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🔗 After 20 years of crowdfunding, the question is simple: Are we transforming finance, or just digitizing it? ICAFR Málaga made one thing clear: the next phase depends on trust, coordination, and real infrastructure. gecaorg.medium.com/icafr-m%C…

How did UK crowdfunding begin? 🇬🇧 2005: Zopa, lending first 2011: Crowdcube opens equity to the public 2014: FCA rules updated 2026: £5m+ public offers Film 2 of The Crowdfunding Chronicles: Origins. Next: Germany 🇩🇪 Join GECA 👉 thegeca.org/join #Crowdfunding

Remittances cross borders in minutes. Investment hits a wall 🌍 Meseret Warner’s one reform: let retail investors invest anywhere – keep the caps, but let them choose where. 🎥 Full round table: youtu.be/ySZQSqNl8Ww

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania treat crowdfunding as national fintech strategy – regulators and platforms on the same mission 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Karsten Wenzlaff on what proactive regulation looks like. 🎥 Full round table: youtu.be/ySZQSqNl8Ww

How did US investment crowdfunding begin? 🇺🇸 1933: securities laws 2012: the JOBS Act 2016: Reg CF opens to everyday investors Film 1 of The Crowdfunding Chronicles: Origins. Next: the UK 🇬🇧 Join GECA 👉 thegeca.org/join #Crowdfunding #RegCF

The London Stock Exchange began as a coffee house. The Bank of England was founded with a peer-to-peer loan ☕ Crowdfunding isn’t new. It’s a return. 🎥 Full round table: youtu.be/ySZQSqNl8Ww

Should the US borrow the UK’s community shares model? 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Andy Field, GECA: worth a look, but don’t transplant the rules. Lighter regulation shouldn’t become a loophole for commercial issuers. Join GECA 👉 thegeca.org/join?utm_source=… #Crowdfunding #CommunityShares

Equity, debt or revenue share? “It’s about matching the funding to the business rather than forcing every business into the same model.” Andy Field, GECA, at the #CfPA Summit 💡 Join GECA 👉 thegeca.org/join?utm_source=… #Crowdfunding #StartupFunding

Secondary markets are one of the key problems crowdfunding still has to solve. “We can’t manufacture liquidity.” Andy Field, GECA, on exits, ECSPR’s bulletin boards and the UK’s PISCES sandbox 🔄 Join GECA 👉 thegeca.org/join?utm_source=… #Crowdfunding #PrivateMarkets

We have the technology to connect investors across borders. The harder part is making regulation and operations work across them. Andy Field, GECA, on what it would take for crowdfunding to be one market, not 50 🌍 Join GECA 👉 thegeca.org/join?utm_source=… #Crowdfunding #ECSPR

Every crowdfunding platform will use AI. The real test is whether it can prove AI makes the process better: evidence, safeguards and a human who stays accountable. Andy Field on why GECA launched its AI task force 🎙️ Join us 👉 thegeca.org/join?utm_source=… #Crowdfunding #AI

AI will help crowdfunding make better decisions at scale. But the more consequential the decision, the clearer the human accountability needs to be. Andy Field, GECA, at the #CfPA Summit in DC 🇺🇸 Join GECA 👉 thegeca.org/join?utm_source=… #Crowdfunding #AIGovernance

🌍 "It's like GoFundMe – but for investment." Meseret Warner on equity crowdfunding's most basic problem: most of the world has never heard of it. Raising awareness is on GECA's agenda for the next 12 months. ▶️ Full episode: youtu.be/ySZQSqNl8Ww

💸 50 states, 50 different rules on selling shares between citizens. Woodie Neiss on why US crowdfunding liquidity breaks at the state line – and the federal fix that would unlock it. ▶️ Full episode: youtu.be/ySZQSqNl8Ww 🤝 Join: thegeca.org/join

💶 "The 500K today is your 1 million and your 5 million." Kieron O'Brien, Republic Europe, on why they're growing deal volume 22% while the market consolidates: treat the small raise as the start of a relationship. ▶️ Ep 1: youtu.be/ZEjV0hoBObQ

🇵🇹 Welcome Goparity to GECA! The Lisbon-based impact platform runs crowdlending under Portugal’s CMVM and crowdequity under Spain’s CNMV, both within ECSPR. €63m+ financed since 2017. 🌍 Led by co-founder Nuno Brito Jorge. goparity.com/ #GECA #ImpactInvesting #ECSPR

🇬🇭 Welcome AgriPath to GECA! The Accra-based agribusiness connects demand, production, capital and offtake into structured farm projects — starting with the buyer and working backwards. 🌾 Founded by Michael Farid Conway. agripath.co/ #GECA #Agribusiness #Ghana

📍 DC. Four GECA Steering Committee members, many continents between them, zero video call links. Meseret Warner, Andy Field, Bruce Virga and Jason Fishman, finally in one room at the CfPA Summit. 🤝 Join GECA: thegeca.org/join

🌍 "We have the technology to connect investors across borders. The bigger challenge is making the regulatory and operational experience work across those borders." Andy Field at the CfPA Summit, Washington DC. 🤝 Join GECA: thegeca.org/join

Today in Washington DC: Andy Field, GECA’s Executive Steering Committee Lead, joins Wefunder and GigaStar on “The Next Wave of Crowdfunding Innovation” at the CfPA summit. 🇺🇸 📍 National Union Building, 11:05am ET #Crowdfunding #RegCF

📊 October in regulated crowdfunding: who gets to invest. 🇺🇸 Five routes to accredited status 🇮🇳 Accreditation widened 🇫🇷 ECSPR inspection findings thegeca.org/blogs/global-cro…