Crowdfunding

The CCIV and Asset Tokenisation

My focus of late has been totally on the CCIV and Asset Tokenisation. The CCIV is the new Australian corporate investment vehicle called the “Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle”. Tokenized Assets Tokenised Assets are any assets that can be divided into fractions to satisfy multiple owners. Tokenisation of artworks and digital trading cards were the first …

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Random thoughts on CCIVs

It’s early days. Not many people have heard about CCIVs. And if they have, it seems something that is not really relative to what they are doing now. Especially incumbents that support the funds’ management business. The Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle is a new framework for the regulation of financial services provided by the CCIV and …

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Parallels between ICO’s and the early days of Equity Crowdfunding

(Here is a post from 2015 when I started pushing for Crowdfunding to be moved to the Blockchain) If I go back to 2008, in the very early days of Equity Crowdfunding,  the ASSOB platform has already been operating for around four years. This meant there were plenty of learnings in place even before any …

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Real Estate Crowdfunding Researched

Came across a great read this week. Real Estate Crowdfunding: Gimmick or Game Changer? A Real Estate Crowdfunding Report which has been researched very well. You can download it here! Whenever new technology is adopted by some of the participants in an industry, it has the potential to disrupt the existing players and their roles, or …

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What Government Sell Downs can learn from Crowdfunding Techniques

Reflecting on the learnings of 300 Equity Crowdfunding raises I thought many of the tools, techniques and especially the transparency could be directly applied to Government asset sell down. With equity raises there are three aspects that tick the boxes when it comes to getting a fundable opportunity. Of course there are the analytics and supporting …

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Submission to Crowd-sourced funding Senate Economics Legislation Committee

This is my submission to Dr Kathleen Dermody, Committee Secretary, Senate Economics Legislation Committee who have the task of reviewing the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced funding) Bill 2015 [Provisions] Submission Mismatch – Not for small businesses There is a complete mismatch between the marketing of “Crowd-Sourced Funding” and what this bill will achieve. It has been touted as good for …

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Equity Crowdfunding but whose crowd is it?

This article with an Equity crowdfunding headline got me thinking. First equity crowdfunding deal in Australia for 2016 raises more than $675,000 To an entity getting funded to the tune of $675,000 is a great achievement. For a platform to facilitate this is also a great achievement. Well done! However the phrase “With three days …

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Where Equity Crowdfunding regulators are missing $60 billion

Attention and proposed regulatory changes are only being focussed on one half of equity crowdfunding’s potential. Sadly, this was once again clearly the case in today’s Australian Financial Review. “Start-ups told to grow up and respect investors in crowd equity funding row” reportedly by High-profile start-up investor Steve Baxter $5 million raises, Public Companies, AFSL intermediaries were touted …

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An Alternative Title III / Retail / Non-accredited Investors and Equity Crowdfunding Solution

Around the world there is little evidence that regulators can provide a regulatory environment to get traction in the investor aggregation space for retail equity crowdfunding raises under say $600,000. Even in the United Kingdom, where the regulator has allowed the industry to develop and has fine-tuned the regulations as they go virtually every raise …

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Investor Aggregation, Capital Raising and Equity Crowdfunding

In any equity crowdfunding platform raise there are number of aspects. An investment opportunity must be captured by the platform and built to be investor ready. Prospective investors need to be gathered and aggregated. The raise is kept compliant Gathered prospective investors need to be nurtured and welcomed as investors.   Both issuers (fundraisers) and …

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