FT Adviser reports on the increasingly hot topic of regulation in crowdfunding. The potential ramifications of the testimony of the chairman of the Financial Conduct Authority before the Treasury Select Committee. “The chairman of the FCA has expressed concerns about peer-to-peer lending which he said was starting to look like banking, with one MP […]
It was a real pleasure to help design the agenda for the recent conference, Alternative Finance: New Solutions To Old Problems. The event was sponsored by Cubism Law, which played a leading role in framing the terms of the conference. Following Cubism Law’s lead was a host of significant players in the alternative finance sector, […]
These are exciting times for the peer-to-peer lending sub-sector of crowdfunding, as a recent speech and a new report indicate. The P2P sector – that’s the space we inhabit at Money&Co. – is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s leading regulator of financial services. The FCA has been widely and rightly praised […]
Several media outlets carry coverage of last week’s women in business event in Bristol, at which Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, spoke. “It’s the best time in 30 years to launch a business, former City ‘superwoman’ tells entrepreneurs,” runs the headline in Swindon Business News. The conference dealt with broader issues, but did focus on emtrepreneurship […]
The crowdfunding industry is still very young. Arguably any company over five years old is a veteran of the space. So practitioners, investors and lenders alike are presented with an opportunity and a challenge. We have an opportunity as the new kids on the block to provide better value for lenders and investors and to […]
Crowdfundinsider caught up with Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, at a recent crowdfunding conference. Below we offer an excerpt of the resulting feature, which focuses on women in finance and technology. “Thirty-two years after starting her career in London, Nicola Horlick is still often the only woman in the room. Although she notes that is not a […]
FT Adviser carries a report of welcome words from City minister Harriett Baldwin. Ms Baldwin has branded peer-to-peer lending a “brilliantly innovative new form of finance – which we want to see continue to grow and evolve.” “In a speech to the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) Ms Baldwin said peer-to-peer lending can plug the funding […]
Almost half of everyday investors would consider investing in peer-to-peer when the Innovative Finance ISA launches next April, reports the Western Morning News. The newspaper highlights industry research indicating “that the new ISA will expand the market by as much as a third (33 per cent) as investors seek to utilise the tax advantages available […]
Goncalo de Vasconcelos, founder of the equity platform, SyndicateRoom, is very much a friend of Money&Co. He spoke eleoquently at the Money&Co.-sponsored conference, Discovering The Power of the Crowd, in May (see him here in debate with the excellent Chris Siers). Goncalo has always been up front about the fact that there is no profit […]
Industry intelligence platform Crowdfundinsider reports a London & Partners survey of a booming UK FinTech market. FinTech, incidentally, is an umbrella term for financial services technology – which is exactly what bringing people and businesses together via an online platform (the Money&Co. business model) – is all about. “London & Partners, a non-profit entity funded […]