Today we share Business Insider’s report on the disruption caused by FinTech – the broad sector, of which Money&Co.’s peer-to-peer lending operations form a key part. “Fintech – or financial technology – is one of the hottest areas of technology right now, with money pouring into the sector, startups springing up all over the place, […]
We recently brought you news of the £20 billion of economic loss caused by small and medium-sized enterprises’ lack of awareness of alternative funding sources. The picture only gets bleaker. Ryan Weeks, the editor of AltFi, reports on a survey by Intelligent Partnership, which reveals “an endemic lack of awareness about the alternative finance space […]
Harriet Green is becoming a leading writer on crowdfunding in the UK. She hosted a session of Money&Co.’s May conference, Discovering the Power of the Crowd, and made telling contributions on the panel at the October Alternative Finance: New Solutions to Old Problems, co-sponosred by Money&Co. and Cubism law. See the hour-long panel discussion – […]
Today, in anticipation of the latest new loan offering (coming to this site very soon) we offer excerpts two articles from today’s media output. It is an exercise in comparison and contrast. The Old “Since the September announcement that National Savings & Investments (NS&I) would be dropping its Direct Isa rate to just 1.25pc, few […]
Thanks to our friends at This Is Money, the online arm of the Mail newspapers, for this article on the wit and wisdom (well, we would say that wouldn’t we?) of our CEO, Nicola Horlick. “In the first of our Start-Up Secrets series, multi-talented entrepreneur and investment veteran Nicola Horlick reveals who inspired her the […]
Money&Co. went north last week. And a very enjoyable and worthwhile trip it was too. Pictured at a business breakfast attended by over 100 people are (from left to right) CEO of Manchester City Council, Sir Howard Bernstein, local businessman and event host, Steve Bennett of Transition Plus, and Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick. They are […]
Greetings from Manchester, where Money&Co. has been making its presence felt at a dinner and subsequent breakfast attended by 100 entrepreneurs and small-business owners. Both events were convivial and useful. Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick spoke at each meeting: “There’s a real desire to do business and to get funding to do business in Manchester and […]
SME Insider is almost always an engaging read. This week it carries a mini-profile of small-business owner Oliver Southern, a London-based entrepreneur who started his career at one of the world’s biggest technology companies. Oliver is the force behind Chored, an app for house shares. “It lets users split and pay bills (including rent and […]
How do you assess risk? Without reliable information, known in industry jargon as good data sets, the task is hopeless. There’s a growing trend in crowdfunding to look at information that is other than financial, partly as a predictor of borrower behaviour. Focusing on data other than the financial is obviously helpful in providing a […]
Our friends at Money Week and Alt Fi are running a series on mutual funds invested in peer-to-peer (P2P) loans. This is the first, and deals with performance, mandates, discount/surplus to NAV in some detail. “Using numbers from investment trust analysts at Numis, we can clearly see from the various detailed tables below that […]