Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, has written a tasty little article for accountants and consutants BDO’s just-published report on the food sector. We believe that alternative finance providers such as Money&Co. are destined to become – please forgive us – the big cheeses in the sector. Here is Nicola’s article: While quoted and larger corporates can raise […]
Not only is the remarkable performance of the UK’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMes) largely unrecognised, it’s a minor miracle that UK SMEs – the engine of the current recovery – are doing as well as they are, argues Nicola Horlick, CEO of Money&Co., in her latest blog in the Huffington Post. Nicola says that […]
Tax returns are long done and dusted, and mow many people are looking to review their pensions and New Individual Savings Accounts (NISAs). A recent report in The Observer, with three vividly realised case studies, demonstrates the financial realties that the reforms will bring to individuals: realising the pension pot will mean a holiday, a […]
The recent Cambridge University and EY report, benchmarking alternative finance across Europe, has had us all at Money&Co. looking in greater detail at the crowdfunding scene abroad. We found some excellent commentary, and a witty graphic, from our friends across the Channel in France. This article [in French] makes several sound points. The most important, […]
The fallout from the recent “Moving Mainstream”survey by Cambridge Judge Business School and EY continues. CityA.M., the leading financial media outlet, runs a series of articles on crowdfunding today. One is penned by Andy Baldwin, the global financial services chair at EY, who notes the strong crowdfunding growth in Europe, with the UK leading the […]
A recent article in the Financial Times spurred our interest. It also reminded us that while we are part of the fast-growing alternative-finance sector known as crowdfunding, what we do at Money&Co. is very different from the equity-raise, property-backed, and other sub-sctors of crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is simply the process of raising money – “funds” – […]
Our friends at crowdfunding intelligence platform Nurture Money have been dipping a toe into the waters of social media – and come up with some interesting results. “Each week and month, the number of people talking about crowdfunding is growing exponentially. Mainly thanks to Kickstarter and Indiegogo projects across the globe, but also due to […]
Names: that which we call a rose would smell as sweet, and all that has direct relevance to today’s fast-moving crowfunding market. “Here’s the conundrum. We know exactly what we do at Money&Co., but we can’t be quite so certain what we’re called,” writes our director of communications in the crowdfunding intelligence commentary vehicle, nurturemoney.com. “Yes, […]
Today a fast-growing sector demonstrates its teething troubles. Equity crowdfunding – a sub-sector of the industry that finds investment for young companies, often start-ups, and offers an equity stake (ie, direct investment in the company) – has taken a kicking from various media outlets. A prescient Investors’ Chronicle blog from the always engaging Stephen Wilmot […]
As the European Central Bank tries to avert deflation and attempts to promote growth in the Eurozone through its 1.1 billion euro programme of quantitative easing (QE), UK manufacturers face a difficult outlook. The effect of Europe’s troubles has been to push down the value of the euro and this has been reinforced by the […]