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Merry Christmas From All Of Us At Money&Co.

Merry Christmas from all of us at Money&Co. We’ll be back after the festivities for what promises to be an exciting and productive 2018. Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is about bringing individuals seeking a good return on capital together with businesses seeking funds to grow. The average gross return achieved by lenders is 8.6 per cent […]

Risky Business: P2P Lenders Assess Loss Potential

As regular readers and users will be aware, it‘s our duty to point out that lending, while potentially lucrative, carries risk. Our friends a AltFi report on a fellow P2P lender, and its treatment of risk: “RateSetter has reinstated the expected losses in its portfolio and now gives us two cohort level expected loss figures to […]

The Week In Crowdfunding: A Dozen Essential Reads

Hello and welcome to a new weekly feature. Our director of content and communications briefs Money&Co.’s executive team every day on the most important stories in crowdfunding, small-business funding, and alternative finance. Below we offer his distillation of the most interesting “must-read” stories of the week. The stories are broken down by geographic area (UK, […]

The SME Revolution In Debt And Equity Funding

We’re talking about a revolution. Well, Luke Davis, co-founder of Money&Co. and CEO of equity-raise specialist firm, IW Capital, is. Here, courtesy of our friends at Business Quarter, he looks at “the hugely important role alternative finance has in filling the finance gap left behind as banks withdrew their SME lending options. “Britain is on […]

London Is Fast-Moving FinTech’s Top Location

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 […]

Crowdfunding IFISA Providers Face ‘First World Problems’

The crowdfunding industry is facing what some term “First World Problems”. In other words, the future is warm and bright for the industry and consumer alike – and the major difficulty is how to make the best of a good situation. In concrete financial terms, the Innovative Finance Individual Savings Account (IFISA), which will be […]

Season’s Greetings From Money&Co.

We wish all our lenders, borrowers and site visitors the very best for the festive season. We will be resuming our editorial news and blog service, with a look back at 2015, and an  examination of the accuracy or otherwise of the predictions we made this time last year. Plus, of course, we’ll be offering our […]

UK P2P Lenders More Engaged Than US In Fast-Growing Market

We may not be bigger, but it seems we might be better. The UK’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market is fast-growing and, per capita, draws more commitment from lenders, according to a report from Business Insider. The report draws on a research document compiled by Business Insider, with supplementary data from Cambridge University and Ernst & […]

Money&Co.’s Nicola Horlick On Inspirational Journey

We’re pleased to bring you a long-overdue interview with Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick. Filmed by An Inspirational Journey back in the summer, just after our record-breaking (“landmark” – according to the Financial Times) £1 million deal, the interview touches on Nicola’s personal and business lives. The interview is well worth watching in its entirety. Money&Co. […]