Tagged: secondary

February 8, 2017 @ 2:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

The SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies (ACSEC) is scheduled to meet in Washington, DC next week at SEC HQ.  On the Committee’s agenda are two important issues: Secondary market liquidity for Regulation A Tier 2 and non-exchange listed companies and why companies are… Read More

January 24, 2017 @ 9:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tackling the exit challenge head on, investment crowdfunding platform StartEngine has announced the creation of a secondary market to buy and sell shares in Reg CF and Reg A+ securities. Reg CF, created by Title III of the JOBS Act, allows issuers the ability to… Read More

December 19, 2016 @ 7:00 am By David Burton  |  

Capital formation and entrepreneurship improve economic growth, productivity and real wages. Existing securities laws impede entrepreneurial capital formation. To promote prosperity, Congress and a reconstituted Securities and Exchange Commission need to systematically reduce or eliminate state and federal regulatory barriers hindering entrepreneurs’ access to capital…. Read More

November 10, 2016 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Property Partner, a UK Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform, Updates on Results of Secondary Market for Property Shares Property Partner, a crowdfunding platform for UK real estate, has said that £10 million of shares in property have been exchanged on their unique secondary marketplace. Stating “bricks… Read More

October 5, 2016 @ 4:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to multiple reports, Prosper is shutting down secondary trading for it’s loans eliminating a liquidity path for retail investors. The justification was stated as lack of demand. Bloomberg reported that Sarah Cain, a Prosper spokesperson, explained the decision as one driven by utilization; “While… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 2:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Orchard Platform connects most of the established marketplace lending platforms to institutional investors via their virtual data pipes.  The company is at the epicenter of the online lending industry and recently held a gathering of many well-known lenders this past March. During their inaugural partner… Read More

October 29, 2015 @ 9:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise, operating in Australia and New Zealand, has partnered with Auckland-based Syndex to create a secondary market to trade crowdfunded securities. The “Trans-Tasman” market is said to deliver “a new degree of maturity and sophistication to the nascent crowdfunded equity market in New Zealand”.  … Read More

September 10, 2015 @ 3:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

CircleUp, an equity crowdfunding platform that target consumer facing companies,  launched a secondary market for shareholders to trade shares last week.  According to a report in CNBC, the platform will enable investors to sell or buy shares in the CircleUp listings twice a year. Ryan… Read More

June 12, 2015 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

OTC Markets has published proposed new rules and standards for companies seeking to use newly adopted “Regulation A+,” or Title IV of the JOBS Act.  The objective is to have companies using this new exemption  to list their securities on OTCQX Best or OTCQB Venture… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowd2Fund, a regulated “five model” crowdfunding platform, has announced the launch of the Crowd Exchange, a new site that will a holders of debt or equity in private companies to sell their investments to other individuals online.  Crowd2Fund states the primary objective of the exchange… Read More

March 24, 2015 @ 11:02 am By Anthony Zeoli  |  

Earlier this month, Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar addressed the Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies in Washing D.C. In his speech (embedded below), Commissioner Aguilar echoed the sentiments of the market in arguing the need for increased liquidity in the private placement market. His… Read More