It’s not often that the House of Representatives votes nearly unanimously on anything noteworthy these days, but that’s exactly what the House did on July 17 in voting 406-4 for the “JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018”, also known on the street as “JOBS Act 3.0”, which is the latest iteration of the effort
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Weak First Quarter for U.S. Venture-Backed IPOs
By Alon Y. Kapen on
Posted in Capital Markets Reform, Capital Raising, decimalization, equity, Federal, JOBS Act, technology, tick-size, VC, venture capital
The market for venture backed IPOs in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2015 was the weakest in two years, both in terms of number of deals and aggregate proceeds, according to pre-IPO institutional research firm Renaissance Capital, as well as a separate exit poll report by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture…
To Improve Small Company Liquidity, SEC Chairman Announces Tick-Size Pilot
By Alon Y. Kapen on
Posted in Capital Markets Reform, Capital Raising, decimalization, equity, Federal, JOBS Act, tick-size
SEC Chairman Mary Jo White gave her state of the Commission speech on Friday at the “SEC Speaks 2014” conference in Washington, D.C. But if you were distracted for a moment by the sight of hoodie-clad Mark Cuban live-tweeting at the conference, you may have missed this one paragraph in the speech:
“In 2014…