Crowdfunding is such a young industry that the names for the things we do aren’t properly established. A common mistake is to confuse equity raises for the whole of crowdfunding. At Money&Co., we bring businesses together with people, via our high-tech platform. Lenders can get excellent returns on capital, and businesses receive the money they […]
Insider Media reports on an innovative regional project, as equity crowdfunder Seedrs seesk to spread the word to the regions. “Crowdfunding platform Seedrs and Newport-based Impact Innovation will partner with the Welsh Government on a new £20m, six-year business support programme aimed at high growth companies,” reports IM. “The Accelerated Growth Programme (AGP) is backed […]
This Is Money, the personal finance platform, runs an interesting piece on what it calls the person-to-person marketplace, which it anticipates will be worth £230 billion in a decade. This general article is well worth a read. It looks at the way technology allows us all to be better connected, and examines the economic efficiencies […]
What’s the working definition of a banking consultant? The answer’s simple, according to Justin Urqhart Stewart of Seven Investment Management – a banking consultant is a banker who just happens to be unemployed! Justin kicked off the recent Discovering The Power Of The Crowd conference, which Money&Co. co-sponsored, along with CityA.M., Another Crowd, Archover, Crowdnetic […]
The explosive growth of the UK crowdfunding industry is hugely exciting. But on the flipside of the exciting opportunities the industry’s players – and its regulators – face some pretty serious challenges. Today, we look at the regulation of our young sector. The news, broadly speaking, is – so far – very good. JD Alois […]
We’re not saying everybody loves us, but lots of people love the space we occupy. At Money&Co., we bring people together with businesses, so that lenders can get good returns on their capital, and borrowing companies can acquire the loan capital they need to grow. We’ve facilitated over £6 million in loans since activating the platform […]
James Codling, co-founder of equity platform Venture Funders (one of the sponsors of last week’s Discovering The Power Of The Crowd conference), says in The Director magazine that peer-to-peer business lending (P2P) is at the forefront of expansion in the UK. James is an entrepreneur as well as an experienced venture capitalist. He has grown […]
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 […]
It’s not just us, you know. Trade journal, paymnts.com, is sharply critical of the new banks challenging the financial establishment: ” The U.K. is dominated by the so-called Big Five mainstream banks: Lloyds, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Santander UK and HSBC. With their decline in SME lending following the financial crisis, the U.K. saw […]
We’ve reported several times in this news section on the risk of losing the crowd in crowdfunding. By that, we mean the risk that platforms might favour big lenders – be they high-net-worth individuals or institutions – at the expense of the smaller lender with a few hundred or thousand pounds to commit. Judith Evans […]