The long-awaited legislation for Crowd-Sourced Funding becomes operational from 29 September 2017. This is great news for the small/medium enterprise community who have long suffered from a disadvantage in that they have been unable to go to the market to raise capital. Instead many small/medium enterprise operators have had to take out second and third mortgages on their homes, borrow from relatives and friends and run up large debts on credit cards so that they were able to finance their business operations.