Get on the screen, and make the comparisons. Is your cash working hard enough for you? Sunday – lie-ins, roast dinners, pub lunches, maybe the football on television. And maybe, just maybe, this Sunday might also offer an opportunity for a cool-minded review of your finances and a careful check that you’re making your cash […]
House price inflation penalises the young, but crowdfunding investment can help In her latest blog, Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick argues that rampant house price inflation effectively penalizes the younger generation by transferring wealth to the old. She details the potentially disastrous the social and economic effects of rampant real-estate inflation, but says that the […]
Investors are getting more savvy – and want to be told what the real costs of “mainstream” investments are Financial commentators call it the war of the challenger banks. A less flamboyant way of putting it is that there is increasing competition to offer loans and savings products to consumers who have been poorly served […]
The Financial Times reports that London is emerging as the world leader for crowdfunding with more campaigns being run out of the UK capital than cities in the US – where the method of financing new ventures was born. The claim is being made by the Crowdfunding Centre, a research group, which has for the […]
The crowd wants to be shown the money… Crowdfunding is being taken more and more seriously as a medium for prime retail savings rates. Crowdfunding intelligence platform, Another Crowd, puts it this way: “Many come to crowdfunding as investors, in search of top savings rates. Deposit-account investors certainly have had a dismal time of it. […]
The loan market helps you find a willing fellow lender on the other side of the screen We are delighted to announce the formal launch of the Money&Co.’s loan market with effect from midnight, Saturday 2nd August 2014. This means that if you have made a loan and wish to cash out before the end […]
The breakfast events have gone very well – more are planned for the autumn It was a case of standing room only at Money&Co.’s latest lender breakfast at our Bruton Place offices this week. Lenders’ very welcome interest in meeting the Money&Co. team created pressure on space in our compact downstairs meeting rooms. The debate […]
Crowdfunding now takes cenre stage Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, harboured ambitions to be an actress, but three years as a student at Oxford turned her head, and a career in finance followed, reports Economia magazine in a recent profile of Nicola. Economia describes itself as “the member publication for ICAEW chartered accountants… essential technical accountancy […]
Thanks to our friends at The Mirror for directing musical entrepreneur Allan Siema in the direction of Money&Co. (we’d provide a link, but for some reason the BizBureau section of Mirror coverage doesn’t appear on its online offering). We’d be delighted to hear from Allan. We have more than £5 million of would-be borrowers lined […]
Crowdfunding in civic splendour I took part in a panel discussion at the International Festival of Business in Liverpool last week. The event was organized by the UK Business Angel Association. Their “Investment Summit” was held in the magnificent surroundings of St. George’s Hall. I shared the platform with a number of crowdfunding experts and […]