This Is Money, the personal finance platform, runs an interesting piece on what it calls the person-to-person marketplace, which it anticipates will be worth £230 billion in a decade.
This general article is well worth a read. It looks at the way technology allows us all to be better connected, and examines the economic efficiencies that come with that. The article includes phenomena such as car-sharing and other ways that new technology allows us to collaborate, co-operate and (of course) compete…
The financial section deals with the person-to-person or peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market. This is what we do at Money&Co. We bring businesses together with people, via our high-tech platform. Lenders can get excellent returns on capital, and businesses receive the money they need to grow.
Our borrowers tend to be later-stage companies with an established trading record and a history of profitability. Earlier on in their life cycle, young companies may offer equity – a stake in the business – in exchange for capital. The recent Discovering The Power Of The Crowd conference in London examined both debt and equity sources of capital for young companies. Here, James Codling, co-founder of Venture Founders (with a deal size of around £400,000, James’s company does transactions of a size similar to those we do at Money&Co. – and, like our borrowers, Venture Founders’ investee companies tend to be more mature businesses). See our interview with James here.
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