Franchise fee is a unique form of commercial operation. It means that the brand holder grants intangible assets such as intellectual property rights (including inventions, patents, trademarks and copyrights), organizational management assets, market assets and human assets of the enterprise brand to franchisees in the form of contracts, and franchisees engage in business activities under a unified business model according to the contracts and pay certain fees to the brand holder.

Illegal financing refers to an activity that, without the approval of the relevant departments, does not absorb funds from unspecified social objects in the name of absorbing public deposits, but promises to fulfill the same obligations as absorbing public deposits.

Characteristics of illegal financing:

First, without the approval of relevant departments according to law, including fund-raising without the approval of departments with approval authority; The department with the power of examination and approval ultra vires to examine and approve fund-raising.

The second is to promise to repay the principal and interest to investors within a certain period of time. Debt service is mainly in the form of money, but there are also physical and other forms.

The third is to raise funds from unspecified objects in society. The "unspecified object" here refers to the public, not a specific minority.

The fourth is to cover up the essence of illegal fund-raising in a legal form.

Like illegal fund-raising, there are various ways to raise funds, and various criminal acts are intertwined.