Business Background Funding Circle is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that empowers private investors, governments, and financial institutions to lend money directly to small businesses. These investors can choose to lend conservatively to only firms assessed as low risk, or to loan funds to the full range of the site’s creditworthy borrowers for a higher projected return. The first website to facilitate peer-to-peer business financing in the UK, Funding Circle now also operates in the US, Germany, and the Netherlands. Its 81,000 global investors have lent approximately £7 billion to date, creating an estimated 115,000 new jobs in 2018 alone. Given the rapid evolution of the cyber-attacks targeting these funds — as well as the equally rapid expansion of the company itself — Fu

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