The Enterprise Investment Association focuses on equity investment – shares as opposed to the loans we specialise in here at Money&Co. Today we offer a glimpse over the other side of the investment fence as the association announces the winners of some gongs: The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association, the membership organisation focused on investing in […]
Today, we bring you another appealing story with a European flavour. Will the kind of Brexit the UK government negotiating (or not) make a difference to UK companies? Time will tell. Our friends at AltFi report: European expansion is on the cards (pun intended) at payments provider Modulr, which has secured a European electronic money institution (EMI) […]
The journey to an integrated system for European crowdfunding very rules will take eight years, according to an opinion piece in Crowdfundinsider. The UK will not be a part of that journey. Is this a good thing or a bad one? We offer a taster, with more available if your interest or concern is aroused. […]
One way of challenging banking norms – an increasingly popular activity nowadays – is to offer cashback. Assuming cash remains popular, which is probable in the short term, this new development, reported by our friends at Crowdfundinsider, could have quite a radical effect across the alternative-finance sector: Upside Saving, a UK-based open-banking-marketing-platform connects Brands with […]
Regular readers of this News section will be aware of Money&Co.’s increasing focus on niche markets, such as music-rights lending, and property-backed loans. Our friends at AltFi report on the current shape of the overall UK alternative-finance lending sector here: LendInvest was responsible for the lion’s share of peer-to-peer property lending in 2019, accounting for a […]
We return to a familiar theme today – the benefits of spreading loan assets across a wide range of companies, and in so doing, mitigating risk. We run an excerpt from an earlier, home-grown piece here in News on the benefits of diversification. Clients of the Money&Co Portfolio Service have access to loans with a […]
Our friends at P2P Finance News recently came calling. We are happy to run their short news report: Money&Co is looking to expand its lending into TV and film rights as well as other areas of legal finance such as divorce. The peer-to-peer business lender has already pivoted into the niche areas of music loans and […]
We are not alone. Although whether the UK and our European friends are heading in the right direction is another matter. We’ve all been taking advantage of government support to get the SME sector through this horrible Covid-19 crisis. Little seems certain, other than that governmental aid has been a good idea – even if […]
“Despite economic uncertainty, angel investors are continuing to invest in early-stage businesses and are optimistic about the future, the British Business Bank has found.” Is this a realistic appraisal or something akin to the jingoistic drivel (eyes, shut, fingers in ears – it’s all fine) we’re being fed on the political front? Our friends at […]
Today we bring you a snapshot of the volatile alternative-finance lending sector. Our friends at AltFi run a piece on its recently published market report. One of the outcomes seems to be that Europe is catching up and will soon overtake the UK market: European originations among peer-to-peer and marketplace lending platforms soared by 80 per cent […]