Brexit Thematic Portfolio

BMxBRXT

Brexit Thematic Portfolio creates a unique opportunity to capitalize on one of the most important events in modern European history, Brexit. The portfolio tracks the performance of the largest UK exporting companies that are predisposed to benefit from the Brexit event.

More innovative investment opportunities to come!

Four new products were added to the Blackmoon Platform this month. We are not content with these achievements and will continue providing our users with innovative investment opportunities. In the nearest future, our product collection will expand significantly, so stay tuned!

Handy links to stay tuned to our updates:

website: blackmoonplatform.com
telegram channel: https://t.me/blackmooncryptochannel
info video: https://youtu.be/6Ii0XckQOAE


DISCLAIMER

Investment in financial instruments carries a significant risk of loss and may not BE suitable for every investor. Before purchasing our investment products, please consider your level of experience, investment objectives and risk appetite, and consult an independent financial or legal advisor to ensure the product meets your objectives. Please note that your investments do not have capital protection and carry a risk of loss, including the loss of the entire investment amount; therefore, you should not risk the capital you cannot afford to lose. This material is presented for information purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or investment advice.

In a Nutshell: Investors today have more ways than ever to diversify and grow their portfolios. But, until recently, traditional investment platforms rarely crossed paths with cryptocurrency investment platforms. Blackmoon, a financial services company that uses blockchain technology to facilitate both fiat and crypto investments through its tokenization strategy, intends to change that. The company is continually evaluating how it can offer more investment options to its users and partners. In February, Blackmoon announced its Water Thematic Portfolio, which allows investors to handily invest in a selection of funds related to the water industry. And, in March, the company announced a partnership with Plato to create a on-the-fly branded Exchange Traded Indexes.



Technology-savvy investors today are faced with more options than ever to leverage the latest advances in fintech to expand their portfolios.

Many leading investment platforms offer similar versions of the same services. And until recently, investors had to go to separate platforms for fiat and cryptocurrency investments.

With Blackmoon, investors and asset managers can access advantages offered by both of these worlds through its tokenized investment strategy. “We’re a financial services company that uses blockchain technology to create opportunities for investors to use fiat or cryptocurrency to invest in our portfolios,” said Moshe Joshua, the Chief Product Officer at Blackmoon.

The company offers the only operational blockchain investment platform that, according to its site, boasts “fully automated strategies that deliver returns 24 hours a day” and a simplified user experience.


A Financial Services Company Using Blockchain to Facilitate a Wide Range of Investment Opportunities

In the finance world these days, the term token is associated with the cryptocurrency space — and rightfully so.

Tokens are a form of cryptocurrency, but they are different from coins. Cryptocurrency coins, such as Bitcoin, come with the same characteristics as real-world money. Coin owners can use coins to procure goods or services in the same way fiat money can procure goods and services.

Tokens, however, are digital assets issued by a particular project or company. The tokens may be used for payment within the company ecosystem, but they also allow the token owner to participate in the platform that distributed the tokens.
Moshe Joshua



Moshe Joshua is the Chief Product Officer at Blackmoon.

Consider a Las Vegas casino.

Gamblers exchange their fiat money for tokens that enable them to participate in the ecosystem of the casino. The tokens function like currency while they are in the casino playing games and possibly winning more tokens.

But, outside of the casino, those same tokens are basically useless in the real world. That’s why people cash in their tokens before they leave.

Blackmoon has created a way to tokenize real-world investment funds within a unified tool that offers advantages of the fiat and cryptocurrency worlds to investors.

Joshua told The Fintech Times that making an investment is a difficult task to accomplish at an operational level. “For every fund manager that’s actually making trading decisions and taking risks, there are probably five other people surrounding him as his support — the fund administrator, the auditor, the compliance office, the CFO, and everybody that’s sitting on top of him,” he said.

And that doesn’t even take into consideration reporting requirements, illiquidity, brokers, exchanges, reconciliations, and numerous fraud protections.

“The whole blockchain paradigm removes a lot of that inefficiency,” Joshua said. “We as a platform have made it really convenient and easy to use to ensure all of those same investor protections in a compliant and regulated atmosphere at a much better, cheaper, faster level.”

Blackmoon’s Asset Tokens allow investors to gain access to a variety of hedge funds, ETFs, and investment strategies available on the Blackmoon Platform.

“Blackmoon makes application of the blockchain to the asset management a reality. Blackmoon is a one-stop solution for fund managers to tokenize their investment funds in a compliant way,” according to the website.

The company announced in February that investors can now fund their accounts using credit or debit cards in any currency.


