Más New study from P. Boyallian (Lancaster) & P. Ruiz-Verdú (UC3M) reveals the role of leverage for the impact of CEO risk-taking incentives on the chances of bank failure during the 2007-10 crisis. https://academic.oup.com/rof/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rof/rfx051/4600197 … @UC3M_Business for new knowledge with impact and relevance! Traducir del inglés

This seminar by David F. Hendry (University of Oxford) is the next instance of the “New Solutions with Big Data” Seminar Series, sponsored by the UC3M-Banco Santander Big Data in Finance Institute. It will be held on Friday, June 16th at 9:30 am in room 18.1.A12 of building number 18 (Carmen Martin Gaite) of the Getafe Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Attendance is free. Please RSVP to nagutier@pa.uc3m.es. Abstract: `Big Data’ provide both opportunities and hazards. The former arise from the vast amounts of potential information; the latter from the substantial chance of finding spurious connections. An approach [&hellip

The Second Issue of the 42nd Volume of the Journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice published March 2017 is dedicated entirely to crowdfunding research. A link to the papers can be found here

Facebook announced it’s expanding its set of online fundraising tools to include its own GoFundMe competitor, starting first in the U.S. The new tool will allow users to raise money for personal campaigns. In addition, the company is adding the ability for Facebook Pages to add a “donate” button to their live broadcasts on the network. This is not the first time Facebook has stepped into the fundraising space. In 2015, it debuted a Kickstarter-like feature aimed at nonprofits that allowed them to set up a campaign page, explain their goals and collect cash. Last year, the company expanded its [&hellip

Venture Capital has published a special issue (Volume 19, 2017 Issues 1 and 2) with the objetive of exploring the new and traditional sources of finance and suggest how these phenomena can extend entrepreneurial finance literature and guide new theory building. According to the issue introductory paper: “The proliferation of new sources of entrepreneurial finance potentially makes it easier for ventures to raise capital and grow. To date, entrepreneurial finance literature has developed a rich tradition of research on venture capital and angel finance. However, the emergence of “new” sources of finance, such as crowdfunding and the limited attention paid [&hellip

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

The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) announces the creation of a novel two-stage editorial process designed to encourage researchers to engage in innovative research on the emerging topic of FinTech. The process is closely related to a “registered reports” format with a first-stage workshop to review accepted proposals and a second-stage conference to evaluation final papers. The RFS sponsoring editors are Itay Goldstein, Wei Jiang, and Andrew Karolyi. The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2017 and the workshop to review paper proposals is scheduled for May 25, 2017 at Columbia University in New York. The Call for Proposals may [&hellip