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Article 3 - Credit risk of individual crowdfunding projects

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).