Category Archives: News

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Spreading Investment Helps Limit Risk: Here’s How

Today, we revisit a timeless classic of our repository of investment wisdom: the benefit of spreading risk. Conveniently enough, we have an investment product that facilitates just such an outcome. Diversification in your loan portfolio We run an excerpt from an earlier, home-grown piece here in News on the benefits of diversification. Clients of the […]

AltFi Equity Investors Dish Out Prizes

The Enterprise Investment Association focuses on equity investment – shares as opposed to the loans we specialise in here at Money&Co. Today we offer a glimpse over the other side of the investment fence as the association announces the winners of some gongs: The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association, the membership organisation focused on investing in […]

European Card And Payment Market Expands

Today, we bring you another appealing story with a European flavour. Will the kind of Brexit the UK government negotiating (or not) make a difference to UK companies? Time will tell. Our friends at AltFi report: European expansion is on the cards (pun intended) at payments provider Modulr, which has secured a European electronic money institution (EMI) […]

Banking Faces Challenges In AltFi World Where Cash Is King

One way of challenging banking norms  –  an increasingly popular activity nowadays – is to offer cashback. Assuming cash remains popular, which is probable in the short term, this new development, reported by our friends at Crowdfundinsider, could have quite a radical effect across the alternative-finance sector: Upside Saving, a UK-based open-banking-marketing-platform connects Brands with […]

Property-Backed AltFi Loans In Review

Regular readers of this News section will be aware of Money&Co.’s increasing focus on niche markets, such as music-rights lending, and property-backed loans. Our friends at AltFi report on the current shape of the overall UK alternative-finance lending sector here: LendInvest was responsible for the lion’s share of peer-to-peer property lending in 2019, accounting for a […]

Loan Portfolios: The Benefits Of Spreading Assets And Lowering Risk

We return to a familiar theme today – the benefits of spreading loan assets across a wide range of companies, and in so doing, mitigating risk. We run an excerpt from an earlier, home-grown piece here in News on the benefits of diversification. Clients of the Money&Co Portfolio Service have access to loans with a […]

SME Funding Optimists: Badly Informed Pessimists?

“Despite economic uncertainty, angel investors are continuing to invest in early-stage businesses and are optimistic about the future, the British Business Bank has found.” Is this a realistic appraisal or something akin to the jingoistic drivel (eyes, shut, fingers in ears – it’s all fine) we’re being fed on the political front? Our friends at […]