Dean Paul Newbronner of Pitch Perfect Club We are delighted to welcome Pitch Perfect Club to Money&Co. The company’s loan auction opens today, and has been awarded a B+ credit rating by our credit-analysis team. We are a crowdfunding platform, and cannot endorse any prospective borrower. However, we have used our best efforts to ensure […]
A loan offer very much to our lenders’ taste Many congratulations to our Soulful Foods and Iain Burke-Hamilton. The loan auction was successful in raising £360,000 – capital that will be used to grow the business. Ian – pictured above – started making soups and stews for his lunch whilst working for M & […]
Many thanks to our friends at FD Solutions for hosting an excellent evening in Mayfair last week. Money&Co. CEO Nicola Horlick and Paul Dyson, founder of Data2Decisisons, spoke to an engaged audience on the topic of “funding for growth and developing an exit strategy”. “Nicola… originally came to prominence at Morgan Grenfell, being dubbed ‘Superwoman’ […]
This is what used to be known in steam-age journalism as a “picture story”. It’s all about looking at the image – usually of an impossibly cute baby animal. In this case, it’s Money&Co. CEO, Nicola Horlick, whose blog comments were reprised in the Metro newspaper, distributed to commuters across the UK. The offers […]
ShareIn offers equity investment – a different risk proposition The good news is that the crowdfunding market is not – forgive us – overcrowded. So Money&Co. is happy to welcome ShareIn, a new crowdfunding company that operates on the other side of the fence. At Money&Co., we offer loan-based crowdfunding, person-to-business (P2B) opportunities – a […]
Savers and investors are entitled to a lot more of this By leaving their savings in low-yielding accounts with banks and building societies, British savers will lose over £57 billion in potential investment income over the next year. The phrase the Great Bank Robbery became part of common parlance years ago. Now, we’re witnessing the […]
Your Business ezine got wind of Nicola Horlick’s latest speaking engagement, aimed at the financial community and the exciting, innovative world of alternative finance. The Money&Co. CEO was the keynote speaker at FD Solutions’ finance seminar on 26th June. Money & Co. recently announced its first £1 million crowdfunding loan secured on behalf of a client. […]
The banks are still failing to produce the goods for UK business, according to a report in City AM: “Lending to businesses is rising sluggishly while the latest mortgage lending figures showed yesterday that the new regulatory efforts are helping to cool the growth of credit for housing. “Figures from the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) […]
You’re a borrower? They’re talking to you… John Authers argues in the Financial Times (subscription required) that the long-lasting victim of the banking crisis of 2008 could be the banks themselves: “At a retail level, there is the growth in “crowdfunding” or peer-to-peer services. “Spurred by public distrust for conventional banks, and aided by ever stronger […]
Banks will do mortgages, but are reluctant to support small business Vince Cable, the UK government’s business secretary, is the latest senior political and business figure to criticise UK bank lending practice. The Guardian reports Cable’s recent remarks to a business audience: “Banks pump out lending in the mortgage market, while lending to small businesses […]