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House Bill Would Increase Cap on Equity Crowdfunding

By Gregory Roberts, Bloomberg News

March 24, 2016 — New online crowdfunding Web portals won’t go live until mid-May, but a key House Republican is already renewing efforts to ease existing restrictions on how much money companies can raise via the innovative technique.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) introduced legislation (H.R. 4855) that would lift to $5 million the amount that an individual venture can raise under the crowdfunding exemption from securities law in the 2012 JOBS Act. That represents a fivefold increase on the $1 million cap now in the law.

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The University of Cambridge and University of Chicago 2015 Americas Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey

The study is supported by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), KPMG and a number of leading industry research partners

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Chicago Booth School of Business are jointly launching the 2015 Americas Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey. This survey will be a comprehensive and empirical assessment of crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending (marketplace lending) and other forms of alternative finance across North, Central and South America and scheduled to be available in April 2016.

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