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- Deutsche Bank Subsidiary to Pay $4 Million for Untimely Filing Certain Suspicious Activity Reports December 20, 2024
Category Archives: Capital Raising
SEC Adopts Final Rules Implementing JOBS Act Regulation A+
This morning the Commissioners of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to adopt final rules implementing Title IV of the JOBS Act of 2012, popularly referred to as Regulation A+. Though the SEC has yet to post the … Continue reading
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It’s Official – Regulation A+ Arrives on March 25, 2015!
For those of you who read my article on March 11, entitled: JOBS Act State of the Union: What’s Become of Regulation A+ and Crowdfunding? I provided my prognosis on what to expect as far as the SEC completing final … Continue reading
On the JOBS Act, Market Transparency and the Search for Truth: A Lesson in Financial Market History & Current Events
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” George Santayana, Winston Churchill. Many financial market observers, including myself, have greeted the JOBS … Continue reading
JOBS Act State of the Union: What’s Become of Regulation A+ and Crowdfunding?
To borrow a line from SEC Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher, quoting from the fight song of his alma mater, Georgetown University: Oh How Long It’s Been! As we approach the three year anniversary of the signing into law of the JOBS … Continue reading
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The JOBS Act, Crowdfinance & Building Social Consensus: Are Investors Unnecessarily at Risk?
Is the JOBS Act Title II ecosystem being built around the art of the “con” by some Internet funding platforms and companies raising money on these platforms? The answer seems to be yes, judging by investment advice provided by Morningstar, … Continue reading
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The CNBC Crowdfinance 50 Index: When an Investor “Commitment” is Just a Kiss
In July 2013 the SEC implemented Title II of the JOBS Act of 2012 through Rule 506(c) of Regulation D, which for the first time in over 80 years allowed companies to engage in general solicitation of investors in an … Continue reading
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Investment Crowdfunding in 2015: A Much Needed Thaw in the Regulatory Gridlock*
[Author’s Note: The below article was cited as authority by Jonathan Ortmans, Senior Fellow, in an article appearing on The Kauffmann Foundation Blog on January 5, 2015 http://bit.ly/1zPGC7u] For many focused on opening up new avenues of capital formation for … Continue reading
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A Look at the Year Ahead in Washington DC for JOBS Act 2.0 and SEC Rulemaking: Regulation A+ is Around the Corner
Many of you who have been following the unfolding of the various provisions of the JOBS Act of 2012. And some of you have been asking: Where are those damn Regulation A+ and investment crowdfunding final rules the SEC has … Continue reading
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House Passes SEC Disclosure Modernization and Simplification Act of 2014
In what is likely to be a precursor of what can be expected when the 114th Congress convenes in January 2015, with a Republican-controlled House and Senate, the House on December 3 overwhelmingly approved H.R. 4569, entitled “Disclosure Modernization and … Continue reading
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On the Misplaced Priorities of Dodd-Frank & the SEC: A Call for a “New Deal” in Washington for America’s Small Business
[Note – The picture above is Circa 1932, New York, NY: a Depression Era “Sweat Shop.” Pictured fifth from the right is the author’s Grandfather, Samuel Guzik] It could have been the kickoff of a grand political campaign – a … Continue reading
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