After an unsurprisingly difficult 2020, this year is set to show solid growth in crypto-related mergers and acquisitions, according to extensively quoted research from PWC. The data shows that the crypto M&A sector more than doubled last year to $1.1 billion from 2019 figures. This year’s surge in crypto prices is leading a major boom […]
Bonnington Law is now filled, but there’s still one more loan offering, rated A+ on site. The Mar-Key Group loan has a duration of two years with a gross yield of seven per cent. It’s 46 per cent filled at the time of writing. The loan is eligible for inclusion in an Innovative Finance ISA. […]
The end of the tax year is approaching and you must use your ISA allowance by midnight on 5 April or you will lose it. The ISA allowance for 2020/21 is £20,000 if you are a UK taxpayer. With the bank holidays falling this Easter week end, the time to act is really by close […]
The latest offering to land on site is rated A+ – a rare mark of distinction from our credit committee – and has a duration of two years. The gross yield is seven per cent. Mar-Key Group is well-known to Money&Co. Below is an excerpt of its representations to lenders. We have done due diligence […]
Our head of content and communications is publishing a series of articles on the future of finance and the massive impact of the digital world in Byline Times. Here’s an extract from the first piece. Rethinking the nature of money is serious stuff: it is in effect the re-examination of a concept of value exchange […]
The end of the tax year is approaching and you must use your ISA allowance by midnight on 5 April or you will lose it. The ISA allowance for 2020/21 is £20,000 if you are a UK taxpayer. The Money&Co. Innovative Finance ISA allows you to receive interest on your loans completely tax free. Since […]
Further to yesterday’s news item, the big equity crowdfunding deal on the other side of the alternative-finance fence has hit the regulatory rocks. AltFi reports: Just hours after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) threw a wrench in Seedrs and Crowdcube’s plan to merge, both platforms have agreed to terminate the merger. “We’re obviously disappointed with the CMA’s findings but we […]
The equity side of crowdfunding is in crisis, with the proposed merger between Seedrs and Crowdcube subject to high levels of scrutiny. Both parties to the deal say the success of the merger is crucial to their continued survival. To offer a little context, we set out an excerpt from an earlier News item on […]
Ron Kalifa, a non-executive director of the Court of Directors at the Bank of England and the vice-chairman of WorldPay, has produced a long-awaited report on FinTech. The report starts well – with the ever-changing taxonomy of the industry. The simple point is that if we can’t agree standard terms for what FinTech is, we’ll never achieve […]
Financial regulatory authorities are trying hard to keep up with – or even stay ahead of – the pace of change in the digital aspects of FinTech. Increased vigilance is the least that should be happening, for a number of good reasons. Our friends at AltFi report on one of them here: The pandemic has […]