Article 3
Credit risk of individual crowdfunding projects
The description provided to investors of the method to assess the credit risk of individual crowdfunding projects within a portfolio as referred to in Article 6(2), point (a) of Regulation (EU) 2020/1503, shall contain all of the following elements:
(a) |
the criteria and the key financial indicators used to establish the feasibility and sustainability of the business plans of the individual crowdfunding projects; |
(b) |
an analysis of the expected cash flows of the crowdfunding projects and an assessment of how certain those expected cash flows are over different time horizons; |
(c) |
an analysis of the characteristics, including the degree of competition, of the business sector in which the project owners operate; |
(d) |
an assessment of the project owners’ knowledge, experience, reputation and capacity to manage business activities in the project’s specific sector; |
(e) |
the procedures regarding the acceptance and recognition of collateral or guarantee and credit risk mitigation measures, where relevant; |
(f) |
the type of the repayment schedule for the loan and the frequency of instalments; |
(g) |
the procedures to assign each loan associated with a project to an appropriate risk category as defined by the risk management framework; |
(h) |
the source and type of data used for the purposes of points (a) to (g). |