Mixing business and pleasure in Birmingham – book for next week! We’re not only bringing people together with businesses, we’re bringing people together with drinks and canapes! As part of Money&Co.’s autumn road show, we’re delighted to announce a link up with one of the UK’s very best finance-personnel companies. Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, will […]
M&C’s Rachel Green – all set to hit the road Money&Co. is all about bringing people and businesses together. To this end, a senior team, headed by CEO Nicola Horlick and head of business development, Rachel Green, is hitting the road in the final third of the year. The aim is to bring our business […]
Mar-Key indicative loan yield is currently running at eight per cent There is a whole series of new loan offerings waiting to come on site – and just 21 days to go before the scheduled close of the currently available Mar-Key Group auction. This A-rated company manufactures and installs large-structure marquees for major events, weddings […]
P2P finance is on the up – thankfully for SMEs The UK’s peer-to-peer (P2P) finance sector continues to expand – at an even faster rate than previously thought. According to market data published by Alternative Finance (Alt Fi), a media outlet that monitors alternative finance sectors, including crowdfunding, cumulative lending has doubled since last December. […]
Hold off a bit there, will you…? Nicola Horlick, CEO of Money&Co., believes that the much-signalled rise in interest rates is being shunted further and further back, and may even be postponed indefinitely. Writing in her latest blog, she explains: “Earlier this year, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, was indicating that interest […]
A timely, trenchant book, published by Random House “Bad Banks: Greed, Incompetence and the Next Global Crisis” is well-written, well-argued and well-timed. Daily Mail City editor Alex Brummer pulls no punches as to how the UK’s banks have failed and continue to fail us all in abysmal fashion. Here, he sums up Barclays Bank’s recent conduct: […]
The banks are nothing if not consistent – the systematic failure to support small business continues New research reveals that 59 per cent of start-ups have been rejected for a bank loan to start their business, according to a report from business media outlet, startups.co.uk. The study on which the report is based was undertaken […]
Show them the money! Investors are victims of the banks’ Great Savings Robbery Recent reports in the media and on this site that half a million savers at Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest will see their interest rates cut by the end of the year as part of what banks are describing as a […]
The gap between bank deposit rates and loan returns has got even wider The UK’s banks get a real roasting in the latest blog by Nicola Horlick, Money&Co.’s CEO. The numbers tell their own story. As banks ruthlessly cut savings rates, as highlighted in recent reports in the media and on this site, the gap between […]
Confessions in October – sounds like fun! No-one’s perfect. While we’re very excited by the way things are roaring along at Money&Co., there are one or two matters we might have dealt with differently, given the benefit of 20-20 hindsight. That’s what happens with start-ups, where the one thing you can predict with total certainty […]