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Comparative analysis of the European Union crowdfunding service providers regulation and regulatory barriers for crowdfunding in the Baltic States

2021

The issue of conflicting national frameworks on crowdfunding and dispersed structures of investors and products has drawn significant attention in the European Union. Some Member States introduced national rules to regulate their crowdfunding platforms, while others left some aspects of the activity unregulated. This variation of national licensing, diverging definitions of business models and application of existing EU legislation are considered to contribute to crowdfunding market fragmentation. Some surveys demonstrate that crowdfunding regulatory heterogeneity in the Member States negatively affects the market. In the paper, this heterogeneity is revised on the example of Latvia, Lithua…