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16 Apr 2020
4 min to read

The Relevance of Investor Rights in Equity Crowdfunding

Lars Hornuf | Tobias Schilling | Armin Schwienbacher

An often-advocated, important benefit of equity crowdfunding (ECF) is that entrepreneurs do not need to give up as much control as professional investors such as business angels (BAs) and venture...

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04 Feb 2020
3 min to read

FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany

Lars Hornuf | Gregor Dorfleitner

Since 25 May, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been directly applicable in all EU member states. Our recently published book, FinTech and Data Privacy in Germany deals with the...

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10 Jan 2020
4 min to read

Initial Coin Offerings, Information Disclosure, and Fraud

Lars Hornuf | Theresa Kück | Armin Schwienbacher

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, which until today remains the most widely used digital currency worldwide, digital currencies have gained in popularity. More recently, tokens based on different...
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11 Oct 2017

Equity Crowdfunding in Germany and the UK: Follow-up Funding and Firm Survival

Lars Hornuf | Matthias Schmitt

Today, start-ups often obtain financing via the Internet. Under the equity crowdfunding (‘ECF’) model, non-sophisticated investors make many small contributions to a company and ultimately expect...

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18 Jan 2017

The Emergence of the Global Fintech Market: Economic and Technological Determinants

Lars Hornuf | Christian Haddad

In recent years, digitization and the Internet have turned traditional segments of the financial sector upside down. When it comes to financing a business project or a fancy wedding, fintech...

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31 Oct 2016

Financial Contracting in Crowdinvesting: Lessons from the German Market

Lars Klöhn | Lars Hornuf | Tobias Schilling

Much has been written about the regulation of crowdinvesting, and what determines funding success. However, relatively little is known about the contracts that form the basis of crowdinvesting. This...

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03 Oct 2016

The Economic Impact of Forming a European Company

Lars Hornuf | Abdul Mohamed | Armin Schwienbacher

Unlike in the United States, European firms were for a long time restricted to the company law of their home jurisdiction. With a number of decisions around the turn of the millennium, the European...

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