Nicola Horlick, Money&Co.’s CEO, pictured above at a recent event to explain the P2P business lending model, says of a recent piece in the Guardian that she couldn’t have put it better herself: “Peer-to-peer websites, which cut out the banks by putting people with money to lend in touch with those wanting to borrow, have been […]
Sunday is a day for quiet reflection, a cup of coffee, perhaps accompanied by something sweet and self-indulgent – and a moment of measured thought. Our suggested topic is investment yield. How much income is your capital generating for you? According to figures from the Building Society Association, savers and investors have £1.4 trillion held […]
Meet Peter, our Grand Prize winner in the Money&Co. Fortune Finder Treasure Hunt. Peter is based in Birmingham, and deals with all the challenges of modern corporate marketing. Now he has a different, rather more pleasant, problem to solve. How does he invest the £10,000 of his recent Grand Prize win? “I think my plan […]
You can take the girl out of Liverpool, but it seems you can’t take Liverpool out of the girl. Money&Co.’s recent trip to the city was led by CEO, Nicola Horlick, who hails from Mersyeside. The Liverpool Echo reports in detail below on a successful trip that awakened the interest of lenders and potential borrower […]
Tony Pycroft: “not a big fan of the banks” – but then, who is? We’re delighted to bring you news of the latest loan to be offered on Money&Co.’s peer-to-peer business lending platform. ARP Enforcement, which trades as Julious Enforcement Agents, is a credit-control company based in west Yorkshire. The company, headed by genial Yorkshireman, […]
Today we have a guest Money Matters blog from crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd. The UK arm of Santander Bank is aiming to launch an investment platform next year, which will include online guidance tools to help investors identify suitable funds without going to an adviser, according to a recent report in the Financial […]
The UK government is nothing if not determined to get funds to small and medium-sized enterprises. Much of the content of today’s Autumn Statement from Chancellor George Osborne has been leaked to the mainstream media. Reports in the Financial Times and Telegraph pretty much replicate the news carried by the BBC and The Independent. The […]
The peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending market is much smaller over here in the UK than it is in the US. But P2P lending, which is Money&Co.’s market, is growing fast. Just today we visited a leading academic in Cambridge, who confirmed his conviction – he is a major contributor to a report on the market, […]
Crowdfunding finds itself at a critical juncture in this pre-Christmas rush. The industry is growing at a phenomenal rate (see later in this article) – but is the government really doing its best to spread the good word amongst “ordinary” people? The simple fact is that peer-to-peer lending, otherwise known as bringing people together with […]
The week ahead will see those hidden gems translate into financial action. At least £14,000 of the £15,000 in prizes won by our Fortune Finder Treasure Hunters will be transferred to the accounts created for them. One of the winners is still playing hard-to-get. So the game’s still not officially over – we’ll re-draw the prize […]