Hugo Moredo Santos speaker at the Parliament

Hugo Moredo Santos, managing associate at VdA's Banking & Finance practice was guest speaker at the Parliament's auditorium in a parliamentary conference on "Regulation on crowdfunding in Portugal", in a panel that discussed the "advantages and disadvantages of crowdfrunding regulation". This financing model, which is an alternative option to the traditional bank financing and has become ever more popular, allows for an entity to rise limited funding from the general public in the form of donations, loans or venture capital in order to develop a project or idea.