151 European Crowdfunding Platforms Authorized According to the New Regulation
There are 151 European crowdfunding platforms authorized and published in the ESMA register as of 29 January 2024, distributed across 19 European countries.
According to the analysis of data from the official ESMA register, it emerges that, since our last survey, at the beginning of last November, 39 new portals have been authorized.
The greatest increase occurred in France and Spain, with 10 new platforms authorized, followed by Lithuania with 6 and Italy with 5.
In reality, we know that, in the meantime, 3 other portals have been authorized in Italy which, however, have not yet been registered in the official ESMA register.
France is the country that has authorized the most portals (45), followed by Spain with 20 and the Netherlands with 17. Italy has 16 authorized portals (actually 19 as underlined above), followed by Lithuania which with the 6 authorized in the last 2 months, it reaches a total of 13 portals. Germany always stands out negatively, with only 3 authorized portals.
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The types of Crowdfunding operated by authorized portals
The most requested type of authorization by the European crowdfunding platforms is undoubtedly equity crowdfunding, or rather, the possibility of placing “securities,” therefore both shares/units of companies, including SPVs for real estate operations, and bonds such as minibonds or similar.
In fact, 66 platforms have applied exclusively for this type of crowdfunding, of which more than half, 35, are French. Italy, which is second in this ranking, has 7.
There are 45 European crowdfunding platforms that have declared that they operate only in lending crowdfunding, among which the 11 that are based in Lithuania stand out, followed by the 7 in the Netherlands and the 6 in Italy.
Finally, as many as 40 portals have asked to be able to operate with both types of crowdfunding , both equity and lending, with Spain leading the way this time with 11 portals. In Italy, however, there are 4 platforms that operate or will operate with equity and lending: Walliance, Opstart, Ener2crowd and Yeldo Crowd.
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