Today we bring you two world views. The first is from Robert Reoch of Crowdnetic. Speaking at the recent Alternative Finance: News Solution To Old Problems, Robert offers an extremely perceptive view of the ever-changing and fast-moving currents of alternative finance. Please forgive the sound quality – there was an intermittent problem in the sound […]
Here’s another excerpt from the recent, wide-ranging afternoon debate at the London conference, Alternative Finance: New Solutions To Old Problems. The event was sponsored by Cubism Law and a host of leading players in the alternative finance sector, including Money&Co., equity platform VentureFounders, P2P platform Archover, data gatherers Crowdnetic, British Influence, and crowdfunding intelligence platform, […]
Start-ups and small businesses need finance to thrive. James Codling, co-founder of equity crowdfunding platform, VentureFounders, explains his own and his company’s approach to finding the best funding route. See the link below. James knows a thing or two about start-ups, having founded his own winery in South America, where he turned barren land into […]
Monday’s Alternative Funding – News Solutions To Old Problems conference concluded with a panel discussion chaired by Ed Bowsher of Share Radio. After a day of extremely interesting and incisive presentations (invariably followed by question-and-answer sessions) Ed chaired a panel session that reprised the major issues and points of debate over the course of the […]
We’re delighted to report that mainstream media appear to be waking up to the increasing importance of alternative finance, with crowdfunding at its heart. Rebecca Burn-Callander writes in The Telegraph: “Keith Morgan, chief executive of the government-owned and run British Business Bank, makes the bold statement that his organisation is behind the rise of one […]
Consulting firm McKinsey has warned banks that FinTech start-ups are a threat to traditional banking’s profits, giving them a choice: fight them or join them, according to a recent report from CityA.M. “London’s fintech hubs are booming, with over 12,000 start-ups disrupting financial services with products that are often cheaper for customers. This poses a […]
Alternative finance, with crowdfunding at its heart, offers a new form of resolving old dilemmas. The service that we provide is, in many ways, just like a credit union, a venerable form of providing liquidity for businesses and returns for lenders that’s been around for centuries. At Money&Co., we bring people together with businesses to […]
We offer a couple of worthwhile third-party observations today – one longer, one shorter. James Wise of Balderton Capital blogs in CityA.M. on the diversity of the crowd in crowdfunding. “The investors on crowdfunding platforms are much more diverse and representative of society in toto than the bank clerks of yesteryear, and as a result […]
Meteor? What meteor? Just when we were beginning to think that all those comparisons between bankers and dinosaurs might be a little overdone… The Memo, a US intelligence platform, runs a story pegged to the launch of a new book – Bye Bye Banks? The copy and attached table make for a shocking read – even […]
“Asset classes traditionally financed by banks or big institutions, and previously deemed too long-term, illiquid or risky for retail investors, are now being packaged up as listed funds and traded on stock markets, where portfolio managers can buy them – leading to their possible presence in your Isa or self-invested personal pension (SIPP)),” writes Judith […]