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In many respects, platform lending has been accepted into the corporate finance mainstream. Witness the latest report from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. Crunching the numbers for 2017, the Centre found that around 40% of loans advanced to businesses through P2P platforms were funded by institutions, including mutual and pension funds. It’s a finding…
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In its latest Small Business Finance Report, covering 2017 and 2018, the British Business Bank welcomes the fact that the flow of capital to SMEs has been enhanced by a growth in non-traditional funding sources. To be more precise, lending and crowdfunding platforms are continuing to provide small businesses with finance that simply was…
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One way or another, all the uncertainty that has been generated by the Brexit process has to come to an end. We’re not quite there yet, of course. Even the conclusion of the first stage of negotiations on the terms of the UK’s withdrawal from Europe is just the beginning of a process. If…
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British Business Investment has announced a new initiative aimed at improving the flow of ‘angel’ funding to small and medium sized businesses in the UK’s regions. Research carried out by the organisation – a subsidiary of the British Business Bank – has revealed significant regional imbalances in the availability of angel funding. According to the…
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Nearly 40% of UK small and medium sized businesses think that it might be difficult to obtain credit and just under a third (31%) see trade finance, or the maintenance of a healthy credit balance as an alternative to taking out a loan or overdraft, according to the latest BDRC-BVA SME Finance Monitor report, covering…
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The world of property development has its own well-established finance ecosystem – one in which banks and also specialist lenders provide a range of funding options to investors, developers and entrepreneurs. And that is good news for anyone preparing plans for an investment in the buy-to-let market or something more ambitious – perhaps…
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Property development opportunities take many forms, so naturally enough, there are also numerous finance options. When preparing to borrow to fund a project, it’s important not only to match the source of finance to the project, but also to think about what the lender will require before signing off on a deal. So depending on…
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Peer to Peer lender, Funding Circle has confirmed plans to list on the London Stock exchange in a flotation that it hopes will raise £300m. The flotation plans were announced at the beginning of September, along with a registration document containing a detailed breakdown of Funding Circle’s current position in the P2P lending market,…
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Barclays has announced plans to partner with MarketInvoice, in a move that will also see the banking giant taking a minority stake in the online business lender. Established in 2011, MarketInvoice offers a variation on the invoice discounting theme by enabling businesses to borrow against their debtor books via an online platform connecting them…
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Britain’s ‘buy to let’ boom has encouraged huge numbers of people to invest in residential property as a means to secure income and growth. On the face of it, the ‘buy to let’ market is dominated by relatively unambitious investors. According to a Council of Mortgage Lenders report (The Profile of Private Landlords) around 60%…
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