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… Read more
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The Real Reason Zopa Is Closing Its P2P Arm
Zopa has closed its P2P arm to focus on its bank. Zopa wrote to its customers: “Sadly, over the last few years, customer trust in P2P investing has been damaged by a small number of businesses whose approach led to material losses for customers investing in those platforms. Linked to this, the changing regulation in… Read more
Proplend Launches New Lending – Effectively To The Government
Visit Proplend* has only ever introduced one new type of loan in its seven-year history. Everything it has done over the years shows that it prioritises quality lending that it understands above rapidly growing its own business. For just the second time, it’s just introduced a new type of lending: VAT loans. I interviewed both… Read more
Lending Works Trustpilot Reviews By Lenders Are Hostile In 2021
I’ve looked through Lending Works Trustpilot reviews to find all the ones written in 2021 by its customers who have lent money. Trustpilot combines reviews from all customers, making it hard to distinguish between comments from its borrowers and lenders. The overwhelming majority of reviews are from happy borrowers. It’s nice as a lender to… Read more
4thWay’s 10 P2P Investing Principles
Throughout this site, we call lending, “lending”. Funnily enough. But that word can sound a bit casual and easy. Like you’re giving some chums, some fellow neighbours or local businesses, a bit of cash in return for a bit of interest. A simple income on the side where everyone’s a winner. There is a social… Read more
How Does Peer-to-Peer Lending Tax Work?
When you earn money through peer-to-peer lending there are huge tax breaks available to you. For most people there’s an automatic tax break on all P2P lending accounts. And you can also open specific peer-to-peer lending accounts, called IFISAs, which are always tax free. The online guidance on peer-to-peer lending tax that is available from… Read more
Learn From Northern Provident Investments To Stay Out Of Trouble
Northern Provident Investments was a company I’d never even heard of that offered IFISAs. It recently shut down, possibly because it offered mini-bonds, which the FCA recently banned from mass-marketing. Clearly, it was small. It also seems likely it either didn’t offer P2P lending investments or that it was a blend of P2P lending and… Read more
P2P Lending And IFISA Cashback Deals Available Now
There’s not much in the way of generous P2P lending cashback or IFISA cashback deals at present – but one provider is offering up to £4,000 (up to 4%) to new lenders. Further down this article, you’ll see the more modest cashback deals that are available. We’ve also started adding referral schemes or other ways… Read more
LendingCrowd Loses Its 4thWay PLUS Ratings
LendingCrowd* has taken the rare step of deciding to no longer publish its loan book or provide 4thWay with it on a regular basis. As a result of this large step back in transparency, LendingCrowd has lost all its 4thWay PLUS Ratings on all its lending accounts. I’m going to tell you about loan books,… Read more
Assetz Capital PLUS Rating Update
Assetz Capital* was one of the businesses that temporarily paused P2P lending last year in order to offer businesses government-backed pandemic loans, which weren’t available as P2P. It’s now reopening its P2P lending, but it could be some weeks before lenders can put new money into its lending accounts and get lending. Assetz Capital says… Read more