Micro-investing platform Odin — which lets investors pool their cheques to back startups and VC funds — has been told to stop onboarding new customers and halt new and partially funded live deals by the UK financial regulator the FCA.
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August 23, 2024
Micro-investing platform Odin told to halt deals by UK regulator
“We’ve had some upset customers and we want to say — we hear you, and we understand why you’re annoyed," the company said in a statement
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz was a senior reporter at Sifted. He covered AI and UK tech.

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