29 November 2021
FCA Crackdown on Fundraising Exemptions
In its Perimeter Report for 2020/21 the FCA has raised concerns that unauthorised persons are increasingly using, or purporting to use, exemptions from the Financial Promotions Order (FPO) to sell high risk investments and potential scams to ordinary consumers without their rules applying.
19 November 2021
The new cookie conundrum
Potential reforms to UK data privacy laws will change the way that cookies work on websites - businesses need to prepare now.
8 November 2021
AQSE To Change SPAC Rules
AQSE is consulting the market about some changes to its rules relating to SPAC admissions.
Currently SPACs are eligible for admission to the Access segment of the AQSE growth market, as long as they have a minimum capitalisation of £700,000 and a free float of 10%. AQSE is concerned that this can result in a disorderly market and excessive volatility because a lack of liquidity arising from low market capitalisation and limited shareholder numbers.
3 November 2021
Lifecycle of a tech startup series: Seed raise
Having decided in episode 4 of our lifecycle of a tech startup series on targeting angel investors to raise £500,000 investment in the business, the founders of KNow Wear Limited researched various angel investor networks which aimed to connect start-ups like yours with angel investors. You applied to pitch at a couple of events and were invited by one network to interview with them in person. The network was very impressed with the business and invited you to pitch at their next event.
21 October 2021
BEIS White Paper on Audit Reform: Will Kwarteng's reforms really unchain entrepreneurs?
In 2012, as a recently elected MP, Kwasi Kwarteng co-authored “Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Properity”, a political pamphlet which championed risk-taking and innovation in the UK economy, and which ever since has led some to label him a fervent Brexiteer. Appointed as the Business Secretary in January 2021, only a few months later his department (BEIS) published one of the longest and most ambitious government White Papers in recent years.
