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 […]
One way of challenging banking norms – an increasingly popular activity nowadays – is to offer cashback. Assuming cash remains popular, which is probable in the short term, this new development, reported by our friends at Crowdfundinsider, could have quite a radical effect across the alternative-finance sector: Upside Saving, a UK-based open-banking-marketing-platform connects Brands with […]
And so it has come to pass. We’ve long kept a weather eye on the difficult journey of Lending Club, the leading direct lender in the US FinTech sector, since its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2014. We’ve reported several times in News and in our Blog section. Now, Lending Club […]
The investment maxim is to buy at the sound of the cannon, and sell when the violins at the post-battle ball begin to play. It’ difficult to think of a noisier cannon sound than the all-pervasive pandemic, the likelihood of a brutally hard Brexit, and a nasty winter. So let’s see the news of technology […]
The resurgence of the Covid-19 virus is causing mayhem on all fronts. The hotch-potch of government-backed schemes to aid small business – lots of different ideas distributed in a rather haphazard way – is right back with us. Or maybe there’s more order and sense to all this than first appears. You decide. Meanwhile, here’s […]
The Federation of Small Businesses lobbies, quite reasonably, ahead of the next Budget. We’ll stop bringing you downbeat news, as soon as there’s good news to report – and that’s a promise. Meanwhile, here’s the latest “Winter Is Coming” piece from the mainstream media, via our friends at Crowdfundinsider. The next or upcoming UK Budget […]
The stories are yet to be told. But the critics who argue that the government’s strategy for the Covid-19 crisis consists of throwing money at things may have a field day with this news report from our friends at Crowdfundinsider. We’ll keep monitoring the situation. Meanwhile, here’s an excerpt from the tale: Emergency COVID-19 funding […]
The dust thrown up by the Covid-19 virus hasn’t even begun to settle yet. Our friends at Crowdfundinsider report on a new platform set up to facilitate funding for companies that don’t qualify for the various government relief schemes. This is a separate issue from the scramble among altfi platforms to qualify for distributor status. […]
We are currently living in a period of many initiatives and ideas, but few executed plans – and even fewer observable outcomes. The latest hope for dealing with the financial blight caused by Coroanvirus is a two trillion-euro ($2.2 trillion) plan for economic recovery, as floated by the European Commission, ahead of leaders’ talks on […]
Virus or no virus, cryptocurrencies are still with us. Mind you, in this emerging asset class you really have to pick your crypto. Scams must be avoided. Crowdfundinsider has news on the OneCoin saga (fans of “The Missing Crypto Queen” podcast will not be surprised at this development). Judge Valerie Caproni has lifted the stay on a […]