Showing posts with label crowdfunding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crowdfunding. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 April 2017

EU Looks To CrowdInvesting To Plug Post-Brexit SME Capital Gap

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has responded to an EU consultation on capital markets with a plea for the Europea...
Wednesday, 22 June 2016

Forking The DAO - Robin Hood Update

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No, this is not science fiction: the Ethereum world really has been rocked by financial scandal, and has less than a month to resolve it....
Wednesday, 31 December 2014

Credit Where It's Due

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Having spent the past seven years banging on about the changes needed to democratise the financial system, it's only fitting that m...
Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Good News For #FinTech And #Crowdfunding in Autumn Statement

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The government has announced bad debt relief for lending through P2P platforms; a consultation on whether to extend ISA eligibility to c...
Friday, 20 December 2013

2013: Levelling The Financial Playing Field

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Six years of financial crisis have finally produced some of the legal changes that will expose the cosy world of regulated financial serv...
Friday, 13 December 2013

Failure Is Key To The Success Of Equity CrowdInvesting

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An odd article on page 20 of today's FT suggests that the failure of some ventures to raise money somehow puts 'crowdfunding...
Thursday, 31 October 2013

Matched Funding For UK SME Lending Platforms

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At a ‘FinTech’ Cabinet Office workshop on Monday, we were informed/reminded that the " Business Bank " created by the Departmen...
Thursday, 24 October 2013

Crowdfunding Regulatory Arbitrage - Updated

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October is 'crowdfunding month' out there in the regulatory world. The European Commission is consulting . The SEC is consulting ...
Wednesday, 12 June 2013

A Directory of Crowdfunding Directories?

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Crowdfunding directories are becoming useful, given the wide variety of potential models, specific geographic and other constraints, an...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Kickstarter's Kick In The Butt For UK Banks

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The news that Kickstarter, a US rewards-based crowdfunding operator, has opened a dedicated UK platform is hugely encouraging for anyone...
Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Careful What You Incentivise

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Two things seem to be choking the flow of money to people and small businesses in the UK: broken regulation and perverse incentives. ...
Friday, 21 September 2012

UK Takes Joined-up Regulatory Approach To P2P Finance

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The UK government has announced a cross-departmental working group to support the sustainable development of peer-to-peer finance (aka ...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012

CrowdPosts

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If you have a passion for the regulatory intricacies of alternative finance, you might check out my recent posts over on The Fine Print ....
Saturday, 21 April 2012

Crowdfunding Politics And The Public Sector

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In Lipstick on a Pig , I looked at why facilitators will triumph over institutions in the markets for retail financial services. I'...
Friday, 25 November 2011

Permanent Occupation

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Here's an idea. Every city with a financial district should erect a substantial monument to the ' occupations ' in the heart ...
Wednesday, 16 November 2011

A New Regulatory Model For Retail Finance

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Over on The Fine Print , I see that my professional alter ego has updated his post on a proposed new regulatory model for retail finance ...