Tagged: securities and exchange commission

April 11, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Ben DiScipio  |  

Earlier this month, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a set of amendments to the exemptive framework under the Securities Act of 1933. This includes a notable update to Reg CF – increasing the funding cap from its current $1.07 million to $5 million…. Read More

April 8, 2020 @ 8:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that it is providing temporary, conditional exemptive relief for business development companies (BDCs) to enable them to make additional investments in small and medium-sized businesses. The SEC pointed out that this included firms affected by COVID-19. BDCs invest… Read More

April 8, 2020 @ 4:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Do you find the alphabet soup of securities exemptions confusing? Well, you are not alone. A more Machiavellian type would posit that exempt securities offerings were designed by lawyers knowing that the Hoi Polloi would be willing to pay top dollar to decipher the jumble… Read More

April 8, 2020 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Telegram has been engaged in an ongoing battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the sale of GRAM tokens – an offering that raised $1.7 billion. The legal fisticuffs kicked off last October when the SEC filed an emergency action and obtained a… Read More

April 6, 2020 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled an open meeting for this coming Wednesday (Apri 8, 2020) to consider amendments that may improve the ecosystem to foster access to capital for SMEs. As we all know, SMEs have been pummeled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many… Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week the SEC Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation announced a series of  “virtual coffee breaks” to engage with the public to discuss updates, trends, and perspectives on how COVID-19 is impacting raising capital. The very first virtual gather is… Read More

March 31, 2020 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has denied a requested rule change by the BOX Exchange to amend the fee schedule affiliated with entities that connect to the BOX network. On March 29, 2019, the Division of Trading and Markets at the SEC issued an… Read More

March 30, 2020 @ 6:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced two meetings of Committees that provide recommendations to the Commission. The Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies Meeting and the Investor Advisory Committee will both be holding meetings on Thursday, April 2, 2020…. Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, in an Opinion and Order from Judge P. Kevin Castel, it was decided that Telegram has failed to establish an exemption from the registration requirement under existing securities law. Telegram is an app that is a highly popular messaging service utilized by more than… Read More

March 22, 2020 @ 10:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has updated its response to COVID-19 and the related effects on the U.S. securities markets. The organization reported that its efforts are centered, first and foremost, on the health and safety of its employees as well as all… Read More

March 17, 2020 @ 4:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), the entity that lobbies on behalf of state and provincial regulators, is “urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) not to move forward with its proposal to expand access to high-risk private securities offerings to individual investors.” NASAA… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has posted an “Operating Status” notification on its website indicating that much of its DC staff have been asked to work from home during the Coronavirus outbreak. Recently, the Commission has canceled multiple meetings, according to its event page…. Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has received a default judgment against ICOBox and founder Nikolay Evdokimov for conducting an illegal $14.6 million securities offering. In a release, the SEC said that Judge Dale S. Fischer of the United States District Court for the Central… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Biancamano, the managing director and digital currency lead at giant custodian bank State Street, has argued that crypto assets will assist the private capital market in becoming the global standard for trading within the next 10 years. During a recent episode of The Block’s… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 3:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed significant changes to the exempt offering framework that should benefit issuers, investors and regulated platforms that facilitate these types of offerings. So far, industry response has been overwhelmingly positive. The proposed amendments will impact Reg CF, Reg… Read More

March 4, 2020 @ 9:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published an update on the progress of Regulation A, commonly referenced as Reg A+. When the JOBS Act of 2012 was signed into law, Regulation A received an update that took a securities exemption from just about zero… Read More

March 4, 2020 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

As Crowdfund Insider reported earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had scheduled an Open Meeting of the Commission to address access to capital for private firms. To quote the meeting memo: “The Commission will consider whether to propose rule amendments that would… Read More

March 2, 2020 @ 6:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has scheduled an open meeting for March 4, 2020, to address access to capital in private markets. The meeting appears to infer a pending rule change that may impact online capital formation. According to the note posted on the… Read More

February 27, 2020 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has posted a statement dissenting from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to, once again, decline to allow an exchange-traded product (ETP or ETF) for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin. The Commission denied NYSE Arca’s request to offer a Bitcoin… Read More

February 20, 2020 @ 5:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

As we have previously reported, Telegram is engaged in a legal battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in what may be the biggest SEC cryptocurrency case yet.  One the one side, you have Telegram that raised over a billion dollars from a digital… Read More