Forest Fuels makes premium grade fuels from wood chips and pellets We are delighted to announce the launch of the Forest Fuels loan auction on the Money&Co. website. Forest Fuels is seeking £275,000, over a 60-month term to fund long-term growth. The credit-analysis team has awarded the company a B+ rating, with an indicative gross […]
BCC criticises a system that’s not getting money to business The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), a business lobby group, this week said the recovery was “moving forward” but warned that “repairing our broken business finance system” was “a top priority”, according to a report from the BBC. “These results reinforce the case against the […]
Crowdfunding now takes cenre stage Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, harboured ambitions to be an actress, but three years as a student at Oxford turned her head, and a career in finance followed, reports Economia magazine in a recent profile of Nicola. Economia describes itself as “the member publication for ICAEW chartered accountants… essential technical accountancy […]
Engaging with a friendly crowd at the Wine Bear West Oxfordshire business folk gathered at the Wine Bear in Chipping Norton to hear Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick speak on funding for small business, the way banks have failed to cater for savers’ needs – and the potential solutions offered by crowdfunding. Savers, investors and owners […]
Your Business ezine got wind of Nicola Horlick’s latest speaking engagement, aimed at the financial community and the exciting, innovative world of alternative finance. The Money&Co. CEO was the keynote speaker at FD Solutions’ finance seminar on 26th June. Money & Co. recently announced its first £1 million crowdfunding loan secured on behalf of a client. […]
Online crowdfunding deal should get more, much-needed money to SMEs Columnist Anthony Hilton argues in the Evening Standard that a new deal between Santander and Funding Circle, an internet-based crowdfunding platform, has the potential to revolutionise lending to small and medium-sized companies in the UK. Hilton says that, although banks exist to lend to small business, they […]
Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick recently went to Cambridge, where she organised a dinner for leading academics and crowdfunding practitioners. Users will be reading more about and from them later on this site. Local newspaper business editor, Jenny Chapman, came to discuss the exciting developments in crowdfunding with Nicola the next day. Here’s a snippet from […]
Investment in British business, with heavy industry and manufacturing at the fore, is at its highest since 1998 The Oxford Dictionary defines the word “blog” as follows: “Noun – A personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites etc. on a regular basis.” This is my first blog, […]
The recently announced failure of a crowdfunding site, YES-secure, offers food for thought for all connected with the industry – individual lenders and investors, borrower businesses, regulators, and the crowdfunding platforms. The early indications are that lenders will not lose their money as a result of the YES-secure platform failure. Some might say this is […]
It’s official. The Financial Times is mindful of the funding gap clearly demonstrated by independent research commissioned by Money&Co. and published on this site. “The biggest bar to growth remains ignorance,” reports the FT. “Money & Co. commissioned a survey that claimed UK SMEs had an annual unmet need for finance of £4.3bn. The study, […]