Dean Paul Newbronner of Pitch Perfect Club We are delighted to welcome Pitch Perfect Club to Money&Co. The company’s loan auction opens today, and has been awarded a B+ credit rating by our credit-analysis team. We are a crowdfunding platform, and cannot endorse any prospective borrower. However, we have used our best efforts to ensure […]
Slow and steady to start… Today sees a guest blog from Cambridge-based researcher, Emily Mackay. Ms Mackay trawls the online world for “big data” – the numbers on capital flows, broken down by sector (equity, loan, charity, project, etc). Hers is a thoughtful and intelligent voice in the world of crowdfunding – a world that […]
NISAs, with tax-free returns, expected to include crowdfunded investments and loans “It has been a good week for savers,” opines Richard Evans, quite rightly in our view, in the Telegraph. On Tuesday, the amount that could be put into tax-free Isas – or NISAs (New Individual Savings Accounts as they are now called) rose to […]
A loan offer very much to our lenders’ taste Many congratulations to our Soulful Foods and Iain Burke-Hamilton. The loan auction was successful in raising £360,000 – capital that will be used to grow the business. Ian – pictured above – started making soups and stews for his lunch whilst working for M & […]
Who’s still afraid of the big, bad banker? Savers, investors, lenders – and the banks – are heading for the crowdfunding sector at a breakneck pace. But do they all know what they’re doing? Crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, isn’t sure: “Not all the banks may fully understand the threat they’re under from crowdfunding platforms, […]
The BBC Reports that Bank of England statistics “show it can still be a struggle for small businesses to get money from the banks. “This is why many are turning to what is called – crowdfunding – asking people to invest money in businesses or projects. More than nine million investments and donations were made […]
Hotel Chocolat is a great British success story. Between 2008 and 2013, when other retailers languished, it increased its number of stores by 174 per cent. Part of the funding for this expansion came from devotees of the brand, who invested in its first Chocolate Bond. Last week, it closed two more bonds; the Hotel […]
Many thanks to our friends at FD Solutions for hosting an excellent evening in Mayfair last week. Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick and Paul Dyson, founder of Data2Decisisons, spoke to an engaged audience on the topic of “funding for growth and developing an exit strategy”. “Nicola… originally came to prominence at Morgan Grenfell, being dubbed ‘Superwoman’ […]
Liverpool’s where it’s at in July Once Centre of Empire, now centre of our attention. Liverpool, just across the Mersey river from where Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick grew up, hosts the International Festival of Business in the first week of July. Local newspaper, the Liverpool Echo, is rightly excited about the “big hitters” […]
Use online offerings to get H – E – L – P ! Nicola Horlick, Money&Co.’s CEO, blasts UK banks’ savings offering to investors. In the second instalment of her two-part blog, she highlights the “ Great Savings Robbery” – or “maybe we should rename the institutions Britain’s ‘Robber Banks’,” she adds. For details of […]