Get ready to celebrate… We’re building up to the big one! The entry form for the grand prize draw of £10,000 opened yesterday and will close at midnight tonight. If you’ve already found all five of our hidden gems, and have all five of the entry codes, click here to enter the £10,000 Fortune Finders Grand […]
If you’ve already found all five of our hidden gems, and have all five of the entry codes, click here to enter the £10,000 Fortune Finders Grand Prize draw. If not, click here to complete the rest of the treasure hunts and earn yourself a ticket to potential riches. You have until midnight on Friday 21st November […]
Martin Baker, head of communications at Money&Co., in conversation with our friends at Share Radio on crowdfunding, peer-to-business lending and the financial world in general.
The alternative-finance way of matching borrowers and lenders is yielding exciting results Cambridge University and Nesta recently published a report entitled “Understanding Alternative Finance”. According to the report, the alternative finance market in the UK will have provided £1.74 billion during 2014 and this compares to £267 million in 2012 and £666 million in 2013. […]
We may be approaching the end of our 10-day competition for the public to find the treasure – an investment fortune worth £10,000 – but there is still time for everyone to enter and find the treasure! The online treasure hunt, known as Fortune Finders, was designed so that anyone can play to win right […]
The LendIt conference in London’s Bishopsgate produced some interesting debate, and further proof that crowdfunding has a rosy future. A gathering of peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders (also known as person-to-business or P2B lender) generated lost of interesting talk – and the promise of some deeds that may benefit crowdfunders, businesses and individuals alike. Nicola Horlick, Money&Co.’s […]
We are delighted to announce our second £1,000 winner in the mini-treasure hunt Money&Co. draw. Congratulations go to Darren, from Epsom, who works in the aviation industry. Darren helped to plant the ceramic poppies at the Tower of London (he is pictured above, sitting amidst some of his handiwork). He discovered crowdfunding and the Money&Co. […]
Pension planning is a massive issue for our ageing UK population. So the question of which options we should all consider for our retirement is clearly a very important one. My personal opinion is that the UK government should allow peer-to-peer business loans (P2P or P2B assets – as you prefer) to be held with […]
I have long believed that forcing people to buy annuities was unfair, and was a poor way for pensions to be invested. And so the government’s decision to remove the compulsion to buy an annuity at age 75 and, indeed, to allow anyone over 55 to take their pension money and invest it for themselves, […]
When will it finally dry up? The Federal Reserve in the US has been looking to extract itself from its quantitative easing programme (QE) over the last 18 months, but feared that if it did so too soon, it would cause turmoil in the financial markets. It has finally concluded, after having made $4 trillion […]