The Cambridge Judge Business School is arguably the world’s leading authority on alternative finance and crowdfunding. It has just released a report on the state of the market in Europe, excluding the UK. Highlights include: France, Germany and the Netherlands are the top three countries for online alternative finance by market volume in Europe, […]
Reportstack offers a survey of the P2P market – but it has to be paid for. Below are the bits you can read for free: “P2P Lending: Responding to Disruption is a new market research publication announced by Reportstack. P2P platforms have grown exponentially in the last couple of years. “Their superior customer experience, speed, and ultimately […]
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 […]
SME growth requires more than good weather and fertiliser… In a recent report published by Barclays Bank and the Business Growth Fund, the point was made that the British are very good at starting businesses (the number of new companies created rose by 3.9 per cent in the first half of this year), but we […]
The alternative-finance way of matching borrowers and lenders is yielding exciting results Cambridge University and Nesta recently published a report entitled “Understanding Alternative Finance”. According to the report, the alternative finance market in the UK will have provided £1.74 billion during 2014 and this compares to £267 million in 2012 and £666 million in 2013. […]
Daylight robbery – on the high street! It’s no surprise that the crowdfunding is expanding so rapidly. Last week, I pointed out the shocking fact that by leaving money on deposit with banks and building societies, British savers and investors £57 billion a year worse off, because of lost interest. Call it “The Great Savings […]
New figures from the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), a charitable body, reveal that the number of crowdfunding platforms operating in the UK rose by over 50% in 2013. NESTA’s online commentary service, The Economic Voice reports that the number of crowdfunding platforms operating in the UK, across every type from reward-based crowdfunding […]
Britain is set to overtake the United States as the world leader in crowdfunding, according to Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick. Speaking at a crowdfunding event organised by the NESTA charity (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts), the Money&Co. chief executive said: “I think we will become a world leader, partly because we are […]