The Financial Times reports a signficant increase in institutional investors’ presence in crowdfunding deals, With deals involving institutional investors having quadrupled in the last two years, according to Crowdcube (a Crowdfunding platform). This growing interest follows the trend seen in the peer-to-peer lending space

The SEC released a white paper entitled “U.S. securities-based crowdfunding under Title III of the JOBS Act”, which analyzes crowdfunded offerings during the first six months following May 16, 2016 when Title III, Regulation Crowdfunding become official. The SEC’s white paper noted that the majority equity crowdfunding offerings to date have not utilized Regulation D as much as predicted. The full text of the report can be found here

The Crowdfunding Professionals Association will hold its 2017 Annual Crowdfinance Summit on April 20th in Washington DC. In attendance will be some of the most prominent figures in finance, FinTech, and securities governance, focused on the outlook and opportunities for Crowdfinance this year and beyond. Details on the meeting can be found here