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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) undertook a consultation on tighter regulation of crowdfunding last December. It was clear that technologic innovation to support both debt and equity capital…
Read moreThe Blinkx share price reached a peak of 218p on the 6th January, but yesterday (30/1/2014), it closed down 33%. At one point it was as low as…
Read moreEurofinuse, a representative body for European shareholder organisations of which ShareSoc is a Member, has adopted a “Better Finance Manifesto”. They are launching this before the European Parliament…
Read moreThere was a meeting attended by about 20 Silverdell shareholders in Beckenham on the 20th January. A report of the meeting is present here: www.sharesoc.org/Silverdell_Shareholder_Meeting_Report.pdf It covered what was…
Read moreShareSoc is working on a campaign regarding shareholder rights for private shareholders and it is important for us to obtain the evidence on whether you vote the shares…
Read moreThe Government has announced that it will allow Child Trust Funds to be transferred to Junior ISAs. The investment returns and charges on Child Trust Funds compare poorly…
Read moreThe Law Commission is running a public consultation on the “Fiduciary Duties of Investment Intermediaries”. This was prompted by a recommendation in the Kay Review that examined the…
Read moreThe Government has published its response to the public consultation on share buy-backs in Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs). In particular the proposals put forward were aimed at stopping…
Read moreChristopher Willford, the Finance Director of Bradford & Bingley in 2008, has been fined £30,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for “failing to provide the board with…
Read moreYou may well be worse off if you are dead. The Government is to clamp down on the payment of state pensions to people who are dead, which…
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on a new regulatory approach to cover “crowdfunding”. Crowdfunding is in essence a direct approach to investors for either equity investments…
Read moreThere have been extensive media comments lately on the activities of the Royal Bank of Scotland in lending to smaller businesses, and what they did when those businesses…
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