As one door closes, another opens. The £500,000 B-rated loan offer by soft furnishings manufacturer, Ultimate 99, is 81 per cent funded, and will close in nine days. Meanwhile, we are pleased to welcome a new £500,000 loan offer on site. Globavista has obtained an A rating from our credit-analysis process, and is seeking a […]
At Money&Co., we really like and respect the coverage of CityA.M. Already a fine nespaper and website, it has risen to new heights under the stewardship of editor, David Hellier. But no-one’s perfect (least of all us). Below, Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick picks a bone (or two, or more than two, actually) with a recently […]
The Sunday Times today features our CEO, Nicola Horlick, and her fashion designer daughter, Alice. Alice’s exquisite handbags – and equally delightful dogs – can be found at AEVHA London. One bag and one dog illustrate today’s story on the Money&Co. site. But back to The Sunday Times. The piece notes that “finances remain a taboo subject […]
Our friends at CityAM are beginning to distinguish themselves as crowdfunding commentators among mainstream media. This entertaining primer, aimed at the majority of readers (the crowd-to-be) who still need basic information, focuses primarily on equity crowdfunding – that’s share investment, primarily in start-ups. “Crowdfunding is widely defined as a (usually large) group of people donating, […]
Crowdnetic, the US crowdfunding market data specialist, has launched a UK data platform, CrowdWatchUK – a move warmly welcomed by Money&Co. Crowdnetic says that it “plans to deliver the same transparency for securities-based crowdfunding and marketplace lending in the UK that it has already successfully implemented in the US”. The company recently announced strategic partnerships to provide […]
Today, we start with a look at the crowdfunding deals on the other side of the fence – equity investment. Investment in shares offered via crowdfunding accounted for “almost a fifth of all the visible equity deals in the UK during the first half of last year,” according to a Telegraph news report. “The funding […]
We facilitated a management buyout deal in conditions of secrecy earlier this year. Management buyout (MBO) deals are typically done quickly and very discreetly. Now it’s all over, we are pleased to be able to publicise what happened, and the pivotal role we played. The company was Duchy Fasteners – the core team is pictured, above. Duchy Fasteners […]
We have good news, but we must be careful about how we share it with you. There has been another surge of interest in the latest loan offering on the Money&Co. site. A soft-furnishings manufacturer with a B-rated loan and a gross indicative yield of over 10 per cent at the time of writing attracted […]
There is a risk that the UK may be heading for deflation for the first time since 1960. The inflation figures for February will be released on Tuesday and are likely to show that the annual rate of inflation fell from 0.3 per cent to 0.2 per cent, but it may have been as low […]
While peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in the crowdfunding sector continues to grow strongly, there was some disappointment that last week’s Budget didn’t offer more. Many had hoped that P2P business lending would be approved as a suitable asset class for New Individual Savings Accounts (NISAs). The boost from the tax break (NISas allow more than £15,000 […]