Tagged: access to capital

March 1, 2024 @ 1:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Research conducted by the British Business Bank reports that bank lending dropped in 2023, delivering an amount similar to 2016. At the same time, equity capital in smaller firms cratered to levels near those in 2020. When looking more closely at private equity financing, 2023… Read More

February 6, 2023 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

CI recently published an update on Reg CF [Regulation Crowdfunding], an exemption that allows a business to raise up to $5 million in an online securities offering. Investors may be non-accredited or accredited. While the legislation creating Reg CF was signed into law in 2012,… Read More

February 5, 2021 @ 1:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently, the SEC’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (OASB) shared a presentation outlining the performance of securities exemptions during 2020. The presentation reviewed the utilization of Reg D, Reg A+, and Reg CF as these are the main avenues to raise… Read More

November 2, 2017 @ 11:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment, has scheduled a hearing to discuss, “Legislative Proposals to Improve Small Businesses’ and Communities’ Access to Capital”. This hearing, which will be live streamed on the HFSC site, is scheduled to take place… Read More

June 11, 2015 @ 12:26 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

The Malta Business Bureau and the University of Malta have signed a agreement to collaborate on developing a crowdfunding platform to finance local business ideas and projects, according to a recent story on the University of Malta’s website. The country’s Ministry for the Economy, Investment and Small Business will… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 11:19 am By Dan Gilmartin, Dr. Elisabeth Gerber & Chris Miller  |  

What would happen if we could invest in businesses in our own communities? What would happen if that entrepreneur you know could raise the capital needed to start a business from friends and neighbors and investors who are intimately familiar with the project? Michigan citizens… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 8:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Often times crowdfunding in the United States is discussed as a dichotomy. On one hand you have the brand of crowdfunding that takes place now, the donation- and rewards-based models that fuel sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and countless others. On the other hand you have… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 8:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

CRIEnglish.com reported yesterday that South Korea is looking to legalize equity crowdfunding, seemingly spurred on by the United States’s passage of the JOBS Act. From the article… South Korea planned to legalize the crowd funding system as part of efforts to help venture companies finance… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 12:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Events Will Bring Together Small Businesses with Lenders and Experts in Chicago, Atlanta and Seattle Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. has announced that registration is open for its Access to Capital: Money to Mainstreet Event which will be held Wednesday, May 22, 2013 “With over… Read More