THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is encouraging more crowdfunding companies to step up and provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with an alternate source of funding.

"We want them to tap [the SEC], especially the digital platforms. We're there. Because the whole idea is to allow our SMEs ... a source of capital raising opportunities," SEC Chairman Emilio Aquino told reporters last week.

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