Founder of BestInvest and Chief Executive Officer of EQ Investors, John Spiers, has published a blog discussing the threat of Chinese innovation in the peer-to-peer (P2P)...
With only a few days until the launch of a brand new type of ISA – the Innovative Finance ISA – Hannah Maundrell, Editor in Chief of money.co.uk...
Abundance, a regulated online platform that lets people lend money to renewable energy projects in the UK and share in the returns from generating low-carbon electricity,...
The UK government has launched a consultation on how to enable people who offer peer-to-peer (P2P) loans to use tax free individual savings accounts (ISAs). Blue...
The UK’s fast-growing “sharing economy” could be worth £9 billion by 2025, according to a new report from PwC. The analysis considered many different sectors of...
From Tuesday, all individual savings accounts (Isa) will become new ISAs (Nisa) as government reforms come into force. The changes aim to provide greater flexibility and...
Santander has agreed to a referral relationship with Funding Circle, the first of its kind in the UK, suggesting that alternative methods of finance are gaining...
Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular form of financing that allows entrepreneurs to realise their ideas with the help of the crowd. Crowdfunder, the UK’s biggest crowdfunding...
Over the next decade the peer-to-peer industry will grow rapidly and reach $1 trillion (£0.59tn) globally, according to a report from US-based venture capital firm Foundation...
Chancellor George Osborne made a number of announcements during the budget that will impact on investment and personal finance, including a tax relief for investment in...
The amount of money lent through the peer-to-peer sector increased by 121% in 2013, when compared to the previous year, figures from the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association...
The Treasury is currently in discussions around extending the ISA regime – potentially providing savers and investors with more flexibility, transparency and control over their finances....
Alternative finance intermediaries, including sources such as crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and invoice trading, raised almost £1 billion in 2013, market data has revealed. According to a...
How can we fix our broken financial system? That question has been contemplated by many since the economic crisis first hit in 2007. But bringing together leading...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has tabled tougher regulation for the increasingly popular crowdfunding industry. Crowdfunding allows individuals to lend to small businesses or buy shares...