A Comparitive Overview of Crowdfunding Regulations in Australia, the UK, the European Union, and the USA.

Abstract

Crowd funding has become a major means of financing of small-scale entrepreneurial ventures and star-ups. The world now more than ever needs to fund projects which are environment friendly and innovative. Mostly, startups face the challenge of scalability and hence are not able to attract investments from big financial institutions and venture capitalists. Crowdfunding can become a major tool for financing such innovative startups and give them the flexibility of growing at their own pace without the pressure of achieving quick profitability. This paper tries to compare the crowdfunding regulations of the some of the developed countries like the USA, Australia, the EU, and the UK which have the highest concentration of crowdfunding projects and platforms in the world. There is much to learn from the regulations in these countries that how the financial power of the masses can be used to boost the economic well-being of a country by boosting entrepreneurship at a small level.