The Soho Loft Capital Creation Event

Viva Italia, Crowdfunding Leader Of The Pack
Published May 23, 2013
By David Drake Crowdfunding has been changing the financial landscape of Italy since late March. That’s when the Italian Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB), the equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US, ...
read more
One State Is Leading In Investment Crowdfunding: Guess Which One
Published May 22, 2013
By David Drake Add North Carolina to the growing list of states working on intrastate investment crowdfunding legislation, especially as the equity crowdfunding proposal of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act (JOBS Act) won’t be brought up by th ...
read more
Top 15 European “Peer-to-Peer” Lending Services
Published May 22, 2013
By David Drake Crowdfunders generally fall into different categories like equity, donation, reward and debt. The last one is also known as microfinancing or what is commonly referred to in Europe as “peer-to-peer lending.” Funding is generally in ...
read more
Mary Jo White is New SEC Chair: Any Chance Equity Crowdfunding Will Happen This 2013?
Published April 24, 2013
By David Drake After 3 months since being nominated by President Barack Obama, the U.S. Senate on Monday April 10 approved Mary Jo White as the new chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). How will this affect the final ...
read more
Meet the Top 100 Crowdfunders of All Time @ The Soho Loft Webinar Series
Published March 3, 2013
By David Drake “Through education and sharing of ideas crowdfunding is reshaping capital markets and stimulating economic growth like never before.” – David Drake, Founder and Chairman of LDJ Capital and The Soho Loft PRLog (Press Release) ...
read more
Soho Grow Inc: The Soho Loft and Grow VC Group Media Company for Crowdfunding and P2P Investing
Published February 28, 2013
Press release – February 26, 2013 – New York, London, Hong Kong The Soho Loft Capital Creation Events (TSL), a New York based crowdfunding media group, and The Grow VC Group, a globally operating peer-to-peer investing services group, have agre ...
read more
11th EBAN Winter University in Istanbul, Turkey
Published February 19, 2013
A trip up Turkey goes beyond drinking the sundowner rasi on a rooftop by a river framed by gardens of palms and pines and rustic ruins. Turkey, which used to be a rendezvous for spies and movie stars, is now the fountainhead of angel investments. Sup ...
read more

Crowdfunding for equity solutions Part 5: Dealing with “held-of-record” issues

Published May 19, 2013 at 11:47 pm

By David Drake David Drake of LDJ Capital continues today with his fifth article on his series regarding crowdfunding for equity solutions. Crowdfunding is exempt from ‘held of record‘ calculation in regards to registration requirements under 12g of SEC 1934 Act. But among the issues that could effectively kill the crowd funding provisions in the [...]

Crowdfunding for equity solutions Part 4: Due diligence

Published May 19, 2013 at 11:38 pm

By David Drake David Drake of LDJ Capital continues today with his fourth article of his series regarding crowdfunding for equity solutions. The SoHo Loft Roundtable Intermediaries, as set out in the Act, will be required to obtain background and history checks on officers, directors and certain affiliates of the issuer. Our concern is that [...]