The Money&Co. team made it back to London from Birmaingham at the end of the week with good news to report. A series of meetings with local business people, lenders, media representatives and organisations such as the local chambers of commerce, ending with an event co-hosted by FD Solutions, yielded excellent results, according to […]
Lenders leaving our Bruton Place offices after coffee, croissants and credit analysis This week’s lenders’ breakfast at Money&Co.’s Mayfair offices was an engaged and engaging affair. The senior members of the Money&Co. team were all there. CEO Nicola Horlick gave a short talk about our business – using state-of-the-art technology to create funding for our […]
Vince Cable knows a bad deal when he sees one The second city is the centre of the Money&Co. universe today. A senior team of Money&Co. executives, led by CEO Nicola Horlick, is on a mission to spread the crowdfunding word in Birmingham. The message is simple: we bring people and businesses together. Individual savers […]
Check it out online – the figures tell their own story The Financial Times does not mince its words. It has just published an article on the banking sector with the doom-laden caption: “Margins, profits and dividends will never fully recover.” The newspaper’s FTMoney editor, Jonathan Eley is in no doubt about the future for […]
Business development has something up its sleeve… Money&Co.’s head of business development, Rachel Green, is a key member of a team that’s hitting the road this autumn. The weeks ahead promise a long series of breakfasts, lunches, and media meetings as Money&Co. raises awareness of what crowdfunding has to offer businesses and lenders alike all […]
Mar-Key indicative loan yield is currently running at eight per cent There is a whole series of new loan offerings waiting to come on site – and just 21 days to go before the scheduled close of the currently available Mar-Key Group auction. This A-rated company manufactures and installs large-structure marquees for major events, weddings […]
Hold off a bit there, will you…? Nicola Horlick, CEO of Money&Co., believes that the much-signalled rise in interest rates is being shunted further and further back, and may even be postponed indefinitely. Writing in her latest blog, she explains: “Earlier this year, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, was indicating that interest […]
Billions are being wasted – but where will interest rates go? Savers with banks and building societies have had a terrible time of it over the past few months. As reported in various media outlets and on this site, investment yields are at a very low point, and “simplifications” mean that hundreds of thousands of […]
Show them the money! Investors are victims of the banks’ Great Savings Robbery Recent reports in the media and on this site that half a million savers at Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest will see their interest rates cut by the end of the year as part of what banks are describing as a […]
The gap between bank deposit rates and loan returns has got even wider The UK’s banks get a real roasting in the latest blog by Nicola Horlick, Money&Co.’s CEO. The numbers tell their own story. As banks ruthlessly cut savings rates, as highlighted in recent reports in the media and on this site, the gap between […]