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Europe Heads For Integrated Crowdfunding Market
The journey to an integrated system for European crowdfunding very rules will take eight years, according to an opinion piece in Crowdfundinsider. The UK will not be a part of that journey. Is this a good thing or a bad one? We offer a taster, with more available if your interest or concern is aroused. The European Union approved new crowdfunding rules, including a €5 million funding cap, that will apply to all member states finally creating a pan-European approach to online capital formation… Currently, the securities crowdfunding market in Europe struggles under bespoke national rules that vary greatly from …
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Lending Club Closes A Chapter, Markets Turn A Page
And so it has come to pass. We’ve long kept a weather eye on the difficult journey of Lending Club, the leading direct lender in the US FinTech sector, since its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014. We’ve reported several times in News and in our Blog section. Now, Lending Club is effectively left the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector. The scepticism evident in the blog by our director of communications back then, a column also featured in City A.M., seems to have been well founded. Concerns over valuation (and the short-termism of some of the investment …