In October of 2016, the SEC approved FINRA rules allowing for the registration of limited purpose broker-dealers, called capital acquisition brokers or CABs (see my blog post on November 1, 2016). This set of rules came about from a No-Action letter issued the year before that granted a no-action position for a very limited exemption […]
So are we to understand that regulation is a good thing and necessary to protect investors in the crowd? Well it appears so. On March 23, 2012, at 2:29 p.m. EDT Marketwire issued a press release announcing the creation of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Association (CFIRA). Its mission is to provide investors “protection and market […]
If you had asked me a year ago if crowd investing would ever become law I would have told you absolutely not. There was no way Congress, which had been so hard on the regulators for allowing the Madoff disaster, would open the floodgate for all sorts of fraudulent activity. Never would Congress fall for […]
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