At the beginning of July the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) published on its website the guidelines for securities crowdfunding in the country, which until then has been working in different ways under to the existing legal framework.
The crowdfunding scene in Europe is evolving fast. This year France, Spain and the UK adopted regulations for securities crowdfunding, while the European Commission officially announced its support to crowdfunding, as a valid financial source, able to help fuel Europe’s sustainable growth. In Finland, like in Sweden, the crowdfunding scene has been flourishing and active for a few years now, with more and more actors getting involved.
At the beginning of July the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FIN-FSA) published on its website the guidelines for securities crowdfunding in the country, which until then has been working in different ways under to the existing legal framework. Today Crowd Valley publishes Crowdfunding Market Report for Q2 2014, unveiling the latest trends of this fast-growing industry, as observed by the company during the last quarter. We saw the world came together to watch the 2014 Brazilian FIFA World Cup from June 12 to July 13. As over a million fans from all over the world poured into Brazil to cheer for their home team, the Brazilian economy was injected with $15 million. However, economists cannot seem to agree whether the Cup has overall been negative or positive towards the Brazilian economy. We are asking how the World Cup has impacted the nation's crowdfunding industry. According to recent forecasts, China is expected to become the largest economy in the world by the end of this year. What if securities crowdfunding is allowed there? And what if it happens even before Title III is released? In April 2014, New Zealand passed a new law, granting entrepreneurs the opportunity to use crowdfunding platforms for financial lending and borrowing purposes. The Kiwis aim to be the leading nation in Asia-Pacific for crowdfunding. But unfortunately, almost 5 months after the law has been changed, the Kiwi crowdfunding industry has been stagnate. That, however, is just about to change. Recently, it is not rare to read about the so called “crowdfunding fatigue”, which indicates the feeling of some people, annoyed by too many requests for participating into crowdfunding campaigns. But does such a thing as crowdfunding fatigue actually exist? Crowdfunding has thus far been traditionally associated with technology, real-estate, start-ups, and P2P, but in recent months the mining industry has been attempting to revive from the lack of support and funding through crowdfunding. The industry is adapting itself in order to gain the support of investors; once adapted, crowdfunding will allow for the mining industry to be ‘out of this world’. With a constantly growing demand for technology infrastructure to manage innovative channels of financing, we are making use of new channels to attract talented developers. Our Certified Developer Program is a way for us to bring developers that understand our platform and APIs into the securities crowdfunding space. It's almost a year since Title II of the JOBS Act made its way into law July 10th, 2013 . Despite the ground breaking amendments to allow public solicitation of investment offerings and changes to offerings of securities sales, it still seems the industry is eagerly anticipating taking it to the next level. |
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