Blackmoon Launches Its First Thematic Portfolio Which is Centered Around Water Funds

In March, Blackmoon announced its entry into the world of thematic portfolios with its water-themed group of funds.

“A thematic portfolio is composed of stocks bundled together by the same theme/idea,” according to an announcement from Blackmoon. “The best part of it is that instead of buying dozens of separate stocks, an investor can purchase only one product of a chosen theme.”

The Water Thematic Portfolio invests in companies involved in water and water-related industries.

“Water is used everywhere and hardly ever efficiently. A major part of expenditure is agriculture, around 70%. If we could save 10% of it, it would increase the resource for other uses by almost a quarter,” according to Blackmoon.



The company is predicting that not only is the value of water set to increase in the coming years, so is the cost of various water-related services. With the Water Thematic Portfolio, investors will have broad exposure to the important industry.

“The portfolio is composed of companies that represent different sectors involved in the water industry worldwide, including water treatment, filtering, management, desalination, reservation, distribution, heating, and others,” according to Blackmoon.

The investment fund also contains companies that are involved in agricultural water management and engineering solutions for effective water management.

Blackmoon backtested the performance of water-related companies and discovered that, historically, the industry performed better than the overall equity market tended to rebound faster from dips.

“This is the first release from the new series of investment opportunities for our users,” according to Blackmoon. “In the near future, our product collection will expand significantly, so stay tuned.”

Partnering with Plato to Create On-the-Fly Exchange Traded Indexes


Blackmoon also recently announced a new partnership with Plato Technologies, Inc., “a Blockchain-centric search and intelligence engine that allows users to gain secure access to deep, real-time information and data across the blockchain space.”

The goal of the strategic partnership is to create on-the-fly branded Exchange Traded Indexes (ETx).

“The unique relationship between Blackmoon and Plato will allow them to work closely in order to produce the real-time ETx strategies that will be directly linked to Plato’s secure data across the blockchain space,” according to the press release.


A strategic partnership between Blackmoon and Plato is the first of several partnerships Blackmoon anticipates in the coming months.

Although blockchain technology may prove to be a better alternative through which companies can raise investor money, price discovery and trading liquidity require speculators to be included.

“The ETx that Blackmoon issues on behalf of its partners’ brands incentivize traders and speculators to take the risk in the market, by offering them a fungible financial product to arbitrage for profit — further adding bids and offers to an STO that would otherwise not exist — effectively creating a balanced and stable price,” according to the press release.

Joshua said Blackmoon and Plato maintain a shared vision of the world of investments.

“Our partnership with Plato has been well received and we have already produced some momentum in going forward. We are keen on capitalizing on this energy by working together to release the Plato on-the-fly ETx ‘ s soon and produce a global investment opportunity for investors,” said Oleg Seydak, CEO of Blackmoon.

The strategic partnership between Blackmoon and Plato is one of many that Blackmoon envisions forming in the coming months, according to Blackmoon. The company’s vision is to have an entire suite of ETx’s to offer Blackmoon clients as well as the clients of its partners.

Blackmoon has other exciting developments around the corner as well. The company announced in March that it will offer the opportunity for investors to receive access to Lyft’s upcoming IPO. The offering will be available for all Blackmoon users, with some exceptions based on regional restrictions. And Blackmoon removes the lock-up period for users so they can start trading soon after the IPO.

With Blackmoon’s tokenized approach to finance, investors now have a one-stop platform in which they can invest, trade, and manage both fiat and cryptocurrency assets.

Editorial Note: Opinions expressed here are the author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airline or hotel chain, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities.




DISCLAIMER

Investment in financial instruments carries a significant risk of loss and may not BE suitable for every investor. Before purchasing our investment products, please consider your level of experience, investment objectives and risk appetite, and consult an independent financial or legal advisor to ensure the product meets your objectives. Please note that your investments do not have capital protection and carry a risk of loss, including the loss of the entire investment amount; therefore, you should not risk the capital you cannot afford to lose. This material is presented for information purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or investment advice.

Following the recent releases of our first Thematic Portfolio
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Water and Lyft Inc. IPO, we are glad to roll out the second Thematic Portfolio
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eGaming.

E-what?

The industries of video gaming and electronic sports are developing at an extraordinary rate. Gaming competitions are becoming much more professional gathering huge prize pools, attracting millions of viewers and massive sponsorship contracts. In many countries, at a domestic level, eSports have been classified as a sport.

