Are New Regulations Taking the Crowd Out of Crowdfunding?
A new set of regulations from the FCA has been met with outrage in the crowdfunding community.
View ArticleThe AltFi Frontline: A Landmark Month for AltFinance
It’s been quite the month for alternative finance providers. New crowdfunding regulations, the AltFi Summit, encouraging words from Vince Cable, the extension of ISAs to include p2p lending and the...
View ArticleThe Liberum AltFi Index: Growth Rates Soar Across the Peer-to-Business Space
One particularly lively sub-sector of the alternative finance world has stolen the limelight in this month’s statistical breakdown.
View ArticleAn Interview With Geoff Miller
Geoff Miller’s GLI Finance has had an active few days – it’s just announced that its investing in a whole new swathe of alternative finance businesses, in the UK and beyond ! GLIF is rapidly turning...
View ArticleGLIF is Covering All Corners of the SME Funding Space
GLI Finance isn’t done adding to its already impressive portfolio of alternative finance providers.
View ArticleKeeping Pace With SME Credit Conditions
A trio of SME-focused surveys have hit the wires today, each shedding light on a different aspect of the small business landscape.
View ArticleAlternative Finance: A call for increased regulation and transparency
While the rapid growth of alternative finance has been well noted by the media and wider financial industry, regulators have struggled to keep pace. This is troubling and surprising as, without...
View ArticleThe Volume Winners and Losers of 2015 thus far...
At the end of December last year, AltFi Data put together a series of volume predictions for the UK industry in 2015. The predictions were based on the recent growth of each platform and were...
View ArticleUKBN Raises More Money
UK Bond Network (UKBN) has raised an extra £500k, taking its valuation to £15m.
View ArticleThe “Innovative Finance ISA” Arrives
The moment the alternative finance space has been waiting for has arrived.
View Articleiwoca to Raise Money Through UKBN
A brief update on a rare piece of inter-platform activity, as iwoca turns to one of the UK’s more unique P2P players in an effort to raise money.
View ArticleDigging Into the iwoca Bond Issue
This week on CrowdView we’re abstaining from our usual look at the go-go world of crowdfunding equity based campaigns and focusing instead on the loans space – or should we say bonds space! We’ve...
View ArticleDeadline Day
Today marks the closing of the application window for peer-to-peer lenders wishing to be fully authorised by the FCA.
View ArticleBonds In, Equity Out – Autumn Statement Wrap-Up
The dust has now settled on George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, and the alternative finance space exhales. The Chancellor had a few surprises in store, both in terms of what was mentioned, and what was...
View ArticleIFISA Extends to Include 'Debt Securities'
The list of qualifying investments for the Innovative Finance ISA has been extended.
View ArticleUK Bond Network’s latest offering under the microscope: an analysis
We’ve long wondered why the alternative finance bond market has, until now, solely focused on private businesses. Surely there are enough smaller businesses listed on the alternative (AIM) and main...
View ArticleUK Bond Network’s latest offering under the microscope: an analysis
We’ve long wondered why the alternative finance bond market has, until now, solely focused on private businesses. Surely there are enough smaller businesses listed on the alternative (AIM) and main...
View ArticleUK Bond Network’s First Convertible Bond Goes Live
Fund raising helps AIM listed business with M&A
View ArticleA solar bond with a difference
One of the more interesting developments of recent weeks has been the emergence of mainstream asset managers within the alternative finance space. Just this week for instance AltFi reported that...
View ArticleGLI Reveals Master Plan
Andy Whelan’s plan for the future of GLI Finance is beginning to fall into place, as the company announces its intention to bring a number of GLI portfolio pieces into the newly formed Sancus BMS Group.
View ArticleFund Watch: What next for pioneer GLI?
It’s easy to forget that the first real alternative finance fund listed on the stock market in the UK wasn’t the big daddy of the sector, P2PGI, but the much smaller GLI. This started out as a credit...
View ArticleUpfront Car Finance gets backing from UK Bond Network
Upfront Car Finance plc, a specialist vehicle finance provider for Uber drivers, has secured £3.5m of funding from peer-to-peer bond platform UK Bond Network.
View ArticleAlternative lender iwoca closes £46m debt and equity fundraise
European SME lender iwoca closes £46m fundraise, includes £21m Series C.
View ArticleUK Bond Network joins the ranks of the fully authorised
Corporate bond investment platform receives direct authorisation from regulator.
View ArticleSavers missing out on £21bn of interest, says peer-to-peer lender
One of the few fully authorised peer-to-peer lenders sizes up the Innovative Finance ISA opportunity.
View ArticleGoji calls on P2Ps to get moving on IFISA as tax cut-off looms
Goji to launch IFISA services for four fully authorised peer-to-peer platforms, including Landbay and UK Bond Network.
View ArticleUK Bond Network approved to offer tax-efficient Innovative Finance ISAs
UK Bond Network, the alternative finance provider that specialises in structuring and distributing investment opportunities in secured corporate bonds, has moved a step closer to offering a...
View ArticleGoji launches P2P lending bond targeting 5% yields to woo wealth managers
The P2P specialist investment manager wants to open access to the fast-growing alternative lending market.
View ArticleUK Bond Network launches Innovative Finance ISA for secured corporate bonds
The platform is the latest to the new tax-wrapper, following launches from the likes of Landbay, Lending Crowd and Goji.
View ArticleBondMason launches P2P SIPP product
“P2P lending is an increasingly attractive asset-class,” says BondMason’s chief executive
View ArticleTime for a new market for mini bonds
In my humble opinion, the fledgling alternative finance sector has in the past done itself absolutely no favours embracing mini bonds. I’ve never been a fan of these poorly structured investments...
View ArticleExclusive: P2P firm shuts platform
The peer-to-peer investment platform focused on corporate bonds, launched in 2013, received its full authorisation from the FCA back in November 2016.
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