David Prosser reports in Forbes on alternative finance’s impressive 2015 figures. David, who profiled Money&Co.’s CEO, Nicola Horlick last year, has had sight of the first of five reports being published by the Cambridge Judge Business School. Crowdfundinsider has also got wind of the figures. An extended excerpt from the Forbes article is reproduced here. […]
Crowdfundinsider reports on the latest Federation of Small Businesses figures. At Money&Co., we certainly share the writer’s point of view: “In the UK, similar to other parts of the world, SMEs are the engine of economic growth and associated job and wealth creation. According to the Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses (FSB); Small businesses account for […]
The end of the year is prediction time. Some of the more engaging come from BondMason, a P2P intermediary platform, which reports doubled P2P lending to £2.3 billion on 2015. The platform, as reported by Crowdfundinsider, also predicts: The industry will grow by another £1-1.5 billion There will be increased P2P Platform consolidation and exits The Innovative […]
Crowdfundinsider caught up with Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, at a recent crowdfunding conference. Below we offer an excerpt of the resulting feature, which focuses on women in finance and technology. “Thirty-two years after starting her career in London, Nicola Horlick is still often the only woman in the room. Although she notes that is not a […]
Industry intelligence platform Crowdfundinsider reports a London & Partners survey of a booming UK FinTech market. FinTech, incidentally, is an umbrella term for financial services technology – which is exactly what bringing people and businesses together via an online platform (the Money&Co. business model) – is all about. “London & Partners, a non-profit entity funded […]
They are the crowd – and they’re generating far better rates for themselves than the banks are Crowdfunding is the spirit of the moment – and the future. No need to take our word for it: Just read this, written by our friends at crowdfundinsider.com. “Peer to peer lending is all the rage these days […]
Crowdfundinsider, a leading crowdfund intelligence platform, interviewed Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick recently. The result was a wide-ranging feature about Nicola’s business interests in the crowdfunding sector. Here Nicola speaks about Money&Co. Her views on the impact of EU regulation on business funding for small and medium-sized companies are particularly trenchant: “Crowdfunding is the future […]
You’re a borrower? They’re talking to you… John Authers argues in the Financial Times (subscription required) that the long-lasting victim of the banking crisis of 2008 could be the banks themselves: “At a retail level, there is the growth in “crowdfunding” or peer-to-peer services. “Spurred by public distrust for conventional banks, and aided by ever stronger […]
Equity crowdfunding volume is growing and growing The flip side of the crowdfunding coin from loan funding – the kind that Money&Co. does, always taking a charge on borrower assets – is equity funding. When money is committed to equity funding, there’s quite often no income in the early stages (or at all), but the […]