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Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) recently sent a letter to President Obama regarding crowdfunding regulation. The letter discusses a number of issues the senator thinks the SEC should consider when formulating crowdfunding rules. These include funding portal regulation, investor protections, and advertising.
Wednesday, the Senate cloture vote on H.R. 3606, better known as the JOBS Act, passed 76-22--the package will allow companies to offer securities to non-accredited investors via crowdfunding platforms. The JOBS Act passed the House by a 390-23 vote on March 8 and in a rare showing of bipartisan agreement on the economy during an election year. The Obama administration has expressed support for the JOBS Act, which the President intends to sign into law when the legislation reaches his desk.
Immediately after affirming the vote, Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Scott P. Brown, (R-MA) and Jack Reed (D-RI) proposed two additional amendments.
The Senate this afternoon passed H.R. 3606 — colloquially referred to as “the JOBS Act” or “the crowdfunding bill” — on a 73-26 vote. The package, which loosens a number of federal regulations, will allow startups and small businesses to solicit investments via the Internet.
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 Internet has opened the doors for business growth and innovation of all kinds. The CROWDFUND Act will allow that innovation to continue by allowing small investors to pool their resources to...
Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has been one of the key people pushing crowdfunding legislature through Congress. He recently released a video that aired at the Stanford/MIT Venture Lab panel discussion on crowdfunding. In the video, Sen. Brown discusses why he introduced the CROWDFUND Act along with Sen. Jeff Merkley, and why he thinks it is a concept that is more important now than ever.
Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC), the driving force behind the H.R. 2930 crowdfund investing bill currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate, discovered crowdfunding the same way many of America’s college frat houses sate their thirst: through Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Text of the Crowdfund Act (S. 2190), introduced today by U.S. Senators Brown (R–MA), Merkley (D–OR), and Bennet (D–CO).
Maurice Lopes, President and co-founder of EarlyShares.com, the first equity-based crowdfunding platform in the United States that helps to raise capital from investors for a company, stated “We...
Attorney William Carleton provides analysis of the third crowdfunding bill to hit the U.S. Congress in the past few months.
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act of 2011 (CROWD FUND Act), which...
The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bill to legalize crowdfunding — originally introduced by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) — for the second time.
Recap of the July 13th CFIRA event where the nation’s key lawmakers, regulators, crowdfunding enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and investors all came together to discuss the rules that will eventually...
The following recap of last week's forum on the JOBS Act and crowdfunding for equity in the United States comes to us from Dara Albright and NowStreetJournal.com. Albright is one of Crowdsourcing.org's resident experts in the area of crowdfunding.
North American Securities Administrators Association Vice President Heath Abshure, also the Arkansas Securities Department commissioner, said the main issue with crowdfunding as it stands is that...
The sort of deregulation of financial markets enacted through the JOBS Act gave a number of lawmakers pause. Although Sen. Jeff Merkley says he is pleased by the enactment of his crowdfunding...
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