Home Truth time. Spreading investment across asset classes and within asset classes helps to reduce investment risk. At Money&Co. we have a bespoke portfolio service that does just that – for investors with £100,000 or more to commit to the loan offers on site.Here’s a reminder of what’s on offer. Diversification in your loan portfolio […]
Pushing against an open door is all very well. What happens if the room behind the open door is empty? This is a topic of considerable interest to us here at Money&Co., as we pursue more traditional methods of entry into the banking system. Our friends at Finextra offer a couple of reports – one […]
Today’s news-gathering brings tidings of tales that vary from measured prudence to something from across the Pond that looks rather like irrational exuberance. P2P Finance News reports: The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new chief executive Nikhil Rathi has said that the regulator will be focusing on the risks involved with higher-return investments, as he […]
It may not be the coming thing, but it is a thing that is certainly coming. Central banks around the world are set to launch their own digital currencies. In 2018, the preparation was done for a “Britcoin” launched by the Bank of England. The product is wrapped up in metaphorical cling film, and ready […]
Today, as the world hopes for the arrival of a truly effective Covid-19 vaccine, we bring two snippets of news. First, is more from the stop-go world of SME finance. UK Tech News reports: British Business Investments, a Sheffield-based investment management firm, recently announced a £30 million commitment to support UK small businesses through Funding […]
The redoubtable Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge is spearheading a “pioneering move to accelerate technology enabled financial innovation and knowledge sharing in huge and previously underserved territories”, according to a report from Business Weekly. We run an excerpt from the piece below. The new collaboration will inform FinTech market development and regulatory […]
Regular readers will be aware that we monitor the progress – or otherwise – of major players in our own direct-lending sub-sector of FinTech. We offer the following extended excerpt of a news report from our friends at AltFi without further comment. Samir Desai, CEO and founder of listed lender Funding Circle, has purchased over 163,000 shares in the […]
Mainstream investors are of course paying more and more attention to FinTech opportunities. As part of the continuing theme we offer an extract from entirely uncontroversial opinion piece in AltFi that cites classics, such as “exit routes” as being desirable. Home truths… Research from Innovate Finance shows that investment in UK fintech dropped by 39% in the […]
Amid all the dark prognostications surrounding Covid-19, the news surrounding the FinTech sector is relatively good. Certainly, for cloud-based businesses such as Money&Co., it’s been relatively easy to find a new way of working. Our friends at UK TechNews report on a different way of doing business in the sector: The “new normal” is a […]
Cynics might file this one under: “Believe it when I see it.” This latest governmental initiative might work, but we expect more of the same – FinTech acquisitions by mainstream banks when they like the look of the asset prices. Finextra carries the story: Some of the UK’s biggest banks have signed a government-backed pledge […]