Regulation of financial offers to the public is both important and necessary. This is especially so in the growing alternative finance sector, where the barriers to entry are relatively low. Part of the reason that mainstream banks are slow-moving and expensive is that it’s very expensive and time-consuming to get a mainstream banking licence. So […]
Next Wednesday evening offers an opportunity to mix business and pleasure. Money&Co. founder, Nicola Horlick, will be the keynote speaker at an evening near Farnham, Surrey, organised by talkingmoney.co. The event is free, and includes a “glass of fizz” (we’re guessing Prosecco). The venue is the imaginatively titled Bears At The Packhouse. This won’t […]
Our friends at Crowdfundinsider offer a report of strong performance from a peer-to-peer (P2P) lender group. These figures can be seen as a good indicator of the robust health of the industry generally. The UK Peer-to-Peer Finance Association(P2PFA) has published fourth quarter numbers for member platforms. According to their data, cumulative lending now tops £9.5 billion […]
We are pleased to announce the latest tranche of the Seascape offering has been released to market. The offer is for £250,000, with a fixed-rate yield of 8 per cent. The term of the loan of five years. Below we reproduce an extract of the borrowing company’s representations to lenders. While the offer has been […]
The resilience of the peer-to-peer lending sector in a downturn has been debated since the industry’s fruition, write our friends at P2P Finance News in a recent article. The piece goes on to reveal some happy, if perhaps surprising, news: “Funding Circle has claimed its loan book would hold up in a recession, after subjecting […]
Is this the opening of the floodgates? We’ve long been looking at the uses of cryptocurrencies and security tokens, as regularly reported on this site. We’ve also commented on the mixture of fear and envy demonstrated by mainstream finance when it looks at the crypto world. It’s common knowledge that the big banks have been […]
After hubris – essentially over-mighty, prideful overreaching – comes nemesis (the comeuppance that fate decrees). So, following on from yesterday’s look at the increasing use of crypto-assets by peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms, we find a highly entertaining news report from Crowdfundinsider. The news site carries a story of the launch of a new crypto exchange called […]
As the new week begins, the once-irresistible rise of Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, hits a six-week low of around $3,400. That’s a decline of over 70 per cent from a year ago at $11,500 levels. Anyone buying Bitcoin in mid-December 2017, just over 13 months ago, would have seen an even more painful decline as […]
Today, we offer a snapshot of one of the things that happens online when big FinTech companies try to manage their growth. Major peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders in the US and Australia are turning to an independent supplier of blockchain technology to minimise fraud. Our friends at AltFi report it this way: More than a dozen […]
What’s the average yield on a peer-to-peer (P2P) loan? How do you get a quick, fast P2P loan? What does P2P borrowing entail? All these questions – and many more – are answered on site in the Knowledge Hub at the foot of most pages (Click on “About P2P”, “About Crowdfunding”). For lenders looking to […]