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 […]
Reducing and digitising the retail network – or just self-harming? Commercial and retail banks appear to be very good judges of character – they don’t even like themselves. It may well be that investment banks are as implacably steeped in self-love and the relentless pursuit of profit as ever they were. But their commercial and […]
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 […]
The Milturn Precision Engineering loan worked really well for lenders and borrower alike The borrowers’ side of Money&Co.’s peer-to-peer lending (P2P) operation is all about providing liquidity that allows UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to be flexible and creative in their business dealings. The lending side of that self-same equation means that lenders to […]