Watchdog blames social media ‘hype’ and competitiveness for younger investors’ bets on crypto October 20, 2021 Three quarters of younger investors in the UK who place their bets on high-risk products, such as cryptocurrencies, say they are driven by “competition” with friends and their own past investments, according to new research from the FCA. Of the 1000 UK younger investors that the FCA surveyed between the ages of 18 and 40 [...]