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July 18, 2016 @ 3:08 pm By Nathan Rose  |  

“Since the Enlightenment there has been a very simple but widely held assumption that we are a species of thinking individuals and human behaviour is best understood by examining the psychology of individuals. It appears, however, that this insight is plain wrong. The evidence from… Read More

July 17, 2016 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

FundedHere, a licensed crowdfunding platform based in Singapore that targets start-ups in Southeast Asia and Greater China, has announced it will be assisting SGX listed companies to raise capital via short-term bonds of up to S$5 million each.  FundedHere was the first crowdfunding platform to… Read More

July 17, 2016 @ 11:57 am By Robert Wardrop & Tania Ziegler  |  

  Across Europe, crowdfunding is quickly moving from a fringe funding instrument to becoming a mainstream – finance channel, connecting “crowds” to fund businesses, projects and individuals. In its recently published Report on Crowdfunding in the EU Capital Markets Union, the European Commission details the… Read More

July 15, 2016 @ 11:58 am By JD Alois  |  

WeFunder, an investment crowdfunding platform, has quickly jumped out of the gate to become the leading listing site for Reg CF issuers. Someone recently asked Crowdfund Insider how WeFunder was sourcing so many deals. WeFunder explained they are mainly finding companies the “old-fashioned way”, face to… Read More

July 14, 2016 @ 10:14 pm By Scott Woodley  |  

The truth is that for many entrepreneurs valuing your company is one part industry analysis, two parts assessing your traction to date and ten parts finger-in-the-air guessing or back of a beer mat maths. But there are ways to get help – here’s how we… Read More

July 14, 2016 @ 2:12 pm By Thomas Howard  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will look to ensure that consumers are sufficiently protected against the risks inherent in crowdfunding while supporting innovation in the growing market in a forthcoming review of its regulation of the industry. Crowdfunding rules were introduced by the FCA in… Read More

July 13, 2016 @ 9:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Do Online Lenders Benefit from Regulatory Arbitrage? Yesterday (July 12), the subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit (part of the House Financial Services Committee) hosted an educational hearing on Fintech and Marketplace Lending. The meeting saw the participation of several industry executives including… Read More

July 12, 2016 @ 3:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise deserves much credit for being a trailblazer in the real estate crowdfunding sector of finance. Officially launched in 2012, the concept of Fundrise was crafted before the JOBS Act even existed. Entrepreneurs and brothers, Ben and Dan Miller, conceived a plan to allow residents… Read More

July 11, 2016 @ 4:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Revolut (as in Revolutionary), a new application to instantly send and spend money globally, has captured solid VC support.  In 2015, Crowdfund Insider reported the company had raised £1.5 million from Balderton Capital as the founder and CEO Nikolay Storonsky explained, “Revolut has an ambition to… Read More

July 11, 2016 @ 10:29 am By Amy Wan  |  

Regulation A+, which revamped the old Regulation A, became effective on June 19, 2015—just over a year ago. Here’s what we’ve seen during the past year of utilization: Statistics: Approximately 105 publicly-filed Regulation A+ filings to date, with approximately 44 of those filings qualified by… Read More

July 10, 2016 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The number of corporate accelerators has grown dramatically in recent years with Fintech playing a central role. Corporate accelerators now number 131 globally with 13 launching this year. But this number represents a dramatic slow down versus last year when 46 accelerators launched. This is… Read More

July 10, 2016 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The budding Marijuana industry has attracted a legion of “ganjapreneurs” seeking the chance to cash in on the US movement to legalize and legitimize Cannabis. ArcView Group, a “hub for investment, data and progress” estimates the industry will drive around $7 billion in revenue during 2016…. Read More

July 7, 2016 @ 11:08 pm By Therese Torris  |  

In the troubled post-Brexit context, many leaders in the UK traditional and alternative financial services are trying to reassure their market and even to present the Brexit vote as an opportunity for the UK. Their statements read like reactions of the French after a soccer… Read More

July 6, 2016 @ 6:44 pm By Therese Torris  |  

When Lending Club, as the worldwide leader in P2P/marketplace lending and, for that matter, in the entire global crowdfunding market, runs into trouble, it is bound to send ripples way beyond its home market, the United States. And it does. The fast emerging French crowdlending… Read More

July 5, 2016 @ 5:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

ASMX Sets Out to Tame “Wild West” of Reg A+. ASMX Capital is a “one stop shop” for Reg A+ funding. Founded by Wes Johnson and David Dobkin, the duo envisions a platform that provides a full suite of advisory services for smaller companies seeking… Read More

July 4, 2016 @ 12:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdcube is raising more money and this time they are going big. In their last funding round, Crowdcube raised £1.2 million in a crowdfunding round alongside a £3.8 million investment from Balderton.  With this funding round, they are filing a prospectus meaning they can hurdle… Read More

July 4, 2016 @ 12:00 pm By Therese Torris  |  

Aviva France, together with two partners, alternative asset management firm Eiffel Investment Group and insurer AG2R La Mondiale, is launching an investment fund called “Prêtons Ensemble” (Lending together) dedicated to financing loans to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) provided through crowdlending platforms. Starting with an… Read More

July 3, 2016 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Title III of the JOBS Act, or Reg CF, kicked off on May 16th of this year. The final portion of the JOBS Act to receive final rules by the SEC, Reg CF was perhaps the most heralded aspect of the legislation. Under the securities… Read More

July 1, 2016 @ 1:55 pm By Robin Sosnow  |  

Political campaigns may have a symbiotic relationship to crowdfunding. In a sense, politicians have been crowdfunding political donations for years, even before the term was generally known. Since then, many have used actual internet-based crowdfunding campaigns in their fundraising. President Barak Obama has high hopes… Read More

June 30, 2016 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

    Patch of Land is one of the best known real estate crowdfunding platforms in the sector.  Launched soon after the signing of the JOBS Act of 2012, Patch has leveraged Title II, or accredited crowdfunding, to provide unique access to real estate investments… Read More