Volume: 6 Issue: 6
(June 2012)
Keywords:
crowdfunding
us
transformation
regulation
crowdfunding
crowdfunding
collective
pooling
resources
support
efforts
funding
new
business
new
however
support
internet
crowdfunding
Jurisdictions:
US
Crowdfunding, the collective pooling of resources to support efforts such as the funding of new business, is not new. However with the support of the internet, crowdfunding has been transformed and sites are popping up more and more, particularly in the United States, dedicated to crowdfunding. Following the amendment of the US Securities Act in April of this year raising capital through crowdfunding is set to really make a difference, as Bennet Kelley, Founder of the Internet Law Center, discusses.
Q&A: Marc Brûlé discusses the Canadian Royal Mint's MintChip project
Q&A: FinCEN and virtual currencies: the coming of clarity and ambiguity Q&A: Tony Anderson, Partner at Pinsent Masons, on the new regulator for the UK payments systems sector Q&A: O2's move into mobile commerce Q&A: Sarah Carter, General Manager, Social Business, at Actiance, about banks on social media Interview with Joseph I. Rosenbaum, Partner at Reed Smith LLP, on mobile payments & financial institutions