Tag Archives: covid-19

Covid Necessities Mother AltFi Invention

The pandemic has certainly been an agent for change. The need to adapt strategy and business direction has become a matter of survival for both mainstream and alternative financial sectors. The inventiveness, mothered by necessity, may even see one of the oldest and best-established direct lending platforms morph into an altogether different type of financial […]

Covid Aid Net Is Spread Yet Wider

The dust thrown up by the Covid-19 virus hasn’t even begun to settle yet. Our friends at Crowdfundinsider report on a new platform set up to facilitate funding for companies that don’t qualify for the various government relief schemes. This is a separate issue from the scramble among altfi platforms to qualify for distributor status. […]

Government Covid Loan And Stimulus Schemes Surveyed

We continue our regular News updates on the UK government’s stimulus schemes, launched to combat Covid-19. Legal site JD Supra takes a look at the success, or otherwise, of the initiatives. We run an excerpt, with the full story available here. Each Scheme targets businesses of different sizes and, as such, provides differing levels of […]

Covid-19 Aftermath: Is Finance Industry Waving Goodbye To Cash?

Cash usage is fastest declining in the UK compared with the rest of Europe during coronavirus, according to research from Accenture. We’ve posted a blog recently on payment systems and the fast-changing identity requirements 9biometrics, etc) and how this will ultimately change what we think of as money itself (see the piece here). Cash certainly is […]

FCA: Finance Sector Should Reassess Debt And Risk, Recapitalise

Charles Rendell, chair of the Financial Conduct Authority, recently made an online presentation to retail bankers and others on the “front line” of the financial services industry.  Mondovisione carries the text of the speech. We offer bullet-point highlights and the introduction. The full text is available here: Highlights The coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis shows we need […]

Future Fund Is Latest Attempt To Get Cash Through To SMEs

How are you doing? Nowadays, this question isn’t just a conversational gambit, but a genuine enquiry about health and well-being. Early indications point to a difficult future for SMEs in the post-Covid UK. There’s plenty of good intention from the government – but, of course, some might see good intentions as the paving stones on […]

FinTech In The Time Of Covid – The Latest

Self-isolation and working from home come easily to the team at Money&Co. We have a small team and, thanks to a super-conservative approach to risk analysis, we have a business that functions well, despite difficult conditions in a Covid world. Incidentally, that conservative approach to risk analysis means that the flow of loan offerings on […]