New York, US-based electronic trading firm Virtu Financial Inc filed confidential documents for an initial public offering (IPO), according to sources familiar with the situation.
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An analysis of the filings made by small businesses with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicate that more than 320 of them would want to raise funding via social media, and a handful had already raised funding.
The use of the JOBS Act for the Twitter IPO a concern for investors. The main question would be, how much is Twitter really worth? The microblogging site has over 200 million active users and has been instrumental in the Arab Spring protests two years ago.
The JOBS Act is what made Twitter's IPO secretive and relatively inexpensive. Twitter is taking a different path en route to its IPO. This may become the path that many others after it would follow, especially in this day and age of excessive sharing through social media.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission, hoping for increased investor mobility, voted for the implementation of the JOBS Act.
Liberty Harbor Capital LLC is a Goldman Sachs subsidiary that would fund middle market firms with weak credit ratings.
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