I’d like to thank all of the leading and emerging online lending platforms, the industry’s investors as well as its infrastructure and service providers who traveled from all four corners of the globe to attend LendIt 2014. Working with the LendIt team to provide the industry with its annual forum has been one of the […]
The Great Wall Street Slumber Party
Thursday, January 3, 2013 Dear Readers, Thanks to all of you entrepreneurs, visionaries, financiers, bankers, legislators, tax, legal and regulatory experts who came together this past year to institute colossal Wall Street reform. When historians look back on the 2012, it will be recognized as the year that not only laid the foundation for the […]
Recap of CFIRA’s Historic “Development of Crowdfunding Regulations Symposium”
On Friday July 13, 2012, CFIRA, the leading regulatory advocacy group for the crowdfunding industry, hosted its first public forum wherein the nation’s key lawmakers, regulators, crowdfunding enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and investors all came together to discuss the rules that will eventually govern Crowdfund investing under the JOBS Act. Exemplifying the same collaborative principles that define the […]
How Facebook’s IPO Exemplifies the Injustice in the Financial Markets
I am dismayed by the number of pundits, legislators and organizations, claiming to be “small investor advocates”, who misrepresent the JOBS Act as another piece of legislation favoring the Wall Street establishment. The truth is the JOBS Act invites competition from both smaller financial service firms and investors which will in turn de-monopolize our capital […]