UK may take a leadership role – despite US’s head start Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick has today made her debut in the global talking shop that is the Huffington Post. It’s all part of the mission to raise awareness of what’s available out here – in a world far away from the banks. Nicola writes […]
Crowdfunding numbers are growing, as is the crowd… The crowdfunding mission continues. Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, recently posted a guest blog on the business of crowdfunding in The Independent. She used the Irwin Mitchell crowdfunding survey, which featured in our news report of yesterday, as her starting point. “73 per cent of respondents said they […]
Survey shows entrepreneurs and business leaders are turning to the crowd Part of our brief at Money&Co. is to raise awareness of crowdfunding in general as an attractive and worthwhile alternative to banks. Banks, as we have consistently reported, have failed borrowers and savers alike. So we are delighted to report that a recent survey […]
They’re coming to take the bankers away, ha, ha… While are delighted to report that crowdfunding is growing in leaps and bounds, this seems to be in spite of low levels of awareness amongst the public in general. The mainstream media is doing its admirable best to change that, though. Money&Co. is cited in a […]
Crowdfunding: an attractive alternative, available now There isn’t really an excuse for the miserable returns that banks offer deposit account investors, as I pointed out in an earlier blog. But base rates, a key factor in determining retail-deposit rates, are extremely low right now. So a very important question must be where rates will be […]
Nicola Horlick on bank depositors’ plight Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, examines the interest rate environment ahead of the forthcoming Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee announcement. In her latest blog, she notes the plight of deposit account investors: “The fact that interest rates are less likely to rise than previously thought has been reflected in […]
They are the crowd – and they’re generating far better rates for themselves than the banks are Crowdfunding is the spirit of the moment – and the future. No need to take our word for it: Just read this, written by our friends at crowdfundinsider.com. “Peer to peer lending is all the rage these days […]
The Money&Co. team made it back to London from Birmaingham at the end of the week with good news to report. A series of meetings with local business people, lenders, media representatives and organisations such as the local chambers of commerce, ending with an event co-hosted by FD Solutions, yielded excellent results, according to […]
Lenders leaving our Bruton Place offices after coffee, croissants and credit analysis This week’s lenders’ breakfast at Money&Co.’s Mayfair offices was an engaged and engaging affair. The senior members of the Money&Co. team were all there. CEO Nicola Horlick gave a short talk about our business – using state-of-the-art technology to create funding for our […]
Vince Cable knows a bad deal when he sees one The second city is the centre of the Money&Co. universe today. A senior team of Money&Co. executives, led by CEO Nicola Horlick, is on a mission to spread the crowdfunding word in Birmingham. The message is simple: we bring people and businesses together. Individual savers […]