The following views are the personal opinions of Martin Baker, Money&Co’s head of communications and content. They do not necessarily represent the views of Money&Co. Here’s hoping you all had an excellent Christmas. 2015 certainly promises to be an exciting year for us all at Money&Co. Below I set out just some of the […]
Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick, pictured above, has kicked us all out of the office in the name of festivities. But festive torpor notwithstanding, there’s a snippet of real news this Christmas time. It offers an opportunity for readers, users, borrowers and lenders to take stock of where they are. The Telegraph reports the arrival of […]
Here’s another interesting end-of-year opinion piece, carried by the media outlet, Financial Reporter. The writer offers evidence to support his view that new businesses are being created at record levels. It’s certainly true to say that funding is needed to fuel growth. Remember, as a lender you can fuel that growth on this platform – […]
The Financial Times is the latest to report that peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is going “mainstream”. Money&Co.’s mission for 2015 is to keep doing what we’re doing – bringing people and businesses together to provide excellent returns for lenders and growth capital for borrowers. P2P business lending, reports the FT (subscription required), “is one of the key […]
It’s the time of year when punters – and punters’ opinions – proliferate. That’s partly because there’s a shortage of news, and partly, in some cases one suspects, because there’s been some old-school, Fleet Street pint-related punditry. This, despite the fact that alcohol and keyboards do not mix. We’ll be offering our own sober, considered […]
Following rapidly in the slipstream of the high-profile initial public offering (IPO) of Lending Club last week, this week saw the IPO of OnDeck Capital. OnDeck, which, Like Lending Club, is positioned as a P2P lender, raised $200 million. “A wealth of non-traditional alternatives have popped up online over the last eight years,” reports CNN […]
There are signs, early ones as yet, that the young sub-sector of crowdfunding inhabited by Money&Co. is growing up. Once upon a time, crowdfunding was a vaguely trendy, catch-all term for anything from start-ups seeking equity investment, to group property investment, to a charity raise and beyond. One fellow in the United States sought money from […]
The government’s programmes to help lending to businesses, especially the small and medium-sized businesses to which Money&Co. facilitates loans, are going to reach just 25 per cent of their lending targets, according to a report in the Independent. “Vince Cable’s Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) forecast in March that the British Business Bank, […]
The remarkable march of Money&Co.’s peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending sector continues. The message is simple: we bring people together with business to provide excellent returns for lenders and much-needed capital for borrowing companies. And that message is spreading fast. Yesterday, we wrote about the possibility of Money&Co.’s producing a tax-free offering that would yield around […]
Imagine this. It’s not a pie-in-the-sky dream, but a realistic possibility: a tax-free income product with a yield of over 7 per cent. That’s the kind of offering we hope to be able to make if the UK government acts on its avowed intention to include loans like Money&Co.’s (peer-to-peer [P2P] business loans) in New […]