The redoubtable Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge is spearheading a “pioneering move to accelerate technology enabled financial innovation and knowledge sharing in huge and previously underserved territories”, according to a report from Business Weekly. We run an excerpt from the piece below. The new collaboration will inform FinTech market development and regulatory […]
Regular readers will be aware that the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), part of the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, is a friend of Money&Co. Here’s just one of our recent reports on an institution we consider the leading source of data and analysis in the alternative finance industry. The CCAF has published the single most […]
The alternative finance sector has a long-standing duty to raise awareness and understanding of what it does. It’s more than simple marketing – it’s a mission to enlighten, to get across the simple message that banks are not the only answer to financial problems. So it’s with some pleasure that we report the launch of […]
There’s good news and bad news for the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending sector ahead of Christmas. The good news is that the publication of a major Cambridge Judge Business School survey of the sector (in which Money&Co. operates) is on time, and will occur ahead of the festive season. The bad news is that the Financial […]
Today, we take a look across the Atlantic at our American cousins. Money&Co. has close links with the staff of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Alternative Finance, part of the university’s Judge Business School. The Centre has just published its latest research report on the state of alternative finance in the Americas, approximately one […]
Professor Robert Wardrop and Tania Ziegler of Cambridge University’s Judge Business School offer an engaging and comprehensive review of where they believe crowdfunding in Europe is going, particularly in the light of the FCA’s review of UK Crowdfunding. The article is too long to reproduce in full here. Crowdfundinsder carries the full piece. Below, we […]
Harriet Green in CityA.M. takes a look at the possible evolution of peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. Will P2P stay as the simple idea of bringing individuals seeking good returns on their loans together with small businesses seeking funds (which is our model)? Or will it evolve into a form of banking or fund management? Below we […]
Today, as we experience a surge in demand for our latest loan offering, we reprise a tale from the crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, a company with which we have co-sponsored a couple of crowdfunding conferences. Another Crowd takes a look at a new report on the US crowdfunding market, published by the Cambridge Judge Business […]
Reportstack offers a survey of the P2P market – but it has to be paid for. Below are the bits you can read for free: “P2P Lending: Responding to Disruption is a new market research publication announced by Reportstack. P2P platforms have grown exponentially in the last couple of years. “Their superior customer experience, speed, and ultimately […]
The media is descending the recent Cambridge Judge/NESTA report on crowdfunding with great enthusiasm. Crowdfundinsider excitedly reports a projection that the alternative finance sector will be worth £5 billion next year. If that’s right, our mathematics tells us that’s a projected growth rate of 56.25 per cent next year. Last year saw an 84 per cent […]