On 8 July 2020, the Council published the last version of the European crowdfunding regulation (‘CFR'), as well as a related directive to amend MiFID II. Although both the regulation and related directive now need to be adopted by the European parliament before it can be published in the...

On 8 March 2018, the European Commission published a proposal for a crowdfunding regulation (hereafter: ‘CFR') as well as a proposal to amend MiFID II . The CFR proposal seeks to facilitate the scaling up of crowdfunding services across the internal market to increase access to finance for...

European banking law restrictions have so far prevented “alternative lending solutions”, such as debt funds and crowdlending platforms, to operate on a Pan-European scale. Consequently, crowdlending platforms currently do not benefit from a European passport and are restricted in attracting...

On the 10th of November 2021, the European crowdfunding regulation (“ESCPR”), as well as a related directive to amend Directive 2014/65/EU (“MiFID II”), entered into force. The ESCPR facilitates the scaling up of crowdfunding services across the internal market to increase access to...