BCC criticises a system that’s not getting money to business The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), a business lobby group, this week said the recovery was “moving forward” but warned that “repairing our broken business finance system” was “a top priority”, according to a report from the BBC. “These results reinforce the case against the […]
Crowdfunding now takes cenre stage Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, harboured ambitions to be an actress, but three years as a student at Oxford turned her head, and a career in finance followed, reports Economia magazine in a recent profile of Nicola. Economia describes itself as “the member publication for ICAEW chartered accountants… essential technical accountancy […]
Thanks to our friends at The Mirror for directing musical entrepreneur Allan Siema in the direction of Money&Co. (we’d provide a link, but for some reason the BizBureau section of Mirror coverage doesn’t appear on its online offering). We’d be delighted to hear from Allan. We have more than £5 million of would-be borrowers lined […]
Engaging with a friendly crowd at the Wine Bear West Oxfordshire business folk gathered at the Wine Bear in Chipping Norton to hear Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick speak on funding for small business, the way banks have failed to cater for savers’ needs – and the potential solutions offered by crowdfunding. Savers, investors and owners […]
The goal is to get everyone talking about crowd investment in business Money&Co.’s CEO Nicola Horlick is on a crusade – to take crowdfunding to the people. It starts in Chipping Norton tonight. Nicola is speaking at the Wine Bear, a small wine-retail business in the centre of the town, with the aim of explaining […]
Dean Paul Newbronner of Pitch Perfect Club We are delighted to welcome Pitch Perfect Club to Money&Co. The company’s loan auction opens today, and has been awarded a B+ credit rating by our credit-analysis team. We are a crowdfunding platform, and cannot endorse any prospective borrower. However, we have used our best efforts to ensure […]
Slow and steady to start… Today sees a guest blog from Cambridge-based researcher, Emily Mackay. Ms Mackay trawls the online world for “big data” – the numbers on capital flows, broken down by sector (equity, loan, charity, project, etc). Hers is a thoughtful and intelligent voice in the world of crowdfunding – a world that […]
NISAs, with tax-free returns, expected to include crowdfunded investments and loans “It has been a good week for savers,” opines Richard Evans, quite rightly in our view, in the Telegraph. On Tuesday, the amount that could be put into tax-free Isas – or NISAs (New Individual Savings Accounts as they are now called) rose to […]
A loan offer very much to our lenders’ taste Many congratulations to our Soulful Foods and Iain Burke-Hamilton. The loan auction was successful in raising £360,000 – capital that will be used to grow the business. Ian – pictured above – started making soups and stews for his lunch whilst working for M & […]
Who’s still afraid of the big, bad banker? Savers, investors, lenders – and the banks – are heading for the crowdfunding sector at a breakneck pace. But do they all know what they’re doing? Crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, isn’t sure: “Not all the banks may fully understand the threat they’re under from crowdfunding platforms, […]