Moreover, special video games streaming platforms are becoming a new source of entertainment for the younger generation completely replacing TV and even becoming a huge threat to the modern-day sources of entertainment, like Youtube. Notably, Youtube now has a special section dedicated to video games streaming. Just a few days ago, Google announced that they are expanding into the industry by launching the Stadia cloud gaming platform. This move alone should be a clear indicator (and erase all doubts) that this industry has a lucrative future.

Watching, playing and learning about new games have become a part of daily routine for millions. These factors, accompanied by game development companies and hardware manufacturers, are turning eGaming into serious multilateral business.

The Blackmoon eGaming Thematic Portfolio provides you with broad exposure to this burgeoning industry.

The video game industry could be worth as much as $138 billion by the end of the year, according to a market research firm.
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CNBC


Strategy

The portfolio is composed of companies that represent different sectors involved in the development of the eGaming industry, including game development, hardware manufacturing, video games streaming, and digital game distribution.

The underlying portfolio of stocks is equally dollar weighted and automatically rebalanced every quarter.

Here is the backtested performance:

Gross of fees. As the benchmark, we used the Nasdaq Composite Index since most of the companies in the portfolio are traded there. The backtested results are given solely for explanatory purposes and do not indicate or guarantee future results.

The backtested results show that, historically, eGaming-related companies outperformed the broader equity market and tend to rebound faster after the market turmoils, renewing all-time highs.

Key companies influencing the eGaming industry are represented by different countries and continents, shares are traded on various exchanges in different jurisdictions and time zones. Due to the clunkiness of traditional investing, it might be a challenge to get exposure to this rapidly emerging industry. On the Blackmoon Platform, this problem can be solved in a matter of a few clicks.

More information, including the full list of stocks, is available on the product page.

More innovative investment opportunities to come!to come!

Three new products were added to the Blackmoon Platform this month. We are not content with these achievements and will continue providing our users with innovative investment opportunities. In the nearest future, our product collection will expand significantly, so stay tuned!

Handy links to stay tuned to our updates:

website: blackmoonplatform.com
telegram channel: https://t.me/blackmooncryptochannel
info video: https://youtu.be/6Ii0XckQOAE


DISCLAIMER

Investment in financial instruments carries a significant risk of loss and may not BE suitable for every investor. Before purchasing our investment products, please consider your level of experience, investment objectives and risk appetite, and consult an independent financial or legal advisor to ensure the product meets your objectives. Please note that your investments do not have capital protection and carry a risk of loss, including the loss of the entire investment amount; therefore, you should not risk the capital you cannot afford to lose. This material is presented for information purposes only and does not constitute a solicitation or investment advice.

Lyft Inc., valued at $15.1 billion on the private markets in its last funding round, is aiming for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) valuation of $20 billion to $25 billion in late March-early April, according to Bloomberg. Blackmoon offers a unique opportunity for investors to get exposure to the performance of Lyft Inc. shares starting right from the IPO date.

In this article, we will shed light on the upcoming offering, and what to do, if you want to participate.

Why our offering is unique?


First, let’s imagine how would average retail investors act to participate in this IPO and the difficulties they will face.

Receiving access to IPO. Most of the wealth managers and brokers do not provide access to a primary market, simply because they do not have proper infrastructure, necessary to facilitate such operations, which is usually associated with institutional business, run by bigger market players. Thus most of the smaller retail orientated brokers tend to focus on secondary market services, which is much more cost effective.
Receiving allocation, once the order is placed. Typically IPO allocation is broken into two tranches: Retail and Institutional, with a proportion of around 10% to 90%. Retail investors are always left in the shadow because syndicate banks who are running IPOs tend to reward their biggest institutional customers by providing sizeable allocations in the primary market. Thus it’s very hard for the retail investors to receive an allocation when a manager of a Hedge fund is placing tens of millions of dollars.

Both of these problems are eliminated on the Blackmoon Platform since (i) the offering is available for all of our users (regional restrictions apply); (ii) currently, we serve mostly retail clients, thus no pressure from institutional investors here.

Moreover, unlike your local broker, we do not require your physical presence to pass verification, the process is fast, straightforward and excludes depressing red tape.

No lock-up Period
Finally, what makes our offering truly unique
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we removed the lock-up period for our users, and you can start trading soon after the IPO!

More about Lyft Inc.

Transportation is a massive market. In 2017 in the US, transportation was the second largest household expenditure after housing and was almost twice as large as healthcare and three times as large as entertainment.

In 2012, Lyft launched its peer-to-peer marketplace for on-demand ridesharing and have continued to pioneer innovations aligned with revolutionizing of transportation. In December 2018, Lyft’s U.S. ridesharing market share was already 39%, up from 22% in just two years. This growth comes from both new drivers and riders as well as increased ride frequency. For the quarter ended December 31, 2018, the company had 18.6 million active riders and over 1.1 million drivers who provided rides. The company currently operates in over 300 markets across the United States and Canada, each with its own unique user network.

