Find the gems and the codes – and you’ll be in the hunt Our £10,000 Fortune Finder competition will run for ten days, and will feature six hunt games. The first five games will take place over ten days, and have a £1,000 prize. The last hunt will be for the jackpot prize of an investment […]
Become a treasure hunter by registering as a user and signing up There are only two days to go to the launch of Money&Co.’s Treasure Hunt. It’s free to enter, and hunters will have a chance of winning five prizes of £1,000 -and a jackpot of a £10,000 investment at the end of the 10-day […]
Wake up and smell the interest Sunday for many is a day of reflection. So here’s something to ponder over your coffee and newspapers as the joint roasts: leading financial comparison site moneysupermarket.com is getting excited about a savings account that yields just three per cent. That’s three per cent… “For the highest easy access […]
What’s the secret of the hidden gem? See below The alternative finance industry in the UK “is set to burst through the £4 billion mark for fundraising by next year,” according to a report in The Independent. The Independent quotes a study by the National Endowments for Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta), which predicts […]
Virtual Paris – this Eiffel Tower’s in Las Vegas The Crowdfunding industry is the fastest growing financing source for Small and Medium Businesses in the World,” reports crowdfunding intelligence platform, crowdfundbeat.co.uk. The platform quotes some rather mouldy (2012) growth data, but goes on to make the valid point that our industry is “a major, long-term […]
Credit analyst Toby Furnivall, left, speaking at a Money&Co. breakfast earlier this year As a peer-to-peer (P2P) loan-based crowdfunder, Money&Co.’s business model will be familiar to regular visitors to the site: We bring people together with businesses. After yesterday’s look at a lenders’ breakfast, today we bring news of the borrowers’ side of the equation. […]
The latest breakfast at Bruton Place was a well-attended and engaging event Money&Co. hosted its latest breakfast at our Bruton Place offices yesterday. The heady mix of, cakes, coffee and credit analysis made fort an engaging discussion. “We’ve done a few of these breakfasts in London and around the country, and they’re consistently worthwhile events […]
Share Radio presenter Georgie Frost in one of the stations custom-built studios in Pimlico, London A very warm welcome to Share Radio, which started broadcasting this morning. This new business is so young that at Money&Co. we feel, with our six-month trading history, positively old! Headed up by CEO Gavin Oldham, formerly of Barclays […]
P2PFA says FCA must find the right regulatory track “Crowdfunding is a way businesses, organisations and individuals can raise money. Generally, it involves a number of people pooling money through a website, often called a platform.” The words we quote here on Money&Co.’s crowdfunding platform are those of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). As we […]
There may be P2P lending gold in them there hills… via NISA tax reforms The crowdfunded peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market is “fascinating”, according to commentator Ed Bowsher of Money Week. “The government is now consulting on plans to allow P2P lenders to place their loans within an Isa wrapper. This is great news for all […]