As the working year draws to a close, our latest two loan offerings, risk-rated A+ and yielding seven per cent, are currently 57 per cent filled – and just closed. We expect the remaining loan offer to fill quickly. Loans Latest HTHL is a £200,000 loan with a term of12 months. Monies raised will be […]
In the final stage of his odyssey through cryptos, digital tokens and currencies, our communications director, award-winning journalist Martin Baker, draws some sobering conclusions and reveals his own plans for potential future investment in this volatile sector. The conventional wisdom nowadays is that cryptocurrencies have moved beyond being tools of criminality. From what I see, […]
Martin Baker, Money&Co.’s director of communications, continues his journey through the fast-changing and intensely competitive world of digital currencies Private v Public Digital Money One of the reasons the central banks are so keen to popularise CBDCs is the fear that investment and digital banks will privatise the money supply. The private sector is scrambling […]
Our latest loan offerings, risk-rated A+ and yielding seven per cent, are currently 57 per cent and 36 per cent filled. It’s at moments such as these that we like to review the bid process. Some of our lenders have been rather passive – they have parked cash in their accounts without allocating it to […]
This year has proven to be one of tremendous progress in the world of cryptocurrencies, digital tokens and central-bank digital currencies. But progress comes at a cost. The land of opportunity can also turn into the Wild West, as our friends at The Fintech Times report: Billions of dollars in crypto assets have been stolen […]
Many an eyebrow was raised at the timing of this week’s tiny rise in base rates. Our friends at leading trade publication, P2P Finance News, called to ask our reaction. We excerpt the lead of the story below. Peer-to-peer lending platforms have claimed that the Bank of England’s base rate increase to 0.25 per cent […]
Martin Baker, award-winning journalist and head of communications at Money&Co., opines on central banks, their competition for CBDC dominance and their dislike of cryptos Regulators Dislike Cryptos Regulators by definition cannot control tokens outside their banking system, so their antipathy is natural enough. This can spill over into wishful thinking. The Bank for International Settlements’ […]
Martin Baker, award-winning journalist and head of communications at Money&Co., comes to some conclusions on cryptos, digital currencies and NFTs. “I can tell if a cryptocurrency is going to go up or down. All I have to do is look at it. Why? Because I’m young.” George, aged 18, speaking at the time of the […]
The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending section of the alternative-finance sector continues to evolve. Our strategy of niche lending here at Money&Co. is clear, as evidenced by this recent News report. Our friends at Altfi report the latest developments in the P2P sector: Lending Works, one of the oldest UK peer-to-peer lending platforms, is exiting the retail funding […]
There’s good news about what promises to be a very string new financial year ahead. We were recently called for an update by leading trade publication, P2P Finance News. The report is set out below. Money&Co. made a loss of approximately £200,000 in the year ending 31 March 2021, but the platform’s chief executive Nicola […]