We’ve long argues that Fintech needs to be seen as a legitimate, investable asset by the likes of institutional investment and pension-fund managers. Following last week’s publication of the Kalifa report on FinTech there’s plenty of support for this argument. AltFi makes its own case here: To put it mildly, fintech companies haven’t struggled for […]
The answer is out there. The latest HMTC statistics show that of the £585 billion Individual Savings Account (ISA) market, cash ISAs are one the wane – with a capital flight of some 40 per cent from cash to other investment classes. One of the best and most appropriate asset classes is the peer-to-peer (P2P) […]
The new Individual Savings Account (ISA) season promises to be particularly frenetic. Like it or not, there is such a thing as a season (and we actually don’t like it – see this earlier article that points out the benefits of early investment, especially for high-yielding assets). The season is essentially a whirr of activity […]
The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sub-sector of crowdfunding seems to have many birthdays. Rarely can a sector have been hailed as “coming of age” quite so often. The latest to announce P2P’s coming of age as an alternative asset class is the Financial Times. Here are some excerpts from Helen Dunkley’s piece in the FT this […]
Repetition can be a rhetorical device of great effect. Mostly, it’s just dull – the sound of not very bright people agreeing with themselves (It is. It is. It is.). So hats off to Phil Geraghty of Crowdfunder, Darren Westlake of Crowdcube and Money&Co.’s CEO, Nicola Horlick, (see opiucture, above) who spoke at length and very […]