The week begins with our latest loan offering experiencing strong demand, with more offerings in the pipeline. Peer-to-peer (P2P) financing is becoming better understood and more widely accepted by individual lenders looking to get a good return on capital and borrowing small companies alike. Our friends at P2P Finance News are helping to spread the […]
The Financial Times reports on a flourishing FinTech market – although the potential consequences of Brexit appear to be a concern. We run an extended excerpt below. You can subscribe here – quality journalism of the type offered by the FT is something we strongly recommend in a world where ”alternative facts” are bandied about. […]
And so to Shoreditch. This ancient part of London, frequented by Shakespeare and his troupe, The King’s Men, in relatively recent times, played host to a conference on modern, cutting-edge finance. Crowdfest, mounted in association with the UK Crowdfunding Association, covered the full gamut of alternative finance, and continues tomorrow. You can register here. Money&Co. […]
Our friends at Crowdfundinsider report on a successful inaugural conference held by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Cambridge University. The agenda covered “a wide range of topics covering the world of alternative finance. A distinguished cadre of policy makers, platform operators, and academicians descended upon Downing College to discuss the future of finance. “The […]
The European crowdfunding industry is set to gather in Paris shortly, report our friends at Crowdfundinsider. And there’s certainly plenty to discuss… “The 5th annual European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) convention is scheduled to take place in Paris this fall and ECN has set high expectations regarding the diverse range of topics to be covered, reports Crowdfundinsider. “Oliver […]
One of the star performers at the recent Alternative Finance: New Solutions to Old Problems conference, sponsored by Cubism Law and co-sponsored by Money&Co. was Peter Wilding of British Influence. Peter, a qualified lawyer, is passionately pro-business, and is politically engaged on the centre-right of the UK political spectrum. British Influence (BI) was another co-sponsor. […]
Should small companies seek to borrow to grow – or should they raise funds by selling a share of their business in an equity raise? The broad dichotomy between debt and equity is subject to scrutiny by some (we’ll be hosting a guest blog on site on this very issue later this week). But the […]
Ed Bowsher of Share Radio put it this way at the recent Alternative Finance conference, sponsored by Cubism Law, Money&Co., Archover and others: “Are we already seeing the end of the golden age of crowdfunding for individuals? Institutions are coming in and wanting to lend millions – what does that mean for private investors?” This […]
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 […]
Following the recent conference, Alternative Finance: New Solutions To Old Problems, which Money&Co. co-sponsored, Alt Fi invited us to reprise the highlights of the day. Here’s some of what we came up with: “The event was sponsored by Cubism Law and a host of leading players in the alternative finance sector, including Money&Co., the P2P […]