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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Infancy has its problems. Yes, the charm of youth is compelling, and often truths emanate from the mouths of babes. But all that novelty can create a climate of uncertainty, and juvenile testimony is notorious unreliable. So it is with the still-young word of crowdfunding and alternative finance. Witness the subtext of this Alison Coleman […]
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 […]