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Secondary Markets Bring Promise of Efficient Markets

6/15/2017

 
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Private transactions, both private equity and debt, have been inefficient and littered with information asymmetry due to the way the transactions have been made. The emergence of public distribution of information on private transactions seeks to change that and the quickly arriving secondary markets for private transactions can bring liquidity and efficiency to typically cumbersome asset classes. 


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Investments at Record High in Fintech

5/30/2016

 
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The last quarter of 2015 saw a reduction in investments into the fintech sector, with a sensible decrease from the incredible numbers of the previous quarters. Market analysts started to become skeptical that the industry could continue to grow at the same pace, with a slowdown for the start of the year that was foregone. However, the reality turned out to be a different story, with another record quarter of backing for new innovation in the financial services sector. 

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The Netherlands Update Online Equity Investing Rules

3/29/2016

 
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On April 1st, 2016, a new crowdfunding decree will enter into force in the Netherlands. This is the result of an effort started by The Netherlands Authority for Financial Markets (AFM) in December 2014, when they published a report on crowdfunding, drawing attention to perceived problems in the current regulations and offering their recommendations about how the digital investing market in the country could develop more sustainably.
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New Rules for Equity Crowdfunding in Italy

3/14/2016

 
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On February 24, 2016, the Italian securities market regulator (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa, Consob), updated the regulations for equity based crowdfunding. It was published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on March 4, 2016, with the new rules effective since March 5, 2016.
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SEC Investor Bulletin on Securities-Based Crowdfunding

2/25/2016

 
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On February 16, 2016, the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issued an Investor Bulletin to educate investors about the opportunities that will arise for investors through securities-based crowdfunding (also known as equity crowdfunding, and digital investing), when the new rules will be enacted on May 16, 2016. Starting from that date, registered platforms will be able to offer securities under Title III of the JOBS Act, and companies to use crowdfunding to offer and sell securities to the investing public.

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The Informal Investor Group Dilemma

2/18/2016

 
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Private transactions are a vast, often unstructured market with a big emphasis on informal networks. Just think of all the ‘friends and family’ money in the early stage investing market, the angel networks and the importance of their activity. In recent years the uptick of small funds, ‘super angels’, online syndication and co-investment models have paved the way for various family office, smaller funds and private investor networks to question the way they operate. Could structuring the informal networks into a catalyst for larger impact bring more bang for your buck? 


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Crowd Valley Expert's Insights on the US Legal Framework for Crowdfunding

12/17/2015

 
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The JOBS Act, signed on 5 April 2012, was intended to ease the regulatory burden on smaller companies and expand and simplify the means by which such companies could raise capital. On October 30, 2015, the SEC adopted the final rules and forms implementing the new Section 4(a)(6) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), allowing issuers to sell securities to the public under certain circumstances without registering such securities with the SEC. The rules will be effective in late April 2016.
 


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Portuguese Financial Authority Drafts Rules for Securities Crowdfunding

12/11/2015

 
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In August 2015 Portugal adopted a law for online investing which is described in this article. Such law has been translated into rules by  the local financial markets authority, Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), which released this week a first draft,  open for public comments until the 21st January 2016.

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Online Investing in the Baltic States

12/3/2015

 
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While much is known on online investing in Western Europe, less information is available on how the sector is developing in the Eastern part of the continent. Therefore we thought to take a closer look to the situation in the Baltic States, namely Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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Building a Title III Crowdfunding Platform with the Crowd Valley API

11/26/2015

 
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Following the SEC's seminal decision in October 2015 to approve Title III of the 2012 JOBS Act, opening online investing to retail investors, developers are contacting us to find out how to create a Title III platform when the regulations are enabled in 2016.

This webinar entitled "Building a Title III Crowdfunding Platform with the Crowd Valley API" can help you get started. 

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