Alan Mak MP announces a new all-party parliamentary group on entrepreneurship via Politics Home. We welcome the move – so long as it amounts to more than another talking shop. Mr Mak has a reputation as an able and effective politician. Let’s hope the new group genuinely helps to promote entrepreneurial culture in the UK. […]
Ryan Weeks, editor of AltFi and a leading journalist in the crowdfunding space, blogs in TechCrunch “in defence of P2P”. It’s excellent to hear a sane, measured voice amid the shrill – indeed, gleeful – hysteria that followed the Lending Club affair. An extended excerpt follows, with our grateful thanks to Ryan and TechCrunch. For […]
Sometimes it’s good to see the view from the outside as better way of seeing how we really are. Today, we run an extended excerpt from a thoughtful blog in Bob’s Guide. The argument runs that the UK government has made Britain a great place for FinTech in general – but that this favourable environment […]
Our friends at AltFi run an investment feature that argues P2P-invested funds are a buying opportunity in the wake of the Lending Club affair. The platform operates as a showcase for the opinions of Monica Tepes, director of investment company research at Cantor Fitzgerald. “Investors should treat the market turmoil surrounding the lending club […]