Demand is strong for our latest loan offering from webuyanyhome.com. It is A+ rated, and is property-backed – ie, it is secured against property. It is currently 74 per cent funded, with a gross indicative yield of around 8 per cent. A technical problem put the auction out of action for a while. We informed all registered […]
Our communications director, award-winning author and journalist, Martin Baker, makes some (slightly scary) calls for 2017, examines what he got right and wrong in his 2016 predictions, and offers readers a chance to have advance notice of the publication of his latest book. See Blog latest. Loan Latest Our latest loan offering, from webuyanyhome.com, is A+ […]
Happy New Year to all our lenders, borrowers and readers. 2017 promises exciting times as Money&Co. develops new offerings and attractive new lines of business. Loan Latest Our latest loan offering, from webuyanyhome.com, is A+ rated, and is property-backed – ie, it is secured against property. It is currently 55 per cent funded, with a gross […]
Season’s greetings to all our lenders, borrowers and readers. Money&Co. will be back with more offerings, and more news of crowdfunding and alternative finance after the holidays. Loan Latest Our latest loan offering, from webuyanyhome.com, is A+ rated, and is property-backed – ie, it is secured against property. It is currently 55 per cent […]
The Telegraph runs a feature on what peer-to-peer (P2P) lending can do for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We run a short extract below, and suggest that you look at the type of loan we’ve been doing for our SME borrowers from an early stage. The Mecmesin £1 million loan, back in 2014, was believed […]
What future for FinTech? We’re in a vibrant, peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending sub-sector of the industry, and our hopes are high. So we were encouraged by a report from Credit Strategy, which relayed comments from a recent FinTech conference. “Stefan Franzke, chief executive of Berlin Partner for business and technology, was complimentary about the importance […]
Risk and its clear explanation – otherwise known as transparency – have dominated the peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending scene in the last few weeks. We have covered risk awareness amongst lenders in the light of the recent FCA statement, reminded lenders of the importance of access and security as well as yield, and amplified calls […]
Fund management magazine, AlphaQ, runs a reprise of recently published research from KPMG and platform TWINO. The news paints a picture of a robust industry. “The report shows that the UK still leads the way in alternative finance, with four times higher volumes in aggregate than the rest of Continental Europe. Despite this, the key […]
The decision to keep interest rates on hold has had predictable effects in the financial-services industry, and amongst the media covering the sector. It is true to say that low rates are bad news for savers with cash in bank and building society deposit accounts. Our friends at Peer2Peer Finance News put it this way: […]
The crowdfunding industry is definitely entering a new phase. The traditional split of “mainstream” crowdfunding consists of the following categories: projects, peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending, and equity raises. Project financing can have an altruistic tint: commit capital and help fund a charity, a book, even – famously and frivolously – a potato salad for a community barbecue. […]