The company shows impressive growth in revenue in recent years, with a 209% increase in 2017 and 103% in 2018.



Lyft’s multimodal platform is currently developing in 4 segments.

Ridesharing Marketplace

The company’s core offering since 2012 connects drivers with riders who need to get somewhere.

Bikes and Scooters

A network of shared bikes and scooters to address the needs of riders who are looking for lower-priced, more active and often more efficient options for short trips during heavy traffic.

Public Transit

The company’s Nearby Transit offering integrates third-party public transit data into the Lyft app to offer riders a robust view of transportation options.

Autonomous Vehicles

The company has a number of strategic partnerships to offer access to autonomous vehicles.

The company shows remarkable growth in its key metrics
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the number of rides and active riders.


Lyft defines Active Riders as all riders who take at least one ride on Lyft’s multimodal platform through the Lyft app during a quarter. An Active Rider is identified by a unique phone number.

Despite the company hasn’t started converting revenues into profits yet, it has a huge market share in the ridesharing industry of the US and further growth potential in all segments of transportation services. For a better understanding of the company, you can study Lyft’s IPO prospectus.

How to participate?

During the book building period, Blackmoon is accepting primary market orders for the IPO. To participate, the Platform user has to follow this simple procedure:

1. Purchase BookLyft product for the nominal value, which he intends to place for the IPO.
2. Before the first trading day, the IPO results will be released and, in case of successful allocation, BookLyft product will be converted to BMxLYFT at a certain exchange rate.
3. BMxLYFT will be priced at the gross IPO price and will provide investors with exposure to the performance of Lyft Inc. shares.
4. In case of oversubscription, the allocation will be conducted on a pro rata basis. All unallocated funds will be returned to the investor’s dashboard in the currency of the initial purchase.

Despite the 91-day lock-up for common Lyft IPO participants outside the Blackmoon Platform, BMxLYFT will be easily tradable for our users soon after the IPO!

For more information and to apply for the allocation, please, visit the Blackmoon Platform.

Handy links to stay tuned to our updates:

website: blackmoonplatform.com
telegram channel: https://t.me/blackmooncryptochannel
info video: https://youtu.be/6Ii0XckQOAE

DISCLAIMER

Investment in cryptocurrencies carries a high degree of risk and volatility and is not suitable for every investor; therefore, you should not risk the capital you cannot afford to lose. Please consult an independent professional financial or legal advisor to ensure the product meets your objectives before you decide to invest. Regional restrictions and suitability checks apply.

Recent changes on the Blackmoon Platform are so important that they deserve a dedicated article. Now you can:

ł Use your credit and debit cards to deposit and withdraw money.
Ű Make bank wire transfers to your account.
± Immediately buy and sell tokens on the Platform using your Blackmoon Wallet.

If you are inspired to see it all with your own eyes, follow this link.
ł Credit and debit cards transfers

Investors can use their Visa to deposit and withdraw money to and from the Platform. The process is super easy:

Log in to your Blackmoon account.
Click the deposit button on the Dashboard screen.

3. Enter euro amount you want to deposit and click next. You can use a card in any currency just like you do when shopping online.



4. Enter your card details and click deposit. Blackmoon doesn’t store your card data.



5. The money will appear in your balance within a minute. Hit refresh, and you’ll see your money ready for investment.



Withdrawal process follows the same logic.

Registered users can deposit up to 1,000 euro, while verified users enjoy unlimited deposits.
Ű Bank wires

To make the deposit process of fiat money even more convenient for the investors, Blackmoon now supports bank wires. Blackmoon supports both major standards of bank transfers: SWIFT and SEPA. To make a bank wire, you may:

Log in to your Blackmoon account.
Click the deposit button on the Dashboard screen and select Bank.


Funding your balance using Bank Wire.

3. Choose the type of transfer. It’s simple: if your bank is not in the EU, go for SWIFT, otherwise, use SEPA.

4. In a separate window, log in to your bank and select transfers.

5. Copy and paste details from step 3 and click send.

Pro tip 1: Start with IBAN, the bank may automatically populate other fields once you enter it. You will still have to enter the Reference code though.
Pro tip 2: Clicking the “Copy” icon next to the field will copy the information to your clipboard for you to paste.



6. The money will appear in your balance within two business days for SEPA and five business days for SWIFT.
± The Blackmoon Wallet: instant buying and selling, 24/7

You can now see all your tokens, BTC, ETH as well as EUR in The Blackmoon Wallet, immediately available for investment.



