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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254890203321

Titolo

Crowdfunding for SMEs : A European Perspective / / edited by Roberto Bottiglia, Flavio Pichler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-56021-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 236 p. 36 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, , 2523-336X

Disciplina

658.154

Soggetti

Capital investments

Capital market

Business enterprises—Finance

Financial engineering

Finance, Public

European Union

Investment Appraisal

Capital Markets

Business Finance

Financial Engineering

Public Finance

European Union Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Crowdfunding for SMEs: A European Perspective provides a valuable insight into this new source of capital. In particular, the authors focus on financial return crowdfunding, which repays the crowd either through debt or equity. This source of capital might play a significant role in the future becoming an alternative or a complement to traditional funding sources. It is therefore of the uttermost importance to understand what has boosted its exponential growth in recent years, as well as the key drivers of success of P2P lending and equity



crowdfunding campaigns on both the funders and the fundraisers side. Due to the financial nature of the return provided to the crowd, financial return crowdfunding has been the object of recent waves of regulation, although the European Union still lacks a set of common rules. The aim of regulation should be twofold, to protect investors and, at the same time, to favor the financing for SMEs. In this book, the authors explore such issues and the regulatory policies, while looking to the future of financial return crowdfunding as an evolving source of capital. .