Latest Crowdfunding News & Blog

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Big And Beautiful Or Small And Sticky? P2P Needs Small Investors

Tuesday 16 July 2019

Providers of financial services like "sticky" money, capital that stays once it's arrived. The fact is that small investors and savers, often criticised for "inertia", are slow to action. Their money, generally speaking, is sticky.At Money&Co. we are committed to keeping the crowd, in the form of the small investor, in crowdfunding. The stickiness of the money is an ancillary issue for us. The real point here is that we started out with the mission of bringing individual investors looking for a good return on capital together with small businesses seeking funds to grow.

We stand true to that objective, as reported here many times over.

Below we offer news snippets that deal with institutional commitment (or otherwise) to the peer-to-peer (P2P) sector.

Lendable has secured a £200m funding line from Goldman Sachs Private Capital as the consumer lender continues to attract institutional finance, according to AltFi.

The London-based consumer lending platform landed the forward flow funding transaction from the New York investment bank, to continue to fund online loans to consumers in minutes using machine learning technology.Lendable chief capital officer Rory McHugh said: "We believe Goldman Sachs and the Luxembourg fund we are launching la

Why Well-Managed P2P Really Works - Part II

Monday 17 June 2019

In part II of our blog on the P2P sector after the high-profile collapse of the Lendy platform, Nicola Horlick, Money&Co.'s CEO looks at how Money&Co.'s P2P loan book compares in terms of security and access as well as performance – with leading mainstream investments.

Over the last 20 years, the FTSE 100 index has barely moved. It is true that UK equities have a relatively high yield compared to other markets, but when one takes into account fund management fees and inflation, investors' capital has not appreciated at all. Older investors are generally looking for income and those UK stocks that yielded the most at the beginning of the millennium tended to perform poorly. The banks were hit by the banking crisis and the oil sector saw a collapse in profits when the oil price declined sharply.Many investors responded to the weakness in the equity market by investing in Cash ISAs, but the average yield is only 1per cent and many of the high street banks are only offering rates of 0.5 per cent. With inflation running at 2.1 per cent, clients are losing money in real terms. For those looking for yield, P2P business loans, responsibly originated with proper security, offer a very attractive investment opportunity.

It should be noted that Money&Co. has been lending for over 5 years and has only had one bad debt so far, representing a bad debt rate of 0.04 per cent per annum.

It is no surprise that lenders may be feeling cautious about the P2P sector following the recent failure of the Lendy platform, but we would urge risk-aware inev