A new report from consultants, Accenture, shows explosive growth in the financial technology (FinTech) sector. Accenture believes that a “digital revolution in financial services is under way”. Money&Co., as a peer-to-peer business lender in the crowdfunding sector, is right at the heart of this movement. Fintech Innovation Lab London carries the report: “Investment in financial-technology (fintech) […]
The excitement is mounting at Bruton Place as the countdown to the closure of our latest loan auction gets underway. Olsen Doors & Windows is attracting a host of bids – and has pulled in more than five per cent of its £250,00 target today. This B-rated four-year loan has a gross indicative yield of […]
It may seem complacent, but we always knew we were in a good place at Money&Co. Bringing people and businesses together in peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending is a central part of the burgeoning alternative finance industry. And according to recent article in Bridging and Finance, “the rise and growth of the UK’s alternative finance industry […]
The word spreads. Thanks to our friends at invezz.com for an enlightened article on investment choice. “For investors looking for something a little alternative, debt crowdfunding could be considered an ideal path,” writes the news platform. “A report compiled and released by Cambridge University and Nesta last year estimated that alternative finance providers made a […]
Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, has written a tasty little article for accountants and consutants BDO’s just-published report on the food sector. We believe that alternative finance providers such as Money&Co. are destined to become – please forgive us – the big cheeses in the sector. Here is Nicola’s article: While quoted and larger corporates can raise […]
Not only is the remarkable performance of the UK’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMes) largely unrecognised, it’s a minor miracle that UK SMEs – the engine of the current recovery – are doing as well as they are, argues Nicola Horlick, CEO of Money&Co., in her latest blog in the Huffington Post. Nicola says that […]
The AltFi newspaper and media website has set up the Liberum AltFi Returns Index (LARI), a peer-to-peer (P2P) benchmark of loan yields. LARI “is designed to measure the returns generated from marketplace lending,” reports AltFI. “Index values are time-weighted, published as aggregate annualised returns, measuring what an equal time-weighted exposure to every loan made would […]
The reverberations of the pan-European report on alternative finance, co-authored by Cambridge Judge Business School, part of Cambridge University, and EY, the global consulting and accountancy organisation, are only just being felt. The report has been well-received across Europe, with extensive press coverage in the FT, Bloomberg, Le Monde, Les Echos, FD and Der Spiegel […]
Today sees the publication of the promised report on the European market for online alternative finance. A number of media outlets carry news of the report, including the Financial Times (subscription required). The FT faithfully records the report’s findings that the market grew by 144 per cent last year to almost Euros 3 billion, and […]
Our research trip to Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, and interview with leading crowdfund academic Bryan Zhang Zheng revealed some exciting information, although much of it is embargoed for Monday. “Alternative finance, with crowdfunding a big part of it, is expanding and developing, and transparency is key to this,” said Bryan. “It is opening up […]