Regulations

The UK is updating rules and regulations within the Wholesale Markets Review. This document was created to improve the UK’s regulation in the secondary market to boost the competitiveness of the UK financial sector while maintaining high regulatory standards. While the document contains a lot of suggestions on the changes in the existing regulation, some advancements have been already made.

As the world of crypto and asset tokenization grows, countries are trying to regulate crypto assets to prevent fraud and provide a clear operational environment for online businesses. In the UK, the HM Treasury has been working on a regulatory framework for crypto assets and has recently published the Future Financial Services Regulatory Regime for Crypto Assets document.

If you’re starting an online crowdfunding platform in one of the European member states, here are 5 things to know about the European crowdfunding regulations and market in general.

Crowdfunding is growing fast, but building your own platform comes with serious challenges. This overview covers regulatory requirements, payment processing, identity verification, technology, marketing hurdles, and how solutions like LenderKit help simplify the process.

Crowdfunding platforms in the US can either operate as funding portals or broker-dealer platforms. But how does the investment platform or crowdfunding software look behind the scenes? And what are the US crowdfunding regulations compliance requirements for platforms?

Harmonised crowdfunding regulations in the European Union have been adopted on November 10th, 2021. They will allow crowdfunding platforms to operate cross-border and offer investment and fundraising opportunities to more people.

Regulatory authorities require private equity and online investing platforms to perform specific testing of investors to make sure they understand the risks. While in some countries investors can proceed with investing activities even if they fail the test, stricter jurisdictions like the UK deny such investors the ability to engage in high-risk investing activities.

ECSP regulations are adopted now. What will they change and when? It looks like there is very little the platforms can do right away since the technical standards are not approved by the European Commission, and it will take some time.