Peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding have grown rapidly since the crisis and have attracted the attention of governments who wish to facilitate alternative forms of capital allocation. This report investigates the nature of Financial Return crowdfunding, including outlining the main benefits and risks of the industry and the global regulatory environment the industry currently operates in.
" Faire de la France le pays pionnier du financement participatif ».
Cet événement se déroulera le vendredi 14 février 2014 à partir de 14h
au Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances
Centre de conférences Pierre Mendès France – 139, rue de Bercy-Paris 12°
Peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding have grown rapidly since the crisis and have attracted the attention of governments who wish to facilitate alternative forms of capital allocation. This report investigates the nature of Financial Return crowdfunding, including outlining the main benefits and risks of the industry and the global regulatory environment the industry currently operates in.
" Faire de la France le pays pionnier du financement participatif ».
Cet événement se déroulera le vendredi 14 février 2014 à partir de 14h
au Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances
Centre de conférences Pierre Mendès France – 139, rue de Bercy-Paris 12°
Crowdfunding : Création de l’AFIP, Association Française de l’Investissement...Bruno Schneider - Le Saout
Dans le contexte de la consultation ouverte par le gouvernement sur la réforme de la réglementation
financière applicable au financement participatif, Finance Utile, Happy Capital, SmartAngels et Wiseed,
quatre acteurs majeurs du financement participatif, annoncent la création de l’AFIP – Association
Française de l’Investissement Participatif.
Accelerators, incubators and so-called
“company builders” are innovative
investment vehicles and business
service providers that have made
a novel contribution to advancing
entrepreneurship around the globe,
helping an entire generation of young
companies, and particularly high-tech
startups, to grow, prosper and thrive.
These startup programmes have become
many young companies’ principal source
of knowledge and support; they are in a
position not just to help the needy, but to
encourage the worthy.
The "Association Francaise des Investisseurs en Capital" (French Private Equity Investors Association; hereafter "AFIC") notes that the private equity business involves specialized teams analyzing and then making medium- or long-term equity investments in companies that are generally unlisted, and monitoring these investments until an exit is achieved. AFIC also notes that under the association's by-laws (status), members should offer both their partners and their clients transparency, equal treatment and optimum disclosure, thus guaranteeing the quality of the services that they offer.
Through the fair and honest practices of its members in their transactions, AFIC seeks to enhance the standing of the private equity business and thereby make a positive contribution to the French corporate world.
Although its members do not all have the same legal status and are not all subject to the same regulations, AFIC seeks to harmonize the business practices of its members in order to achieve an image of quality that is both uniform and consistent with its objectives.
AFIC decided to draw up this Code of Ethics, which will apply to all AFIC members according to the terms of article 6 of its by-laws, and which replaces the previous version of that article.
In order to facilitate the proper application of the provisions in this code by its members, AFIC has produced and will continue to produce guides and recommendations on the implementation of the code’s principles. AFIC makes its list of guides and recommendations available to the public using all available means.
The Community First action plan for innovation foresees, among its priority actions, a thorough exchange with the Member States and leading players in the field on the issues of start-up and growth of technology based enterprises and companies with a strong component of radical innovation.
This exchange was launched with a round table chaired by Edith Cresson on 9 December 1997 in Paris, and which gathered government officials, entrepreneurs, investors, academics and researchers, etc.
The round table helped to identify relevant themes and factors conditioning the success of technology-based and other innovative firms.
Further to the round table, three working groups have been set up to examine each stage in the development of the firm (gestation and birth; start-up and consolidation; growth). The list of participants is included in annex.
The objectives of the working groups were:
• to identify what constitutes good practice,
• to point out weaknesses and insufficiencies which may exist in the European Union (or in certain of its regions) relative to competing areas elsewhere in the world (especially the United States)
• to make proposals for possible action, in particular at European level.
These proposals for action concern private actors in a first instance. However public actors have an important role to play in fostering a favourable environment or in stimulating interaction between the different actors (in particular though public/private partnerships), without necessarily adding to public expenditure.
The work was carried out in three stages. Written contributions were called for by 20 March. A core group drawn from each working group met on 26 or 27 March 1998 in Luxembourg with the objective to analyse and further elaborate on the submitted contributions. A first discussion paper was then issued and circulated to each group. The current set of documents attempts to synthesises the contributions and comments to date.
The three discussion papers were reviewed in detail at the Luxembourg conference on 18 and 19 of May.
A careful reader will notice some overlap between the analysis and recommendations by each group. This shows that the process from the initiation of the idea to the growth of the company is a continuum and cannot easily be split in discrete phases. At this discussion stage, no systematic attempt has been made to suppress this overlap. It is a task to be carried out further to the conference. Only the more striking misallocation of suggestions or examples have been tackled.
To facilitate the synthesis a similar structure has been adopted for each group, reflecting the main issues at stake. Besides the description of the relevant boundary conditions, each group has therefore focused on four main influential factors:
• a conducive environment,
• access to skills and competencies,
• access to financing,
• access to markets,
La mise en réseau au moyen d'une plate forme sécurisée d'échange et de communication des compétences,
moyens et technologies d'établissements de recherche, d'enseignement supérieur, d'industrie, de finance et
de conseil, permet une fertilisation croisée et un maillage des ressources disponibles (cf. Acces to Capital Electronic Network, Ace Net de la Small Business Administration, Smart Valley de la Silicon Valley, Smart Alley de New York, Japanese TechnoMart Foundation) susceptibles de :
- drainer les soutiens, compétences, moyens et financements (love-money, business angels, parrainage d’affaires, etc. ...), en direction des projets de création,
- constituer à moindre frais des équipes de création composées de profils complémentaires (ingénieurs, scientifiques, gestionnaires, commerciaux, etc. ...), et ainsi consolider des projets préexistants par le développement des échanges et des communications entre les créateurs, apporteurs de compétences et investisseurs,
- multiplier les opportunités de création, des projets peuvent éclore à l'occasion des rencontres et des échanges entre les invités, les projets les plus fertiles naissent très souvent de rencontres inattendues et imprévues.
