Marvellous diction from Crowdfundinsider in a piece suggesting equity crowdfunding will replace venture capital, post-Covid-19 era. Nurture those abandoned sprouts, folks… The piece is focused mainly in the US, but the themes are universal. As VC funding dries up Equity Crowdfunding (EC) is ideally positioned to nurture the abandoned sprouts. Since the VC industry was […]
Hello. Today, we are very happy to let our friends at P2P Finance News report the latest for us. Money&Co has completed another £1m of litigation finance, as well as a £400,000 loan for music publishing company Bsides Music. The litigation finance is intended for tenants to take action against landlords, or homeowners of new […]
Great British Recapitalisation anyone? One of the issues that will surely become a hot topic come the end of the Covid-19 epidemic is the refinancing of the British economy. Below, we run an extract from an article that posits one certainty: equity raises will be a key part of the recovery plan. If existing shareholders […]
The early news of virus fallout from the alternative finance sector is coming in. Below we run an excerpt of news from the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) as reported by our friends at Crowdfundinsider. Our understanding – and direct experience here at Money&Co. – is that niche players will survive the crisis well. The ECN , […]
Regular readers will be aware that the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), part of the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, is a friend of Money&Co. Here’s just one of our recent reports on an institution we consider the leading source of data and analysis in the alternative finance industry. The CCAF has published the single most […]
We’ve been reporting regularly on the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). We see CBILS as a great idea whose execution is, at best, uneven. Our friends at P2P Finance News run a piece on the Coronavirus lending initiative, leading with a quote from Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick. See an excerpt from the article below. […]
Finance in the time of the Covid-19 virus… The government FinTech industry body Innovate Finance is joining the call of non-bank lenders for the government’s support in ensuring the lending to UK SMEs actually works. The idea is good; the intention is god – but the execution seems to be falling through the cracks. The money appears […]
Possibly the most notable FinTech contribution to help correct some of the disruption caused by coronavirus is the Covid Credit calculator. Our friends at AltFi cover this, and other innovations. We reproduce an excerpt from the news article below, and the full piece is available here. Covid Credit is a platform created by a collaboration between Fronted, 11:FS and […]
We’re politically agnostic here at Money&Co. – our only concern is finding high-quality borrowing companies to bring together with lenders seeking good returns on capital – so we try to let the facts speak for themselves. UK banks have now lent £453m through the government’s coronavirus business loans scheme as it picks up following an […]
Regular readers will be are that we like to keep a weather eye on cryptocurrencies and alternative assets. Our major focus is on the exciting new music-rights loan offering currently on offer (see below the excerpt on cryptos). Our friends at Crowdfundinsider take up the story: Big Four auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) reports that the majority of global […]