Monthly Archives: July 2016

Alternative Financing Awareness

Money&Co.’s latest loan offering closes today at 17:00. This A-rated, three-year loan of over £121,000 is being sought by an independent adviser looking to use the funds to expand. At the time of writing the offering has a current average gross yield of 8.4 per cent.  Meanwhile, as providers of alternative finance in the form […]

Latest Auction Closing Soon

Money&Co.’s latest loan offering closes tomorrow at 17:00. This A-rated, three-year loan of over £121,000 is being sought by an independent adviser looking to use the funds to expand. At the time of writing the offering has a current average gross yield of 8.5 per cent. How auctions work The offer is 100 per cent […]

Hot Coffee, Sharp Knives, And Good Returns

Today, we offer an opinion piece from crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, with which Money&Co., has a close association, including the co-sponsorship of two alternative finance conferences (with another one coming up in November). We live in a world where lawyers write labels, because manufacturers are afraid of litigation. So we have to be told […]

P2P Lending – Our Top Tips

As our latest loan offering moves to close, we offer some tips – things lenders would do well to consider. This is not advice, merely commentary, and a counsel of caution. While we are passionate about bringing individuals looking to lend for a good return together with carefully vetted businesses seeking funds to expand, it’s very […]

Brexit: Hope, Fear But No Clarity – Plus Loan Latest

Today, we offer a tale from crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, with which Money&Co., has a close association, including the co-sponsorship of two alternative finance conferences (with another one coming up in November). “The results are in from the first survey of UK startup’s attitudes to Brexit. We could cherry-pick some statistics and tell you […]

Man Or Machine In P2P? You Decide…

Generalist platform Crowd2Fund has launched a robot-driven portfolio investment service, according to our friends at Crowdfundinsider. Crowd2Fund has “a new intelligent investment feature known as Smart-Invest, which will reportedly allow investors to automate their crowdlending investments. “The UK peer-to-peer lending platform stated: ‘The Smart-Invest feature is the culmination of research into Artificial Intelligence and consultation with leading […]

P2P To Look Carefully At The Future

Governance is crucial to the future of the P2P sector, says the commentary sector of iii.co.uk, a long-established dealing platform. “While the P2P industry has some growing pains, which need to be addressed, Turner’s sweeping statement fails to take into account the huge variety of providers and their diverse approaches to security and transparency and, […]

Crowdfunding: Why Size, Security And Regulation Matter

Professor Robert Wardrop and Tania Ziegler of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School offer an engaging and comprehensive review of where they believe crowdfunding in Europe is going, particularly in the light of the FCA’s review of UK Crowdfunding. The article is too long to reproduce in full here. Crowdfundinsder carries the full piece. Below, we […]