The European Question One problem Equity Crowdfunding campaigns in Europe sometimes face is the limitation to a certain jurisdiction and therefore a reduced market exposure. For example, a project may be very promising but having to limit it to a national market because the platform running the project only allows investors from that are nationals of …
The Securities and Exchange Commission will host a crowdfunding symposium Feb. 28, covering research, challenges, opportunities, and the effects of securities-based crowdfunding on various market participants. The Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis is partnering with NYU’s Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions to bring together regulators, practitioners, and academics for the …
When talking about Brexit, the UK’s decision to leave the European Union in a way and at a point in time yet to be determined, one of the key discussion points is that financial firms fear to loose their passporting rights. As with many Brexit discussions before and after the vote, there always seems to …
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As promised, the second part of our Equity Crowdfunding country report for Italy (the first can be found here) will look into the rules for the involved parties in more detail, but first let’s have a look at the participants: There are basically three parties to Equity Crowdfunding deals: A) the seller of shares, i.e. …
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Italy was amongst the first countries to introduce dedicated equity crowdfunding regulations in 2013 – since then firms have managed to raise only €5.5 million in investments. A report on how legislators can smother innovation and what the current regulatory framework looks like. Italy praises itself for being the first country to have regulated equity …
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The Treasury Committee has published responses from Tracey McDermott, former Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and Andrew Bailey, former Deputy Governor for Prudential Regulation, Bank of England, and former Chief Executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), to a number of questions on crowdfunding regulation. Mr Tyrie, chair of the committee, wrote …
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Today the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Call for input to the post-implementation review of the FCA’s crowdfunding rules. In this paper the regulator sets out some of the recent developments across the crowdfunding sector and a number of concerns that the FCA has identified in response. The FCA wants to gather feedback from all interested parties relating to …
The message to FinTechs from the financial markets watchdog in France is clear: industry regulations apply to you, too, and if you don’t play by our rules, we take our ball home. The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) regulates participants and products in France’s financial markets and recently created a FinTech, Innovation and Competitiveness division …
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The regulatory authority in France responsible for the oversight of participants and products in French financial markets and hence crowdfunding activities is the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF). Together with its sister organisation, ACPR (Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution – Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority), which monitors banks and insurance companies, the AMF has …
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The legislative framework of crowdfunding in the UK might come under scrutiny soon as a parliamentary committee has asked both the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England for their views on crowdfunding and its risks and opportunities. Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the treasury committee, wrote to Tracey McDermott, the acting chief executive of …
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