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- MA Senator Scott Brown speaks about investment crowdfunding at Boston's City Hall - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announces he will push investment crowdfunding bills forward - Senate...
The Senate Banking Committee has held two hearings on these proposals and will hold another hearing the week of March 5,Reid said.And Karen Kerrigan, president and chief executive officer of the...
Senate majority leader Harry Reid announced plans on Tuesday to push forward legislation to spur capital formation for small businesses, an issue that has spawned a rare showing of bipartisanship.
The Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act has been folded into the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" or JOBS Act, along with five other bills previously approved by the House Financial Services Committee that seek to open capital markets.
As the groups note in their letter: “On these platforms, investors will dynamically engage with other investors to vet business ideas and fund those businesses that have significant promise....
The president’s tax plan would reward some sectors, such as manufacturers and clean energy companies, which would continue to receive targeted tax breaks. But it would penalize other sectors, such...
Speaker of the House Eric Cantor released his JOBS Act with plans to bring it to the House floor for a vote this week. A package of "small company capital formation" bills, most of which...
This afternoon U.S. Senators Brown (R–MA), Merkley (D–OR), and Bennet (D–CO) introduced the bi-partisan Crowdfund Act (S. 2190), legislation that would lift much of the regulations restricting the crowdfunding of small businesses and entrepreneurs. Start-ups could solicit up to $1 million per year from individual investors, though they would have to use SEC-accredited platforms to do so. Investors with annual incomes less than $100,000 could invest up to $2,000, or 5 percent of their income. Wealthier individuals would have considerably more freedom; they could invest up to 10 percent of their income, with a cap at $100,000.
The political climate is on the crowdfunding supporters’ side. Both the administration and Congress want to be seen doing something to boost the economy in an election year: The bipartisan...
This would mean start-ups can “go public” from the get-go. Fasten your seatbelts. This is Kickstarter on jet fuel. Under the House rules, any start-up can publicly announce that it’s raising...
The U.S. Senate today voted 76-22 to limit debate on the JOBS Act, clearing a procedural hurdle standing in-between the bill and its passage — which, without further delays, may arrive as soon as tonight.
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