Tag Archives: banks

Crowd Booms, But Banks Lack Appeal

| June 17, 2014

Interesting times for alternative finance. After the recently reported failure of YES-secure, The Observer reports that “the phenomenon of crowdfunding is booming. You can stake from just £10 to emulate the likes of Duncan Bannatyne by becoming a “mini-dragon”, backing an ever-expanding range of ventures from theatre productions to electronic gizmos.” The same article goes […]

Banks’ Days Are Numbered

| May 25, 2014

Businesswoman Samantha Acton, proprietor of the Southbourne-based Domestic Angels network, has certainly got the alternative-finance message. Ms Acton, speaking to the award-winning local newspaper, The Daily Echo, criticises what she styles “the obsession” with getting banks to lend to small businesses again. “A good entrepreneur will seek and secure investment from alternative sources as the […]