 In August 2012, Richard Branson announced his support for crowdfunding, crowdinvesting and crowdlending platform BankToTheFuture.com in the "Telegraph" newspaper.In February 2013, the CrowdCube equity crowdfunding platform, which was launched in 2011, was authorised by the FSA.On 
18 March 2014, the first investor-led equity crowdfunding platform, SyndicateRoom, was authorised by the FCA.