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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Trust and how the Blockchain shifts trust

  Lots of words are being used in tandem with the blockchain and trust. Decentralising trust, Re-intermediaton of trust, Shifting of trust, Unbundling trust, Reassigning trust, Earning trust, Delivering trust and Distributing trust. The effect of the shift in handling trust may surpass the earlier two milestones being the advent of double entry book keeping and …

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Intermediaries, Trust and Equity Crowdfunding

Intermediary-controlled trust has been the main game in selling shares and equity since the 1930’s. That is why regulators have latched onto intermediaries, and their existing regimes to regulate the emergence of crowdfunding. However intermediary-less trust is on its way. A truism that is getting stronger and stronger is that “the crowd will catch a …

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Blue Sky, Regulators, Crowdfunding and “The Crowd”

What the crowdfunding industry has taught us worldwide is that “the crowd” will “out” a bad actor long before any of the regulators do. Regulators came out of the USA “blue sky” laws written state by state between 1911 and 1931. In these times there was no internet, little communication from town to town, regulators …

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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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Equity Crowdfunding in China – Interview and Update

Here is a recent interview recorded in Beijing, China where I discussed equity crowdfunding and things to consider for the future. Click on the image to watch this Equity Crowdfunding video recorded in China. NB: You need to wait 20 seconds for the advertisement to play before the equity crowdfunding in China interview begins. This …

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Investor Aggregation or Serendipity … your choice in gaining investors

When it comes to private equity investments, whether it is via an existing financial services player or an investor or equity crowdfunding platform there are two distinct ways of gaining investors. Serendipity. This is the build the offering and they will come approach. You prepare your pitch decks and Information Memorandum or offering document and you send …

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Equity Crowdfunding needs to embrace tomorrow not yesterday to get traction

One of the questions in the Australian Equity Crowdfunding discussion paper (CSEF) got me thinking. Are regulators building this for yesterday or tomorrow? Here was the question: “What are the implications for the corporate law framework of permitting proprietary companies to do so? The question should have been … “How can we change the corporate law framework …

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