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Can We Finally Fill £4.3bn SME Funding Gap?

Martin Baker | June 21, 2016

Today, we look at an old problem from a new perspective. The problem is, in a sense, the reason we exist – the small-business (or small and medium-sized enterprise, aka SME) funding gap, This gap, also known as the Macmillan gap, following research conducted on this very issue in the 1930s, is the difference between funds […]

Alternative Finance Has 2 Trillion Future – WEF

Martin Baker | October 27, 2015

These are exciting times for the peer-to-peer lending sub-sector of crowdfunding, as a recent speech and a new report indicate. The P2P sector – that’s the space we inhabit at Money&Co. – is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s leading regulator of financial services. The FCA has been widely and rightly praised […]