While we are very from being a dating agency, Money&Co. undoubtedly is in the matchmaking business. We help individuals looking for a good return on their capital find carefully vetted small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking founds for growth. So we see the logic of a new “dating-style” offering from our colleagues in property crowdfunding. […]
Growth for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is what we are all about. We bring individuals seeking a good return on capital together with SMEs seeking funding for growth. Our friends at Growth Business offer an overview of the UK’s SME scene, including some sectors it sees as particularly strong: “Tech firms are increasing at rates […]
The peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending sub-sector of crowdfunding has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks. Much of this is directly attributable to the troubles suffered by the large, quoted P2P lender, Lending Club. Diligence and verification are at a premium (and see below for our own take on this topic). Meanwhile UK Business Insider […]
Hello and welcome to a new weekly feature. Our director of content and communications briefs Money&Co.’s executive team every day on the most important stories in crowdfunding, small-business funding, and alternative finance. Below we offer his distillation of the most interesting “must-read” stories of the week. The stories are broken down by geographic area (UK, […]
Today, we offer a grateful and to our friends at CityA.M. and InvestingZone. InvestingZone’s Jean Miller looks at mergers and joint ventures in mainstream finance and crowdfunding. InvestingZone recently merged with corporate finance house, Acceleris. This is a thoughtful contribution to the mainstream versus alternative debate in financial services. Below is an extended excerpt from […]
To quote Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” So we should perhaps view the recent comments of the US investment bank, Morgan Stanley, with a slightly cocked head. The bank takes a very positive view of P2P in a recent Forbes article, which asks whether peer-to-peer (P2P) lending might […]
Today, a little light relief. This article, from Wired, deals with what is claimed to be thee largest-ever crowdfunding raise. But the logic buried within this equity/projects raise reads like something from 2001 A Space Odyssey or the Terminator movie series – as the system takes on a life of its own… “The Decentralized Autonomous […]
Alan Mak MP announces a new all-party parliamentary group on entrepreneurship via Politics Home. We welcome the move – so long as it amounts to more than another talking shop. Mr Mak has a reputation as an able and effective politician. Let’s hope the new group genuinely helps to promote entrepreneurial culture in the UK. […]
Ryan Weeks, editor of AltFi and a leading journalist in the crowdfunding space, blogs in TechCrunch “in defence of P2P”. It’s excellent to hear a sane, measured voice amid the shrill – indeed, gleeful – hysteria that followed the Lending Club affair. An extended excerpt follows, with our grateful thanks to Ryan and TechCrunch. For […]
Sometimes it’s good to see the view from the outside as better way of seeing how we really are. Today, we run an extended excerpt from a thoughtful blog in Bob’s Guide. The argument runs that the UK government has made Britain a great place for FinTech in general – but that this favourable environment […]