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Where Can You Buy Or Sell Existing Loans?

See a list of all the peer-to-peer lending secondary markets, how much they cost and whether you can buy and sell loans at a discount or premium. A peer-to-peer lending secondary market – or marketplace – allows you to buy and sell existing loans after they have already begun. Why would you do this? Because… Read more

P2P Lending And IFISA Cashback Deals Available Now

A P2P lending site should convincingly pass a lot of tests before you trust it with your money. Getting a cheap cashback bribe with your ordinary peer-to-peer lending accounts or your IFISAs is usually way, way down at the bottom of that checklist. You want to assess the risks first and the interest rate compared to… Read more

The IFISA (P2P ISA) Guide

Don’t be fobbed off with cheap imitations of this guide. We have put our blood and guts into drawing out absolutely all of the details of how IFISAs work from 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 questions,… Read more

How Peer-to-Peer Lending Works

We try to explain peer-to-peer lending in What the Heck is Peer-to-Peer Lending? However, it can sometimes be easier in an image. So we’ve created one for you called “How Peer-to.Peer Lending Works – For Investors”. Click on it to open it up. There is a mobile-friendly version underneath.            … Read more

What Is The Difference Between P2P Lending And IFISAs?

Peer-to-peer lending is lending directly to individuals or businesses, including, sometimes, property owners. IFISAs is usually the same, with the advantage that any interest you earn and gains you make are always tax free. However, there can be a minor catch to watch out for. Some things in the world of investing can seem horribly… Read more

Will Lenders On Collateral UK, The Disgraced P2P Site, Get Their Money Back?

Peer-to-peer lending website Collateral UK went out of business in February 2018. It was quickly alleged to be operating without the correct permission from the financial regulator. It now appears to have appointed administrators, who we can expect to wind down the website and existing P2P loans. Whether the permission was correct or not when… Read more

How Is Peer-to-Peer Lending Taxed?

When you earn money through peer-to-peer lending it is usually classed as income, so you could be charged income tax. There are, however, huge tax breaks, including an automatic break for many people, as well as specific peer-to-peer lending accounts that you can open which are always tax free. Key P2P tax rules in bullets Most… Read more

Brief But Good Updates On Proplend, Growth Street…And Sergii?

Proplend Proplend* has given an update on its P2P mortgages to commercial and residential property owners that are leasing out their properties. One loan was repaid about a month late. Lenders earned an extra 20% interest in the month they were waiting for their money back. There’s another loan that is late, but Proplend sees… Read more

Earn Up To £500 Cashback For Lending Works IFISA Transfers

New Lending Works* IFISA customers can earn between £50 and £500 cashback, exclusively through 4thWay, if you transfer cash ISA, share ISA or IFISA cash into the Lending Works IFISA. This is a very limited time exclusive offer. Even we don’t know how long we can exclusively offer it to you for, but the estimate is… Read more

Video: What We Learned From RateSetter’s CEO

What we learned about RateSetter’s experiments Rhydian Lewis, RateSetter’s* CEO, got the chance to present his business recently. I’ve set the above video to start from the point where I think it might be particularly interesting to individual lenders as regards to RateSetter’s own business, especially in the light of its recent misfortunes, which RateSetter… Read more

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Why are Wellesley’s interest rates different?

Wellesley’s P2P lending rates appear higher on its own website than on 4thWay®.

This is because we calculate Wellesley’s interest rates the same way most other P2P lending websites do. We do this so that you can compare the rates more easily and so that they show a more accurate picture of what you’ll earn.

Important information before you visit Wellesley & Co.

Wellesley & Co. is primarily a P2P lending website.

But, when you visit the Wellesley website, you’ll see that it also offers “bonds”. Unlike its P2P lending service, its bonds don’t allow you to lend directly to 100+ borrowers.

Instead, you lend to Wellesley and it lends to other borrowers.

We have not risk-rated either of those bonds, but we expect that their structure makes them more risky, particularly because you’re lending to just one borrower.

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Why are Wellesley’s interest rates different?

Wellesley’s P2P lending rates appear higher on its own website than on 4thWay®.

This is because we calculate Wellesley’s interest rates the same way most other P2P lending websites do. We do this so that you can compare the rates more easily and so that they show a more accurate picture of what you’ll earn.

Important information before you visit Wellesley & Co.

Wellesley & Co. is primarily a P2P lending website.

But, when you visit the Wellesley website, you’ll see that it also offers two “bonds”, one of which is available as an ISA.

Unlike its P2P lending service, neither of these bonds allows you to lend directly to 100+ borrowers.

Instead, you lend to Wellesley and it lends to other borrowers.

We have not risk-rated either of those bonds, but we expect that their structure makes them more risky, particularly because you’re lending to just one borrower.

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Why are Wellesley’s interest rates different?

Wellesley’s P2P lending rates appear higher on its own website than on 4thWay®.

This is because we calculate Wellesley’s interest rates the same way most other P2P lending websites do. We do this so that you can compare the rates more easily and so that they show a more accurate picture of what you’ll earn.

Important information before you visit Wellesley & Co.

Wellesley & Co. is primarily a P2P lending website.

But, when you visit the Wellesley website, you’ll see that it also offers two “bonds”, one of which is available as an ISA.

Unlike its P2P lending service, neither of these bonds allows you to lend directly to 100+ borrowers.

Instead, you lend to Wellesley and it lends to other borrowers.

We have not risk-rated either of those bonds, but we expect that their structure makes them more risky, particularly because you’re lending to just one borrower.

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Why are Orchard’s interest rates different?

Orchard’s lending rates appear higher on its own website than on 4thWay®.

This is because we calculate Orchard’s interest rates the same way most other P2P lending websites do. We do this so that you can compare the rates more easily and so that they show a more accurate picture of what you’ll earn.

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Why are Wellesley’s interest rates different?

Wellesley’s P2P lending rates appear higher on its own website than on 4thWay®.

This is because we calculate Wellesley’s interest rates the same way most other P2P lending websites do. We do this so that you can compare the rates more easily and so that they show a more accurate picture of what you’ll earn.

Important information before you visit Wellesley & Co.

Wellesley & Co. is primarily a P2P lending website.

But, when you visit the Wellesley website, you’ll see that it also offers “bonds”. Unlike its P2P lending service, its bonds don’t allow you to lend directly to 100+ borrowers.

Instead, you lend to Wellesley and it lends to other borrowers.

We have not risk-rated either of those bonds, but we expect that their structure makes them more risky, particularly because you’re lending to just one borrower.

Got it

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