What are the best Innovative Finance ISAs? The best innovative finance ISAs are these, which offer a market-leading risk-reward balance: CapitalRise IFISA. (Minimum £1,000 per loan.) CapitalStackers IFISA. (Minimum £2,500 per loan.) Housemartin IFISA. (Minimum £1 per loan.) Loanpad IFISA. (Minimum £0.01, spread across 100s…
My team and I have been assessing P2P lending accounts since 2014 and we continue to have an outstanding record. (We won’t always get all the most important calls right – that’s impossible in investing – but we expect that we almost always will.) My…
Somo’s Bridging Lending Account received an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders . That’s before bad debts, although historically losses have been virtually zero. Visit Somo* or keep reading the Somo Review.
Somo’s Bridging Lending Account received an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders . That’s before bad debts, although historically losses have been virtually zero. Visit Somo* or keep reading the Somo Review.
CrowdProperty’s Bridging & Development loans are unrated. This account has recently been paying lenders interest before bad debts. Visit CrowdProperty or keep reading the CrowdProperty Review.
Housemartin’s P2P Lending Account And IFISA And Classic Account has earned an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders around of the loan amount in interest, after bad debts. Visit Housemartin* or keep reading the Housemartin Review.
Somo’s Bridging Lending Account received an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders . That’s before bad debts, although historically losses have been virtually zero. Visit Somo* or keep reading the Somo Review.
I was hoping to do an update on Kuflink in November after getting sufficient answers to a number of outstanding queries, as well as corrected data. Unfortunately, those answers are not all in yet, but there’s more immediate news for me to update you on….
The last time we updated our piece on profitability (Which P2P Lending Sites Are Profitable?) I received the comment: “There is a flipside, the more the platform is making, the more they are taking from the lenders who actually fund the loans. And once Lendy was…
In 4thWay’s main update published this week, I wrote about how the financial regulator has put restrictions on Kuflink, due to failings in governance. “Governance” basically means managing the business in a proper way, with sufficient safeguards for lenders and others. One of the issues…
LANDE* was the first ever P2P lending company in either the eurozone or continental Europe to be fully assessed by 4thWay. Lenders using LANDE have lent since 2020. What does LANDE do? LANDE’s borrowers are Latvian, Lithuanian and Romanian businesses – almost all farmers. Loans…
Proplend’s Tranche A, 5-50% LTV Lending Against Property Mostly Receiving Rent has earned an Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying interest after lending fees bad debts. Proplend’s other loans (called tranche B and C) are also 3/3 rated and paying 9%-12%….
On second-charge loans approved on or after 1st November 2025, Somo* is providing 10% first-loss protection on the money you lend. The total Somo will ever pay out for the guarantee is capped at £1.2 million. Somo’s guarantee cuts in when all reasonable attempts to…
Unbolted’s IFISA And Classic Account are Unrated, because we don’t receive sufficient data to conduct our full assessments. Unbolted has only sporadically provided information and sparse data to 4thWay. Lenders seem to be offered around after bad debts, if you re-lend your loans and interest….
CapitalRise’s Bridging & Development Loans have earned the Exceptional 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. These loans have been paying lenders around interest after bad debts. Visit CapitalRise* or keep reading the CapitalRise Review.
Crowd2Fund’s Business Lending is unrated, due to lack of data. There’s not enough information to estimate lending rates after losses from bad debts. Visit Crowd2Fund or keep reading the Crowd2Fund Review.
We’ve had a loooot of emails from lenders about recent changes at Kuflink, as well as one or two about bad debts. I’ve finished my investigations into the changes and re-interviewed key people at Kuflink. I’ve also done some preliminary research on bad debts in…
Annualised returns after costs and losses have averaged 7.49%, with no losing months. The graph above is not smoothed but actual results over time. I note that, if all write-offs from bad debts were squashed into the same period of time, it would have meant…
CapitalStackers’ Property Lending Account/IFISA has earned an “Exceptional” 3/3 4thWay PLUS Rating. We forecast that lenders who start lending today will earn an average interest after bad debts, most of the time, although this will vary depending on your specific loans. Visit CapitalStackers* or keep…
P2P lending, IFISA lending and other online lending is pretty simple and straightforward to do well, but only if you do all the routine things right. Neither 4thWay’s lending tips nor any other educational information from us or elsewhere online can save you from disappointment,…
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