Crowdfunding : Création de l’AFIP, Association Française de l’Investissement...Bruno Schneider - Le Saout
Dans le contexte de la consultation ouverte par le gouvernement sur la réforme de la réglementation
financière applicable au financement participatif, Finance Utile, Happy Capital, SmartAngels et Wiseed,
quatre acteurs majeurs du financement participatif, annoncent la création de l’AFIP – Association
Française de l’Investissement Participatif.
Accelerators, incubators and so-called
“company builders” are innovative
investment vehicles and business
service providers that have made
a novel contribution to advancing
entrepreneurship around the globe,
helping an entire generation of young
companies, and particularly high-tech
startups, to grow, prosper and thrive.
These startup programmes have become
many young companies’ principal source
of knowledge and support; they are in a
position not just to help the needy, but to
encourage the worthy.
The "Association Francaise des Investisseurs en Capital" (French Private Equity Investors Association; hereafter "AFIC") notes that the private equity business involves specialized teams analyzing and then making medium- or long-term equity investments in companies that are generally unlisted, and monitoring these investments until an exit is achieved. AFIC also notes that under the association's by-laws (status), members should offer both their partners and their clients transparency, equal treatment and optimum disclosure, thus guaranteeing the quality of the services that they offer.
Through the fair and honest practices of its members in their transactions, AFIC seeks to enhance the standing of the private equity business and thereby make a positive contribution to the French corporate world.
Although its members do not all have the same legal status and are not all subject to the same regulations, AFIC seeks to harmonize the business practices of its members in order to achieve an image of quality that is both uniform and consistent with its objectives.
AFIC decided to draw up this Code of Ethics, which will apply to all AFIC members according to the terms of article 6 of its by-laws, and which replaces the previous version of that article.
In order to facilitate the proper application of the provisions in this code by its members, AFIC has produced and will continue to produce guides and recommendations on the implementation of the code’s principles. AFIC makes its list of guides and recommendations available to the public using all available means.
The Community First action plan for innovation foresees, among its priority actions, a thorough exchange with the Member States and leading players in the field on the issues of start-up and growth of technology based enterprises and companies with a strong component of radical innovation.
This exchange was launched with a round table chaired by Edith Cresson on 9 December 1997 in Paris, and which gathered government officials, entrepreneurs, investors, academics and researchers, etc.
The round table helped to identify relevant themes and factors conditioning the success of technology-based and other innovative firms.
Further to the round table, three working groups have been set up to examine each stage in the development of the firm (gestation and birth; start-up and consolidation; growth). The list of participants is included in annex.
The objectives of the working groups were:
• to identify what constitutes good practice,
• to point out weaknesses and insufficiencies which may exist in the European Union (or in certain of its regions) relative to competing areas elsewhere in the world (especially the United States)
• to make proposals for possible action, in particular at European level.
These proposals for action concern private actors in a first instance. However public actors have an important role to play in fostering a favourable environment or in stimulating interaction between the different actors (in particular though public/private partnerships), without necessarily adding to public expenditure.
The work was carried out in three stages. Written contributions were called for by 20 March. A core group drawn from each working group met on 26 or 27 March 1998 in Luxembourg with the objective to analyse and further elaborate on the submitted contributions. A first discussion paper was then issued and circulated to each group. The current set of documents attempts to synthesises the contributions and comments to date.
The three discussion papers were reviewed in detail at the Luxembourg conference on 18 and 19 of May.
A careful reader will notice some overlap between the analysis and recommendations by each group. This shows that the process from the initiation of the idea to the growth of the company is a continuum and cannot easily be split in discrete phases. At this discussion stage, no systematic attempt has been made to suppress this overlap. It is a task to be carried out further to the conference. Only the more striking misallocation of suggestions or examples have been tackled.
To facilitate the synthesis a similar structure has been adopted for each group, reflecting the main issues at stake. Besides the description of the relevant boundary conditions, each group has therefore focused on four main influential factors:
• a conducive environment,
• access to skills and competencies,
• access to financing,
• access to markets,
La mise en réseau au moyen d'une plate forme sécurisée d'échange et de communication des compétences,
moyens et technologies d'établissements de recherche, d'enseignement supérieur, d'industrie, de finance et
de conseil, permet une fertilisation croisée et un maillage des ressources disponibles (cf. Acces to Capital Electronic Network, Ace Net de la Small Business Administration, Smart Valley de la Silicon Valley, Smart Alley de New York, Japanese TechnoMart Foundation) susceptibles de :
- drainer les soutiens, compétences, moyens et financements (love-money, business angels, parrainage d’affaires, etc. ...), en direction des projets de création,
- constituer à moindre frais des équipes de création composées de profils complémentaires (ingénieurs, scientifiques, gestionnaires, commerciaux, etc. ...), et ainsi consolider des projets préexistants par le développement des échanges et des communications entre les créateurs, apporteurs de compétences et investisseurs,
- multiplier les opportunités de création, des projets peuvent éclore à l'occasion des rencontres et des échanges entre les invités, les projets les plus fertiles naissent très souvent de rencontres inattendues et imprévues.