Introduction of The Blackmoon Wallet significantly improves the convenience and speed of using the Blackmoon Platform. Now, whenever the opportunity arises, you are free to make a trade within a few clicks:

1. Hover over the asset and click Buy or Sell button.



2. Select the currency for the investment. Note, that you should deposit this currency (EUR, ETH or BTC) first to your Wallet.

3. Enter the number of assets you are going to buy. The amount of currency to be paid will be calculated automatically to the right. Check the order and click buy.



4. The required amount of the asset will be simultaneously delivered to your Blackmoon Wallet and shown on the Dashboard.

Nice and easy, isn’t it? What is more, now you can trade all the instruments both traditional and crypto 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Unparalleled experience and total control over your investments.

Crypto deposits

Both asset tokens and cryptocurrencies could be easily deposited from the external addresses.

1. Log in to your Blackmoon account.
2. Click the deposit button on the Dashboard screen and select cryptocurrency.



3. Choose the token from the dropdown.



4. Open your Wallet for the external address in a separate window and send tokens to the address from step 3.

5. Once the transaction is mined, you will see the tokens in your Blackmoon Wallet.

You can see all your transactions in your Blackmoon Wallet on the transaction screen.



Don’t take our word for granted, check out all this cool functionality by yourself on the Blackmoon Platform. Click. Trade. Invest. We do all the hard work for you.

Handy links to stay tuned to our updates:

website: blackmoonplatform.com
telegram channel: https://t.me/blackmooncryptochannel
info video: https://youtu.be/6Ii0XckQOAE

DISCLAIMER

Investment in cryptocurrencies carries a high degree of risk and volatility and is not suitable for every investor; therefore, you should not risk the capital you cannot afford to lose. Please consult an independent professional financial or legal advisor to ensure the product meets your objectives before you decide to invest. Regional restrictions and suitability checks apply.

To complement the recent releases of the new dashboard and debit/credit card deposits, as promised, we are expanding the list of innovative investment opportunities for our investors.

We are glad to present a new category of products:

Thematic Portfolios

A thematic portfolio is composed of stocks bundled together by the same theme/idea. The best part of it is that instead of buying dozens of separate stocks, an investor can purchase only one product of a chosen theme. As an additional benefit, the portfolio is automatically rebalanced in accordance with a predefined method and schedule.

The first product of this kind on our platform
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Water Thematic Portfolio. The portfolio invests in companies engaged in water and related industries.

Why water?

Freshwater scarcity is already an issue in several regions, and this is only the beginning. Some regions actively turn to seawater desalination where it becomes one of the major sources of freshwater.

CNBC explains “Why water is the only smart investment for the future: Forget oil and gold. Here’s why water has become one of the world’s most valuable investments.”

Water is used everywhere and hardly ever efficiently. A major part of expenditure is agriculture, around 70%. If we could save 10% of it, it would increase the resource for other uses by almost a quarter. Even though there is no burning issue with freshwater supplies in the majority of developed countries thus far, time will teach us, and water rationing will become a necessity.

Along with the value of water, the cost of various water-related services will also increase. The Blackmoon Water Thematic Portfolio offers you broad exposure to this fundamental industry, demand for which will only grow in the foreseeable future.

Strategy

The portfolio is composed of companies that represent different sectors involved in the water industry worldwide, including water treatment, filtering, management, desalination, reservation, distribution, heating, and others. The portfolio also covers the companies engaged in water management in agriculture and engineering solutions for effective water utilization.

The underlying portfolio of stocks is equally dollar weighted and automatically rebalanced every quarter.

Here is the backtested performance:


The backtested results are given solely for explanatory purposes and do not indicate or guarantee future results.

The backtested results show that, historically, water-related companies outperformed the broader equity market and tend to rebound faster after the market turmoils, renewing all-time highs.

More information, including the full list of stocks, is available on the Blackmoon platform.

More innovative investment opportunities to come!

This is the first release from the new series of investment opportunities for our users. In the nearest future, our product collection will expand significantly, so stay tuned!

Handy links to stay tuned to our updates:

website: blackmoonplatform.com
telegram channel: https://t.me/blackmooncryptochannel
info video: https://youtu.be/6Ii0XckQOAE


DISCLAIMER

Investment in cryptocurrencies carries a high degree of risk and volatility and is not suitable for every investor; therefore, you should not risk the capital you cannot afford to lose. Please consult an independent professional financial or legal advisor to ensure the product meets your objectives before you decide to invest. Regional restrictions and suitability checks apply.