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Crowd-sourced funding: Australia needs to learn from Italy's mistakes

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imageThe proposed changes to the Corporations Act might protect investors in crowd funding but it limits the types of businesses that can use these platforms.From www.shutterstock.com

Australia can learn from Italy’s mistake in limiting companies that can access crowd-sourced funding, as the government examines changes to the Corporations Act.

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