It’s with great pleasure that I’m permitted occasionally return to my old stomping grounds of share investing, even within the confines of 4thWay, where our focus is entirely on research and ratings for online direct lending. Funding Circle, a stock-market listed P2P lending company, gives me this opportunity today. With the Funding Circle share price… Read more
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Funding Circle Share Price: Is Funding Circle A Buy?
CapitalRise Review
Here’s the CapitalRise review from one of 4thWay’s experts: 4thWay’s Quick Expert CapitalRise Review Will be surprised if this one isn’t a good’un CapitalRise is available to sophisticated/wealthy investors only So to use it you need to have: Invested in an unlisted company in the past 12 months (such as through crowdfunding websites). Or you need an… Read more
Loanpad Review
Here’s the Loanpad review from one of 4thWay’s specialists: 4thWay’s Quick Expert Loanpad Review Auto-spread your money across loans backed by property 2-3 times greater than the loan size Loanpad Review: their best-rated product This account has been paying interest after bad debts. Read about the 4thWay PLUS Ratings, compare more peer-to-peer lending accounts or… Read more
Which P2P Lending Sites Are Profitable?
For many years, 4thWay has had a small, steady stream of requests from our readers to find out which P2P lending companies are profitable – which of them are making money. That’s why we have this guide, which we update kind of regularly. Lenders’ concern is that if these websites are not profitable then they… Read more
23 Peer-to-Peer Property Lending Websites
You have dozens of choices when it comes to peer-to-peer property lending. A small number of property P2P lending websites offer lending that is usually intrinsically low risk. Typically this means lending to borrowers against properties that are receiving rent. This can mean homeowner mortages and loans (although those are very rare in P2P), mortgages… Read more
Who Owns The P2P Lending Sites?
For fast-growing startup companies – which includes most P2P lending sites – being profitable isn’t usually the best measure of whether it will succeed. This is especially the case since most of them are not profitable. And you don’t expect them to be. They need and want to grow rapidly and to do so they have… Read more
UK Peer-to-Peer Lending For Overseas Residents
Here’s our list of P2P lending companies that you can lend through from overseas, i.e. outside the UK. And there’s another list below of those that you can’t. In addition to any requirements below, you may only open an IFISA if you are a UK taxpayer and have an National Insurance number. Overseas investors allowed… Read more
Octopus Choice Review
Here’s the Octopus Choice review from one of 4thWay’s specialists: 4thWay’s Quick Expert Octopus Choice Review Offers something different that could add to your current P2P lending. Established in 2016, lenders using Octopus Choice have lent to property borrowers. It’s part of the Octopus Investments group, which manages £6 billions pounds-worth of investments and has been… Read more
The Peer-To-Peer IFISA Guide
We have nagged the taxman’s notoriously tight-lipped officials, and chased down accountants, IFISA providers and even 4thWay’s own skilled experts to give you answers to all your IFISA questions, as well questions you never thought to ask. Here goes: What is an IFISA? An IFISA allows you to lend up to £20,000 per tax year (which… Read more
Best Innovative Finance ISAs In 2021
What are the best Innovative Finance ISAs? I have pulled out all of the IFISAs on the market that meet very high standards and have extremely good prospects for lenders. In selecting the best Innovative Finance ISAs in 2021 – or indeed in any year – I want to see excellent historical results, strict standards when… Read more