Tag: P2P platform

May 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

P2P crypto trading platform CoinTouch (and other) sites shut due to GDPR legal concerns

File this one under the title of Unintended Consequences. After gaining popularity among many Bitcoin and crypto token traders in recent months, P2P trading platform CoinTouch has announced on its website at cointouch.com that it is shutting down due to uncertainty which the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents to website operators. Chris Beach, who…

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November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

LendingCrowd receives full authorisation from the FCA

LendingCrowd, UK’s alternative finance lenders to the SME market, has received full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - making it the UK’s second P2P platform and first P2P lender to SMEs to move from interim to full authorisation status. Effective as of 1st November 2016, authorisation translates to LendingCrowd meeting the stipulated “rigorous…

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