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Initial Coin Offerings, Information Disclosure, and Fraud

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, which until today remains the most widely used digital currency worldwide, digital currencies have gained in popularity. More recently, tokens based on different...

10 January 2020

Lars Hornuf

Theresa Kück

Armin Schwienbacher

Preliminary Evidence Suggests That Female Entrepreneurs Raise Less Than Their Male Counterparts via US Equity Crowdfunding. Why?

Will crowdfunding ‘democratize’ investing and make startup capital available to a wider range of founders? Our preliminary study suggests that equity crowdfunding is not providing its expected benefits...

28 November 2018

Seth C. Oranburg

Mark Geiger

Equity Crowdfunding in New Zealand

‘Equity crowdfunding’—small Internet-based public securities offerings exempt from the usual regulations for such transactions—is an exciting new source for entrepreneurial finance, and New Zealand has emerged as a worldwide leader...

30 October 2018

Andrew A. Schwartz

The EU’s Opt-in Regulatory Framework for Crowdlending: Expediency at the Expense of FinTech Investor Protection?

Debt-based crowdfunding (‘crowdlending’ or ‘peer to peer lending’) is growing as an alternative finance market within the EU. Yet it has many risks for investors. A lack of regulation of...

14 September 2018

Deirdre Ahern

The Promise of Reward Crowdfunding

Reward crowdfunding (RC) is fundamentally different from both debt and equity crowdfunding, because the provider of funds does not buy a financial security. However, it is also different from charity...

13 February 2018

María Gutiérrez

How Do I Sell My Crowdfunded Shares? Developing Exchanges and Markets to Trade Securities Issued by Start-ups and Small Companies

Governments worldwide are increasingly recognizing that assisting the development of start-ups and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) is critical to fostering job creation and economic growth. As such, many governments...

12 February 2018

Janet Austin

Remarks on the German Regulation of Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is a buzzword that identifies a sub-set in the new forms of finance facilitated by advances in information technology usually categorized as fintech. In contrast to financial innovation that...

6 November 2017

Tobias H. Tröger

Crowdfunding Civil Justice

Crowdfunding—the aggregation of numerous but modest individual contributions through specialized online platforms—is a relatively new finance method. In the last few years, it has started its incursion into the realm...

31 October 2017

Ronen Perry

New Rules for Crowdfunding in Switzerland – A Reasonable Modernization that Raises Fundamental Questions

Until recently crowdfunding activities in Switzerland were severely restricted by banking regulations. An exuberant legal bank monopoly for the deposit taking business limited both the possibilities for project initiators to...

10 September 2017

Tizian Troxler

Cross-Border Crowdfunding – Towards a Single Crowdfunding Market for Europe

Crowdfunding - an outcome of the modern sharing economy - has experienced rapid growth in some EU Member States, notably the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. However, home...

17 August 2017

Dirk A Zetzsche

Initial Coin Offerings, Information Disclosure, and Fraud

Preliminary Evidence Suggests That Female Entrepreneurs Raise Less Than Their Male Counterparts via US Equity Crowdfunding. Why?

Equity Crowdfunding in New Zealand

The EU’s Opt-in Regulatory Framework for Crowdlending: Expediency at the Expense of FinTech Investor Protection?

The Promise of Reward Crowdfunding

How Do I Sell My Crowdfunded Shares? Developing Exchanges and Markets to Trade Securities Issued by Start-ups and Small Companies

Remarks on the German Regulation of Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding Civil Justice

New Rules for Crowdfunding in Switzerland – A Reasonable Modernization that Raises Fundamental Questions

Cross-Border Crowdfunding – Towards a Single Crowdfunding Market for Europe

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