See the latest update on the subject below in Update On Kuflink’s Financial Results And Auditor Reports. Let’s catch up on 3/3 4thWay PLUS-Rated P2P lending company Kuflink* – which has had a stern ticking off from its former auditors, Ernst & Young, who resigned. Here are the key points: Kuflink’s former auditors found that… Read more
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Kuflink Enacts Changes In Response To Auditor Concerns On Governance
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
4thWay PLUS Ratings: March 2021 Changes
Loanpad now rated Loanpad* (read review) has earned the top 4thWay PLUS Rating of 3/3 “Exceptional” on its Premium and Classic accounts/IFISAs, after its history reached enough maturity for our ratings calculations to be meaningful. The 4thWay PLUS Ratings are a measure of both risk and reward. Loanpad has the lowest interest rates (rewards) of… Read more
What Happened To P2P Lending Companies That Closed?
I’ve taken a new look at what happened to lenders at the different peer-to-peer lending sites that closed or shifted away from the P2P model. The vast majority of closures have been benign for lenders, leading to a profitable return of their money, but there are a few very notable exceptions. Before I get to… Read more
HMRC Confirms You Can Open Multiple IFISAs In One Year!
We told HMRC that, reading the rules for ISAs, “they don’t actually prohibit people opening multiple IFISAs in one tax year, provided they only subscribe new money to one of them”… Do they? A representative from HMRC has told us this “looks correct”. That’s about as definitive as it gets from HMRC, which is often… Read more
15 Years Of Profitable P2P lending And Beating The Stock Market
We’ve now had 15 full calendar years of P2P lending, which included the Great Recession (albeit for just the one P2P lending company around at the time) and more recently a massive 20% recession coinciding with the first 11 months of the worst pandemic for 100 years. While the stock market has seen five down… Read more
Growth Street Review: Lending Successfully Wound Down
Here’s the Growth Street Review from one of our specialists. (You can see all the reviews in our comparison tables.) 4thWay’s Quick Expert Growth Street Review Growth Street has wound down its existing lending Growth Street, established in 2014 with a total lent of , is no longer taking on new borrowers and all lenders… Read more
Growth Street Lenders Get Full Return Of All Money And Interest
Today, Growth Street said: “We have recently concluded redemption of our platform investors in full as part of the Resolution Event declared in June 2020. As of 13th January 2021, all remaining funds have been returned to peer-to-peer investors and our investor platform is in the process of closing. Well done to the Growth Street… Read more
Recent Movements In The 4thWay PLUS Ratings
The 4thWay PLUS Ratings and 4thWay ALT Ratings have been showing their worth during the pandemic and we strongly expect they will continue to do so. P2P lending doesn’t evolve around the world of COVID-19, though, so there have been a few changes to 4thWay PLUS Ratings in recent weeks for more mundane reasons. Kuflink… Read more
P2P Lending And COVID-19: Lots Of News And Updates, Nov 2020
It’s been a lot of work trying to stay on top of all the P2P lending companies for you during the pandemic. as we sought extra information, meetings and data submissions from the P2P lending companies. Here’s a summary of much of our recent research. These COVID-19 updates are shown in the order they appear… Read more