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Our Guide To How SMEs Can Borrow - Plus Loan Latest
More than a third (42 per cent) of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are now using external finance, according to new research reported by our friends at P2P Finance News.
A survey of 4,500 small businesses by consultancy firm BVA BDRC also found that a further four per cent are currently searching for finance. With 5.7 million SMEs in the UK, that means there are around 225,000 small businesses seeking finance at the moment.
Of those seeking finance, around half are looking for growth finance, the BVA BDRC said in its SME Finance Monitor report for the year ending in the second quarter of 2019.
The report looks at the health of the SME economy and reflects the current trends in access to finance for SMEs.
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Woodville, rated A, for £200,000 with an 8 per cent fixed yield, is just closed. A new tranche will be landing on site soon.- DK Tuning is a B+ loan of £280,000 with a five-year term and an indicative interest rate of 10 per cent. It's 44 per cent filled at the time of writing.
- At the time of writing, the loan has a current average yield of 11.2 per cent. That's because of the auction process and some (frankly, speculative) high bid placed. What typically happens is that as the auction closes more competitive offers of credit drive out the expensive ones. Furthermore, the borrower has tREAD MORE
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FCA's 10% P2P Proposal - Show The Ferret To The Nest Egg...
Question: When is advice not advice? Answer: When it comes from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).Let's start with a little context. There's been a greater focus on the peer-to-peer (P2P) sector from commentators and regulators, following the lamentable failure of the P2P platform, Lendy. Lendy's collapse was linked – completely unfairly – with a number of problems experienced by investors in unregulated investments. That scene was set by the London & Capital Finance debacle, followed by a slew of other similar but unrelated failures (unless you count the role of the regulator – which many disgruntled investors do).
It's in the light of the difficulty the FCA found itself in that we should consider the regulator's announcement of a new limit on investor exposure to P2P assets, the loans facilitated on this and other P2P platforms. Investors should not commit more than 10 per cent of their portfolio to P2P is the broad thrust of the proposition. It comes amid a drive towards greater transparency in reporting defaults and bad debts in platforms' loan books, more scrupulous risk management requirements and clarity on dealing with wind-downs in the event of a platform failure.That's right and proper. P2P is a young and fast-expanding sector of financial technology, and these measures are as prudent as they are welcome.Measures are prudent and welcome
The necessary implication is that the fund was previously actively deemed suitable for investors
- The 10 per cent figure though is in fact not so much a limit as an aspirationREAD MORE
