Today, we offer an excerpt from an interesting take on regulation from our American cousins. This opinion, piece, in Forbes magazine, deals with the regulation of digital assets and financial synthetics – but it offers a different way of looking at things during a period of change in the regulation of financial markets, including alternative […]
Freedom of choice or labour-saving device? There’s been some concern in certain quarters that some players in the peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending sector of crowdfunding will no longer allow investors on their platforms to choose which specific companies they want to lend money to. Leading commentator David Prosser, who profiled our CEO in Forbes a […]
Hello again! We’re back after half a day offline for a technical overhaul. Thanks to readers, users, lenders, borrowers and visitors for your patience. Today, we revisit a familiar space. We often take a friendly peek over the other side of the crowdfuding fence at our equity-raising cousins. Money&Co. does debt crowdfunding, which is the […]
Britain is a nation of start-ups, but not of scale-ups, reports David Prosser in Forbes. David cites recent research that concludes that the UK’s “small and medium-sized enterprises are being stifled by a lack of access to finance. Like others before it, this study, from the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, […]
The UK media has carried a series of commentaries in recent days asking more or less the same question: Why are there no UK tech giants, like Amazon or Google? It’s a moot point, but we can at least say with some conviction that we have a healthy tech sector in the UK, and the […]
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 […]
David Prosser, formerly of The Independent, blogs in Forbes on the Financial Current Authority’s (FCA) current review of peer-to-peer lending. David’s views are always worth listening to, and this article is no exception: “Does Britain’s booming crowdfunding industry really have a problem with investor protection? The unveiling by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of a […]
To quote Hamlet: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” So we should perhaps view the recent comments of the US investment bank, Morgan Stanley, with a slightly cocked head. The bank takes a very positive view of P2P in a recent Forbes article, which asks whether peer-to-peer (P2P) lending might […]
David Prosser reports in Forbes on alternative finance’s impressive 2015 figures. David, who profiled Money&Co.’s CEO, Nicola Horlick last year, has had sight of the first of five reports being published by the Cambridge Judge Business School. Crowdfundinsider has also got wind of the figures. An extended excerpt from the Forbes article is reproduced here. […]
Alison Coleman writes in Forbes on the changing European FinTech scene, with London currently at its centre. As part of that FinTech scene, we have an exciting 2016 lined up, with a pipeline of new loans all set to come on stream. Watch this space. “An abundance of tech talent, a responsive regulatory environment, and the […]