Final crowdfunding rules are not likely to be in place until late 2014 because the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission need to take more action, according to a blog on corporate and securities regulation.

TheCorporateCounsel.net blog said today that Finra still needs to create a regulatory system for funding portals and the SEC is still developing rules.

“As a result, the ability to do exempt crowdfunding offerings remains limited, except that many are anticipating the ability to do more accredited investor-only crowdfunding offerings once general solicitation is permitted under Rule 506 after the September 23, 2013, effective date of those JOBS Act mandated rule changes,” the authors noted.

TheCorporateCounsel.net added the SEC’s proposed amendments to Regulation D and Form D to have investor safeguards when the general solicitation ban is lifted is drawing fire as not being faithful to the JOBS act's goal of promoting capital formation.

The SEC’s crowdfunding rules will set the standards for exempt crowdfunding offerings to non-accredited investors, subject to a $1 million cap over a rolling 12-month period and dollar limits on an investor's financial position.

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