjoying the VIP membership perks. To achieve that, we’re planning to launch a facility to automate BFT token purchase from an exchange without leaving the BnkToTheFuture.com interface and intend to release this functionality to the community in November.
Please stay tuned for further updates.
Type: Equity pitch (available for US and Non-US investors)
DESCRIPTION:
B52 sees an opportunity to create an “any asset” digital bank in the traditional fiat currency banking world and allowing customers to buy stocks, provide peer to peer (P2P) loans and lending, purchase real estate, buy insurance or initiate payments instantly with cryptocurrencies at the same time.
PRODUCT SUITE:
* CRYPTO Banking – Cryptocurrency backed banking services
* DIGITAL Banking – Traditional banking made digital
* HYBRID Banking – Banking services with any ASSETS
* TOKENIZED Banking – Asset backed financing services
DEAL FACTS:
* B52 finalized the agreement on the acquisition of a Target Bank.
* The Target Bank has a full banking license in the European Union.
* Regulatory approval to be reached by November/December 2018.
* Directors and management team selected.
* Product Portfolio launch for Q1 2019 has been developed.
* The team, partners and advisors are ready to launch “THE ANY ASSET BANK”.
BACKED BY:
* Signa
* Life.SREDA
* Q-Capital Ventures
* Chris Skinner
* Meniga
* Braintribe
ADVISORS:
* Byron Haynes (Former CEO Bawag Bank)
* Chris Skinner (Author/ Top 5 Global Influencer)
* Susanne Chishti (CEO of FINTECH Circle)
* Marina Bykova (executive manager with over 25 years of experience, and has a network of international contacts and relations across financial institutions, public sector, and High Net Worth Ultra Individuals and their families)
* Karl A. Johannesson (seasoned corporate CEO level coach and management consultant acting as an advisor and/or NED for global businesses and start-ups for more than 25 years)
* Stefan Ebner (Founder & CEO Braintribe)
* Gabriel Lansky (Attorney-at-law and Managing Partner at (LGP) Lansky, Ganzger + Partner)
TEAM:
* Thomas Labenbacher
* Robert Böhm
* Martin Melkowitsch
PITCH TYPE: EQUITY
EQUITY ON OFFER: 9.5%
MINIMUM INVESTMENT AMOUNT: $1,000
TOTAL INVESTMENT GOAL: $11,000,000
This deal is on a first come, first serve basis for our qualifying investors. For full details click here.
In our 3rd ‘Ask Me Anything’ (AMA) session with Simon Dixon, we addressed over 18 questions from our community such as the launch of our secondary market, the BF Wallet, security tokens and the impact of the crypto bear market. Enjoy the AMA video here!
In the 3rd AMA session with our CEO and Co-founder Simon Dixon, he announced that the BitFinex SPV will be our first secondary market deal to launch later this year. This will allow new qualifying investors to purchase shares from previous investors looking to sell.
More on the original BitFinex equity round case study here.
We are getting ready to launch our BF mobile Wallet for Bnk To The Future Tokens (BFT) and Security Tokens. Watch the BF wallet dev. team demonstrate the different functionalities and step by step guide to using the BF wallet app. You can watch the demo video here.
One of our portfolio companies Bitcoin Romania recently offered a share buyback to early investors that wanted to cash in for an early return.
Check out it latest technical update blog post here.
Our CEO and co-founder Simon Dixon was recently interviewed by Andy Hoffman discussing the market situation, future of BTC, ETH and BCH as well as security tokens and monetary policy.
Bnk To The Future Tokens (BFT) are now available to purchase on EthFinex, Bitfinex, Gate.io, Huobi, Upbit, and Bittrex. You can stay up-to-date with the BFT market on CoinMarketCap here .
We have now passed $613,800,000 invested in funding rounds listed on our Online Investment Platform. We thank every investor who has contributed to an investment in the Future of Finance and Technology. More details can be found on our home page.
We have paid our Bnk To The Future Professional Investor Members over 942,000 dividends and over $21,600,000 has been returned through our dividend paying funds.
We are delighted to have over 65,000 (and counting) real active registered BF Professional Investor Members on our Online Investment Platform who are waiting for more Financial Innovation & Technology Investment opportunities to invest in. Click here to find an opportunity you like.
If you are involved in Financial Innovation & Technology then we would love to receive your application and explore if you can raise investment with us. Whether you have an ICO / Token Sale, equity or other offering, then you may like to note that about 98% of companies that have listed on our Online Investment Platform so far have raised at least their minimum funding goal. You can make a quick application for finance here and we will follow up.
BFT Token holders are given priority access to all deals before anyone else. To receive priority access deals (PAD) newsletters and updates, please make sure you maintain a balance of 10,000 BFT on your BnkToTheFuture.com account to receive such important notifications. Currently you can purchase BFT on either EthFinex, Bitfinex, Gate.io, Huobi, Upbit, and Bittrex .
BF Tokens (BFT) are listed on Bitfinex, a top 5 digital asset trading platform. DISCLAIMER: Bnk To The Future is a shareholder in BitFinex and they previously listed an equity deal on our platform.
Huobi is one of the largest volume exchange and crypto trading platform with an Asia-focused (also global) client base. BFT are listed on Huobi for trading.
Bittrex is one of the larger crypto-to-crypto exchanges and the latest exchange to start trading BFT.
Upbit is a Korean crypto-to-crypto and Korean Won exchange and is launched by the biggest messaging app developer in Korea – Kakao. BFT are listed on Upbit for trading.
Gate.io is a top 20 cryptocurrency exchange platform that was first to make a trading market in BFT.
BFT can also be purchased on EthFinex – an Ethereum based hybrid exchange and information platform.