The onward march of crowdfunding continues. At Money&Co. we are pleased – and not a little surprised – to see crowdfunding highlighted in New Scientist magazine. The magazine’s recent headline, reproduced above, is already earmarked as one of 2015’s stand-out pieces of reporting on our sector. “The rise of a new kind of crowdfunding website […]
The week ahead starts today. Here’s a quick checklist of things you may want to consider over your Sunday-morning coffee and sticky buns, and in the days ahead. Getting An Excellent Return On Capital This is the last chance to lend to Yorkshire-based credit control company ARP. This loan has reached its funding target, but […]
If you want the bigger picture, an idea of the prime mover behind the Money&Co. business, check out this interview with Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, on the London Live television station. Only at the end does the interview touch on the mechanics of Money&Co.’s peer-to-peer business lending (see Home and Lend pages for the latest […]
Exciting news for ARP Enforcement Services. The fast-expanding Yorkshire-based debt-recovery company, headed up by Tony Pycroft (above), has raised 100 per cent of the £70,000 it’s looking to raise. “The business is growing rapidly and this loan is to ensure the business can cope with the growth and to further expand,” says Pycroft. To see […]
Crowdfunding is a serious business. But it’s not taken quite so seriously as it might be – or as it will be. That’s the essence of a fine piece of commentary by David Prosser in The Independent. The crowdfunding market and the language used to describe it has evolved rapidly, even in the eight months […]
The Mail on Sunday highlights Money&Co. in a recent report on the peer-to-peer lending sector of crowdfunding. The newspaper recently interviewed our CEO, Nicola Horlick, and says that she “recently entered the fray with her own platform, Money&Co, offering lenders from 6 to 10 per cent depending on a borrowing company’s risk rating. Her platform […]
The rip-roaring start to 2015 just got even better. And we have to say – cliche notwithstanding – that we’re over the moon about it. Money&Co. has seen a surge of interest from lenders – and we’re delighted to say that we have some truly exciting borrowing companies to match the liquidity. The pipeline of […]
The Financial Times reports (subscription required) that although the new year has hardly started, manufacturers are already expecting 2015 to be tough. The FT reports on falling confidence in the sector, partly because of diminshed expectations of the UK economy, with a significant downturn from the 70 per cent of manufacturers surveyed at the beginning […]
The working year starts in earnest for most people tomorrow. With it comes the usual mixture of blind optimism and dread pessimism. One of the most widely predicted events is that something will go bang – that there will be a failure in general crowdfunding, or in the peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending sector, which is […]
The new year begins with signs of the convergence of old and new in finance. The first crowdfunded real-estate venture has floated successfully on AIM, the UK’s secondary equity market. Real-estate backed crowdfunders are our distant cousins. At Money&Co. we bring people together with business. Individuals can get excellent returns on their capital, and borrowing […]