You always know when a sector like alternative finance has hit the big time - the regulators start to take a close interest.
As a growing number of sophisticated private investors and wealth advisers start to dip their toes into the waters of peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding, the regulators have at long last stirred. According to the Sunday Times, the FCA now says crowdfunding sites in particular should only be “targeted at investors who know how to value a start-up business, and who appreciate the risks involved and that they could lose all of their money...
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