Will regulations dampen the success of P2P lending?
Worth some £10bn globally, it seems that P2P lending really is taking over the world – and small businesses can benefit from it most. But what effect will new regulations have on the sector?
£200m UK SME funding programme launched by ThinCats
Lending platform ThinCats and parent company ESF Capital have introduced a £200m SME funding programme for British growth businesses.
New Funding Circle CFO to bolster record SME lending figures
A new Funding Circle CFO has been hired, which will see the SME lending platform’s business building its position following a record start to 2017.
The effect of Trumponomics on the fintech sector and peer-to-peer lending
Jevgenijs Kazanins, CEO of TWINO, discusses how Trumponomics might affect the European peer-to-peer lending industry.
LendInvest: Future Unicorn reveals the plan to become a $1bn company with P2P
Winner of the Future Unicorn Award at our Everline Future 50 2016, peer-to-peer lending platform LendInvest has been given a mammoth challenge, but CEO Christian Faes has told Real Business he’s confident the firm can become a $1bn company – by trotting, not galloping.
Alternative finance for 2016: what are your options?
As many businesses start 2016 with a clean slate and new business hopes and aspirations, it is set to be another year of growth for the alternative finance market.
P2P finance exploded in 2015 as loans from Lending Works grew fourfold
Peer-to-peer finance business Lending Works demonstrated significant growth milestones in 2015, showcasing how powerful the P2P platform has become as the number of loans via the platform rose fourfold.
Funding Circle acquires Zencap to expand P2P lending to SMEs across Europe
London-based firm Funding Circle had already gone beyond its British roots with a US expansion, but the P2P business lender has now expanded across additional countries in Europe, which has been achieved with the acquisition of German counterpart Zencap.
KPMG backs alternative finance and fintech to deliver small business growth
Professional services firm KPMG has forged a strategic partnership with peer-to-peer (P2P) business lender MarketInvoice, believing that alternative finance will help small businesses accelerate growth.
Metro Bank and Zopa aim to further disrupt British banks with new partnership
Metro Bank has become the first British bank to lend through a peer-to-peer platform after announcing it was teaming up with Zopa.
Funding Circle’s CEO on raising $65m and $150m from VCs in just nine months
London firm Funding Circle entered the record books on 23 April by securing a place as one of the top five VC investment deals in British history. Real Business has caught up with CEO Samir Desai, who opened up on how the company managed to raise rounds of $65m and $150m in under a year.