Today, we offer an opinion piece from crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, with which Money&Co., has a close association, including the co-sponsorship of two alternative finance conferences (with another one coming up in November). We live in a world where lawyers write labels, because manufacturers are afraid of litigation. So we have to be told […]
Sometimes it’s good to revisit the simple verities of what we do as crowdfunders. Below, we reprise some of the materials to be found on our Knowledge Hub. We start off by answering the question of what crowdfunding is. “Crowdfunding is a general term for the process of raising money. Back in the early days […]
As our latest loan offering moves to close, we offer some tips – things lenders would do well to consider. This is not advice, merely commentary, and a counsel of caution. While we are passionate about bringing individuals looking to lend for a good return together with carefully vetted businesses seeking funds to expand, it’s very […]
Today, we offer a tale from crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, with which Money&Co., has a close association, including the co-sponsorship of two alternative finance conferences (with another one coming up in November). “The results are in from the first survey of UK startup’s attitudes to Brexit. We could cherry-pick some statistics and tell you […]
Generalist platform Crowd2Fund has launched a robot-driven portfolio investment service, according to our friends at Crowdfundinsider. Crowd2Fund has “a new intelligent investment feature known as Smart-Invest, which will reportedly allow investors to automate their crowdlending investments. “The UK peer-to-peer lending platform stated: ‘The Smart-Invest feature is the culmination of research into Artificial Intelligence and consultation with leading […]
Well, we did say that loan offerings tended to come along like buses. You wait a while, and then suddenly there’s a glut of them… The latest offering on site, an A-rated three-year loan of over £121,000 to an independent financial adviser that is acquiring a competitor, is in effect the second instalment of the […]
Governance is crucial to the future of the P2P sector, says the commentary sector of iii.co.uk, a long-established dealing platform. “While the P2P industry has some growing pains, which need to be addressed, Turner’s sweeping statement fails to take into account the huge variety of providers and their diverse approaches to security and transparency and, […]
Professor Robert Wardrop and Tania Ziegler of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School offer an engaging and comprehensive review of where they believe crowdfunding in Europe is going, particularly in the light of the FCA’s review of UK Crowdfunding. The article is too long to reproduce in full here. Crowdfundinsder carries the full piece. Below, we […]
What we do is simple. We bring individual lenders seeking good returns on capital together with carefully vetted small companies looking for funds to expand. It’s known as peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending, and it’s becoming more and more popular. The industry is young (for example, we’re reasonably well established and yet we’ve been trading for […]
David Prosser, formerly of The Independent, blogs in Forbes on the Financial Current Authority’s (FCA) current review of peer-to-peer lending. David’s views are always worth listening to, and this article is no exception: “Does Britain’s booming crowdfunding industry really have a problem with investor protection? The unveiling by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of a […]