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Australia finally has crowd-sourced equity funding, but there's more to do

  • Written by Marina Nehme, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW
imageWill equity crowdfunding work in Australia?

The Senate has passed a bill to allow companies to access crowd-sourced equity (CSF). But its conditions make 99.7% of Australian companies ineligible and the lowered governance requirements that some companies may qualify for may not outweigh the costs of accessing CSF.

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