It was only a matter of time… We’re talking about the developments at Zopa, the UK’s oldest peer-to-peer lender. The relationship between the mainstream and alternative finance sectors is a dynamic one – some might even call it fractious. Here’s the news, via our friends at The Financial Times. You may need a subscription to read the […]
Today is our last offering on the important, newly published academic report Financial innovation today: Towards economic resilience. The report concerns alternative finance, including crowdfunding, community shares and peer-to-peer lending, and is authored by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight from the Bauman Institute in Leeds. It addresses an issue dear to our hearts here at […]
Today we offer more reaction to the newly published academic report Financial innovation today: Towards economic resilience. The report concerns alternative finance, including crowdfunding, community shares and peer-to-peer lending, and is authored by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight from the Bauman Institute in Leeds. One of the appealing aspects of the report is the authors’ […]
Today we continue with a further report on the newly published academic report Financial innovation today: Towards economic resilience. The report concerns alternative finance, including crowdfunding, community shares and peer-to-peer lending, and is authored by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight from the Bauman Institute in Leeds. One of the issues examined is the “democratisation” of […]
A new report on alternative finance, including crowdfunding, community shares and peer-to-peer lending is attracting widespread interest in the media and elsewhere. Financial innovation today: Towards economic resilience is authored by Mark Davis and Tim Braunholtz-Speight from the Bauman Institute in Leeds. It examines a number of issues around what is termed the decentralisation of […]