Goncalo de Vasconcelos, founder of the equity platform, SyndicateRoom, is very much a friend of Money&Co. He spoke eleoquently at the Money&Co.-sponsored conference, Discovering The Power of the Crowd, in May (see him here in debate with the excellent Chris Siers). Goncalo has always been up front about the fact that there is no profit […]
CityA.M..’s Harriet Green, a leading journalist in crowdfunding and a moderator at next Monday’s Money&Co. co-sponsored conference, reports on a very welcome move – one that moves our “alternative” sector yet further into the mainstream. “City investors are getting an exchange to trade crowdfunded investments, as the UK’s first crowdfunding marketplace launches today. “Crowdfunding platform Crowd2Fund […]
Harriet Green of CityA.M. offers a consumer guide choosing a good crowdfunded loan. The article features some trenchant and very sensible commentary from independent alternative finance analyst, AllStreet. “First and foremost, take a serious look at how a platform handles a loan, says Emanuela Vartolomei, founder and chief executive of All Street, the independent alternative […]
Just to remind you, as peer-to-peer (P2P) crowdfunders bringing people and businesses together, we are a FinTech business – that is, a financial technology business. Christine Farnish of the P2P Finance Association, an industry body that represents some of the older players in the P2P sector, writes in CityA.M. on an innovative P2P-focused app from […]
We offer a couple of worthwhile third-party observations today – one longer, one shorter. James Wise of Balderton Capital blogs in CityA.M. on the diversity of the crowd in crowdfunding. “The investors on crowdfunding platforms are much more diverse and representative of society in toto than the bank clerks of yesteryear, and as a result […]
CityA.M. runs a column visiting the Money&Co. space… “WHEN we look back, 2015-16 will be seen as the watershed moment: when peer-to-peer (P2P) lending and crowdfunding made the big time, transitioning from quirky innovation to a respected alternative source of finance and investment opportunities. “The government has clearly been persuaded of the potential benefits of […]
CityA.M. today looks at our sector of the crowdfunding market. Harriet Green sets the context: “Alternative finance grew by 168 per cent in the UK last year, according to a report by Cambridge’s Judge Business School. While the oft-vaunted equity crowdfunding saw volumes totalling £83m in 2014, debt-based lending, via crowdfunding and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms, […]
Journalism “by list” is a reductive business. Nevertheless, here’s a list, courtesy of our friends at CityA.M. – all about the supposed influence of folk in the word of alternative finance. Money&Co.’s CEO Nicola Horlick features in the 20s – not bad, considering she scarcely bothers with Twitter at all… So here’s the recent CityA.M. […]
We leave it to our friends in the media, CityA.M., to comment on yesterday’s highly successful event, hosted by our director of communications, Martin Baker: “No wonder there was an enthusiastic crowd at City A.M.’s first crowdfunding conference, held in association with Another Crowd at the RAC yesterday. “The calibre of the speakers – who […]
Leading financial media organisation, City A.M., crowdfunding data benchmarker, CrowdneticUK, and alternative finance intelligence platform, Another Crowd, are pleased to announce the line-up for a ground-breaking conference on crowdfunding to be held at London’s Royal Automobile Club on 28th May. “The basic idea is to provide a high concentration of top-quality individuals and companies in […]