Getting everything done at the touch of a button sounds like a great idea. But what about privacy? Our friends at P2P Finance News report a fine-looking initiative from the UK government, which is definitely a friend of the financial-technology (FinTech) sector. But the Treasury’s attempts to create a better environment for FinTech sound a […]
To quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” While the rest of the world gets on with interpreting everything in the light of the good (or bad) consequences of Brexit (if it ever happens), we can report that the digital economy and its FinTech sub-sector, of […]
Our friends at Off3r.com provide widely followed commentary on the alternative financial and financial technology (FinTech) scene. The platform recently caught up with our CEO, Nicola Horlick, who offered some insightful words on the future of alternative finance in general, FinTech in particular – and the helpful effect of mainstream finance’s indifference to funding small […]
The run up to the UK’s General Election in early June shows strong interest in the alternative finance and financial-technology (FinTech) sectors. Our friends at the Mortgage Finance Gazette report on the latest research from Livingstone, an international mid-market M&A and debt advisory firm, which “shows that the specialist lending market continued its post-referendum recovery […]
Cambridge-based Crowdsurfer analyses data in the alternative finance and financial technology (FinTech) sector. Its remit includes equity, bonds, SME debt, P2P and more, as it maps global trends and patterns in alternative finance. According to a recent Crowdsurfer announcement, “the P2P sector is one that continues to mature at speed, and its growth will be […]
Welcome back to our users and readers for the “summer term”, pre-election madness and all. In a world where very few (well, few politicians, at least) seem sure of their numbers, we offer some more reliable figures below: amount of loan facilitated, and average gross return achieved by Money&Co. lenders, for a start. On a […]
Today we continue our recent theme of awareness and trust in alternative finance and financial technology (aka, FinTech). HSBC, a mainstream bank,recently carried out a survey of over 12,000 consumers across 11 countries. P2P Finance News reports that “the global bank found that consumers are twice as likely to trust artificial intelligence to carry out heart surgery […]
We are heading towards the landmark of £10 million-worth of loans facilitated for carefully vetted small-business borrowers. As we do so, we take stock of both sides of the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending equation. The demand for a good return on capital amongst lenders is strong. As for borrowers, the desire for capital needed to fund […]
Financial technology is the future, of that there’s no doubt. We’ve often written that peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending is slowly entering the mainstream of the financial world. It seems that the mainstream media is catching up with this news. For a daily news briefing on our P2P sector, see the crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd […]
The Financial Times reports on a flourishing FinTech market – although the potential consequences of Brexit appear to be a concern. We run an extended excerpt below. You can subscribe here – quality journalism of the type offered by the FT is something we strongly recommend in a world where ”alternative facts” are bandied about. […]