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New York Times (September 26)

2011/ 09/ 27 by jd in Global News

A proposal to modify securities listing regulations appears to have gained bipartisan support in the U.S. The proposal would allow small investors to support companies through “crowdfunding, a financing model that relies on collecting small sums of money from many people over the Internet.” Since the 1930s companies have either had to limit fund-raising to wealthy investors or follow the intricate registration process which typically proved “too costly given the small sums being sought.”

A proposal to modify securities listing regulations appears to have gained bipartisan support in the U.S. The proposal would allow small investors to support companies through “crowdfunding, a financing model that relies on collecting small sums of money from many people over the Internet.” Since the 1930s companies have either had to limit fund-raising to wealthy investors or follow the intricate registration process which typically proved “too costly given the small sums being sought.”

 

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