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Cutting Edge Capital (CEC) was selected to lead the Cap and Trade Market Monitor Training for the California Air Resources Board (ARB).
The CEC team is particularly excited because this is entirely new ground. We are essentially helping create a model that can replicated across the nation and potentially, around the world.
California’s cap and trade market incentives are the crucial element that will enable the State to meet its aggressive AB32 mandated greenhouse gas emission target. A cap and trade system sets limits on greenhouse gases and creates market incentives to encourage major polluters such as oil refineries, electricity generators and major industrial enterprise to reduce emissions.
Commencing immediately, the CEC team, led by John Katovich and Ed Quevedo with assistance from Kristin York, Kim Morris and Sarah Isabel Parriott will deliver technical market-based and regulatory advisory services to the Air Board. CEC will assist the ARB in fulfilling the directives contained in ARB Board Resolution 10-42, and support AB32 goals along with the general objectives of the Western Climate Initiative. Our team will develop a sound proof-of-concept that emulates conventional market systems for the new carbon trading system.
California’s cap and trade system is designed to create an efficient allocation of emissions allowances through auctioning, with transparent system oversight and minimal disruption to the power markets. Training will be focused on compliance and regulatory issues, fraud detection and marketing monitoring practices to support the administration of the upcoming California cap and trade program. Our team is currently scoping the design of a multiple day training program in anticipation of delivery prior to the August 15, 2012 targeted launch date for the auction.
Michael Shuman is quoted in this article: Hyper-local markets provide big economic boost by Stacy Finz in the SF Chronicle.
Read this article by John Katovich, Alternative capital financing for the 99% (of business) for the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) Focus monthly newsletter.
Read this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Entrepreneurs Get Creative to Raise Funds for Jenny Kassan’s take on crowdfunding.
Read this article from Crains Cleveland Business which features Michael Shuman: Business of Food: Taking Stock of the Food Economy
Pre-order Michael Shuman’s new book Local Dollars, Local Sense! Learn “how to shift your money from Wall Street to Main Street and achieve real prosperity”.
Watch Jenny Kassan’s May 2011 Lecture on Raising Capital for Cooperatives sponsored by NoBAWC (Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives) and held at The Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission District. Jenny discusses the in and out’s of securities regulation, state and federal law, exemptions, as well as various strategies that small businesses and cooperatives have used to raise needed capital.
Watch Jenny Kassan’s bonus companion piece to her May 2011 Lecture on Raising Capital for Cooperatives. This video is a follow up to her NoBAWC sponsored lecture and includes important updates and additional information to audience questions.
Article on Michael Shuman, The Economist at the Forefront of the Farm-to-Table Movement by Bruce Shoenfeld of Entreprenuer magazine.
Watch Jenny Kassan at the “ACCELERATING COMMUNITY CAPITAL WORKSHOP: The Legal Landscape” during the 2011 BALLE Conference held in Bellingham, WA.
Cutting Edge Capital was launched at the Hub in Berkeley with a panel of experts including Don Shaffer of RSF Social Finance, Leslie Christian of Portfolio 21, and other experts on community finance. Click here to see the video.
See Wall Street Journal article on Local Stock Exchanges.
Read Jenny Kassan’s article in the California Business Law Practitioner, Raising Seed Capital From the Rest of Us.
Jenny Kassan entered the SOCAP Impact Challenge, answering the question:How will social enterprise unlock the $120 billion market opportunity for individual impact investment?
SHE FINISHED IN THE TOP FIVE! Read her article on triplepundit.com.
Watch Michael Shuman discussing local stock exchanges.
Listen to John Katovich, Jenny Kassan, and Michael Shuman discussing Raising Sustainable Capital: Existing Tools and Potential Public Policies and watch their presentation.
Listen to Jenny Kassan, Derek Huntington, and Thomas Greco talk at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies Conference on Foundations for Credit and Finance in a Local Living Economy.
John Katovich on What Local Stock Exchanges Might Look Like in Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Watch Chris Michael from Worker’s Diner, a CEC client, present on Creative Strategies for Raising Cooperative Equity at the 2010 National Cooperative Worker Conference sponsored by the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives.
Check out our partner’s web site on the campaign to make securities law friendlier for community finance – crowdfundinglaw.com
Article on Grassroots Financing by Stacy Mitchell of the New Rules Project
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HIGHLIGHTS from the KATOVICH LAW GROUP BLOG on Securities Law and Practical Capital Raising Strategies and Policies
Using the SCOR form to raise up to a million dollars from the public
The Intrastate Exemption to Federal Securities Registration
Crowdfunding – a viable model for small business fundraising?
How did Awaken Café raise start up funds from its community?
Love a Local Business? Advise it to be careful about selling shares!
Don’t think that offering loans instead of stock is the way to avoid securities regulations!
Securities Law and Co-op Membership
Securities Law Exemptions – First in a Series
Is your REI membership a security?
The California 25102(f) exemption from securities qualification
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