You can lend money to businesses through Funding Circle graded by the peer-to-peer lending company as “A+” – its highest grade. Although Funding Circle conservatively estimates that 0.6% of these loans will go unpaid each year, not even 20 A+ loans have gone bad in the four…
I totally missed the potential of this when the news broke a few weeks ago. Proplend, the property P2P lending company, announced that we can now lend through it in a pension wrapper. At first I thought you, me and most people were automatically excluded,…
The oldest business and property P2P lending company has checked out how us lenders would come out of an economic disaster. Funding Circle asked Hymans Robertson, an external consultancy, to conduct the same “stress tests” on it as the banks have been required to do by the Prudential Regulation…
With P2P lending company GraduRates closing down gently, I think its appropriate to take a look at the other companies that have gone out of business. Because I don’t want my money disappearing, do you? Let’s see what has happened in these past nine years…
Here are the latest high-rate loans that are open for you to bid on from rebuildingsociety, the P2P lending company that finances riskier loans to businesses. Update on 21/12/2014: all the loans below are now fullly funded, but you can still under-cut bids from other…
LendInvest, the largest property P2P lending company, has just reduced its minimum lending amount from £10,000 to £1,000, bringing it into the reach of many more lenders. LendInvest will also soon enable automatic lending and the ability to sell your loan parts to others. In…
According to Assetz Capital, business and property P2P lending company, businesses that borrow through P2P should technically withhold tax from individual lenders. If true, it still doesn’t affect P2P lending companies that have consumer borrowers. Just business borrowers. On the Assetz website it says: One significant area…
This article was corrected on 14 December. Previoulsy, we had recorded Wellesley’s new one-year rate as 4% (before cashback) when it should have been 3%. On Monday 15 December, Wellesley & Co., a property P2P lending company with a zero bad debt record and a bad-debt…
In a recent report for Landbay, Andrew Hagger of MoneyComms set out his concerns for the P2P lending industry and for individual lenders as the industry grows, as well as his solution: “It’s vital that robust risk management procedures are maintained as the sector expands. “With…
Andrew Hagger of MoneyComms, formerly a spokesperson for Moneyfacts, has written a report into P2P lending, commissioned by Landbay. Hagger set out his views on the sort of P2P lending companies you should lend through if you’re new to P2P lending, and which specific companies fit the bill: “If I…
Funding Circle, the oldest and largest business and property P2P lending company in the UK, has conducted analysis on how well lenders are able to sell their loan parts to other lenders when they want to get out early. Selling business loan parts Roughly 70%…
Zopa, the world’s oldest P2P lending Company, says its lenders set great store in transparency, so it has started to take steps to become much more open on when your money will be lent. This makes sense; we all become much more patient and complain less when we know…
Probably from April next year, any losses you make in P2P lending can be offset against your income tax. The news was announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement today. Currently, losses in P2P lending either can’t be offset in the case of lending to individuals,…
True to its word, Zopa, the world’s first P2P lending Company, has made the change it had promised to improve information in our online lending accounts. We can can now see what money is queuing and what money is in the process of being matched to new…
RateSetter, the biggest consumer loans P2P lending Company when measured by monthly lending, has been awarded Best Peer-to-Peer Lender at the Wealth Management Awards, which is run by the Financial Times and the Investors Chronicle. The awards aim to help investors (including lenders) to find the best…
Research by Peter Baeck, Liam Collins and Bryan Zhang from the University of Cambridge has revealed that £1.6bn has been lent through peer-to-peer lending websites, whereas just £84m has been raised in the higher-risk equity crowdfunding area. Just £26m has been raised in rewards crowdfunding….
Samir Desai, CEO at Funding Circle, the largest P2P lending company focused on loans to UK businesses, did a presentation called “Building A Better Financial World” at industry conference LendIt. Samir said that expected average returns for all Funding Circle loans after fees and bad debts,…
Mat Gazeley from Zopa has just published more details about how Zopa matches your money to borrowers in a blog post. The key takeaways Mat explained that, above all else, Zopa lenders who receive loan repayments are ahead in the queue when it comes to…
Spokesperson Aldwyn Boscawen from Wellesley & Co., the P2P lending service, informed 4thWay today: “The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association has accepted the resignation of Wellesley & Co. with immediate effect. Following conversations between the P2PFA and Wellesley & Co. it became apparent that Wellesley’s ongoing marketing strategy would be…
