Follow us on
Difitek
  • News
  • What We Offer
  • Contact Us
  • Visit our Site

Crowdfuture 2 : Many Attendants, Interesting Speakers and Heated Debates

10/24/2013

 
Picture
The Second Edition of Crowdfuture

Last Saturday, the second edition  of Crowdfuture, one of the largest crowdfunding events in Europe, took place in Rome. Organized by the Italian Crowdfunding Network (ICN) and Nois3lab, the conference had a broad program and interesting national and international speakers.

The event kicked off with a plenary session in a crowded room where investors and lawyers wearing black ties were sitting together with young startuppers with colored t-shirts.

The mixed audience carefully listened to the ICN’s chairwoman presenting research on the evolution of the crowdfunding market in Italy: the sector has been growing fast, with more and more crowdfunding businesses launching this year, after the CONSOB – i.e. the Italian financial authority – adopted a regulation for equity crowdfunding. The results are in line with the findings of Crowd Valley’s Global Crowdfunding Market Report, published last week, that show that Italy is one of the main crowdfunding markets in the world. The participants then had the possibility to attend to one of five different tracks: Legal Aspects of Crowdfunding in Italy, EU Regulation, Civic Crowdfunding, Gamification and Open Source. Compared to the first edition of Crowdfuture, the second one featured more specialized topics that required at least a basic knowledge of crowdfunding to be followed.

 Is Regulation for Crowdfunding Needed?

While the most popular track was, without any doubt, the one on the Legal Aspects of Crowdfunding in Italy, the most international one was the EU Regulation track. In fact, the latter hosted both national and international panelists, such as members of the European Crowdfunding Network, of UK Crowdfunding, of the Italian Ministry of Economy and several other lawyers and crowdfunding experts from Europe. The debate in the session touched upon several aspects of the Italian regulation for equity crowdfunding and, more in general, on the regulatory efforts of the different European countries. The opinions were diverse with some convinced that every country should adopt a regulation for crowdfunding and others, instead, in favor of deregulation; some saying that CONSOB’s regulation is too restrictive and others stating the contrary.

The heated discussion brought to the shared conclusion that it is important for each European country to look at what its neighbor States are doing to ease the development of the crowdfunding market and that the EU shall play a crucial role in facilitating this process.

Picture
Born and raised in Milan, Italy, Irene is an International Business graduate, with a strong interest for innovative ideas that can simplify our lives.

During her studies, she co-founded an online community for sportspeople and worked in marketing positions at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising and at the European Business Angel Network, in Brussels. She is a passionate blogger about crowdfunding and the startup ecosystem.






Comments are closed.

    RSS Feed

       

    Categories

    All
    All Sectors
    Americas
    API
    Asia
    Australasia
    Clean Energy
    Crowd Valley
    CTO Blog
    Difitek
    Equity Investment
    Europe
    Events
    Expert Analysis
    Fintech
    Global
    Interview
    Lending
    Local Funding Network
    Marketing
    Market Watch
    Oceania
    Platform Updates
    Presentations
    Press Release
    Real Estate
    Regulations
    Russia
    Social Capital
    Webinar

Back to Difitek website


Copyright 2018 Crowd Valley Inc. 
All Rights Reserved.

Crowd Valley does not engage in the offer, sale or transfer of securities and securities may not be offered, sold or transferred via this website. Securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent (i) registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act) or (ii) an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act. Please consult legal counsel in the appropriate jurisdiction before offering, selling or buying securities as registration under the Securities Act or similar state legislation may be required.

Please note that the provision of the information on this website does not create and is not intended to create a relationship between Crowd Valley Inc. and any other person. You are not and should not regard yourself as being a client or customer of Crowd Valley Inc. and must not expect Crowd Valley Inc. to have any duties or responsibilities to you, act for you or your clients, or be responsible for providing protections afforded to customers or yourselves or be responsible for advising you in any respect.