Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs has ruled that individuals lending their money through P2P services must pay tax on their lender fees from 6 April 2015. P2P lending website Zopa revealed this in an email to its lenders this evening. Up to this point, lender fees…
With additional reporting by Matthew Howard. The Budget today contained several direct effects on peer-to-peer lending: No tax deducted automatically from savings Over the passed few months, the Treasury has been umm-ing and ahh-ing over whether to ask P2P lending websites to automatically deduct basic-rate income tax…
We needed to fill a few gaps in Landbay’s data in our detailed comparison tables, so today I interviewed John Goodall, CEO. Landbay is one of the safest P2P lending websites, focusing on high-quality residential buy-to-let landlords and properties. It has clear, strict lines in…
I listened to the Money Box interview Neil referred to in P2P Lending is Not Like Picking Shares. (Yes, I’m eight months late too, but I hadn’t even heard of 4thWay® back then.) In that interview, Andy Mullinger of Funding Circle, a business loans P2P lending…
Additional reporting by Neil Faulkner. Lending Works now allows lenders to receive their interest payments directly as a monthly income. This will start from 6 April, which is just in time for our next Lending Works pay checks. Lenders can also choose to receive a combination of interest…
Zopa, one of the safest P2P lending companies and the oldest in the world, has given the vast majority of its lenders higher returns over the past ten years than a large variety of investments, including the stock market and savings accounts, according to its…
Welcome back to those who read my previous article (Follow Me as I Learn to P2P), and welcome to those who have not. In my previous article, I revealed my desire to save/invest after having my curiosity piqued by reading some 4thWay® articles. I am…
Zopa, the oldest P2P lending company in the world – the one that started it all, right here in the UK – turned 10 today. Let’s look into how well it has contained losses, even during the worst recession for nearly a century, and how…
Where is the Bank of England taking us? And how does it trick us into letting it do so? The Bank of England does a quarterly poll to see where ordinary people think inflation is going. It’s last survey was in February. Please allow me to tell…
Unbolted now has a bad-debt provision fund to cover at least the first part of your lending losses. The fund will operate as a trust in the same way as the other P2P lending companies. The new pawnbroking P2P lending company already offers lenders protection…
Until recently, FundingSecure has been bragging that no lenders have lost any of their starting money. But it had to happen eventually. Now, a small number of lenders have collectively lost £512 of their starting money. Presumably all those lenders are up overall, because FundingSecure…
Back on Wednesday, 30th July 2014, there was an interesting interview on Money Box on BBC Radio 4. But I only just listened to it this morning. At roughly 13 minutes in, the conversation turns to one man’s experiences with peer-to-peer lending. That man is…
Lending Works has probably completed around 1,000 loans in over a year. Late payments are inevitable, as are bad debts, and yet, despite the high number of loans, it has only just now got its first late payments. Today, late payments rose from zero to…
This is the second article in 4thWay’s Lending Strategy series that focuses on strategy for a single P2P lending company, and I’ve decided to go with another big one: Funding Circle. As you will see reading the various strategies and techniques below, you can get up…
This guide will be updated regularly with the latest deceptively low risk P2P lending companies – our “hidden gems”. Some P2P lending companies are, in my opinion, hidden gems. These deceptively low-risk P2P lending companies might already have low 4thWay® Risk Ratings, but they also…
This guide will be updated regularly with the latest low risk, market beating P2P lending companies If you’ve been using the easy P2P lending options: You can earn dramatically more interest while keeping your risks low. You need to be willing to put a bit of extra…
Additional reporting by Matthew Howard The University of Cambridge is making a reputation for itself in analysis of P2P lending and other “alternative finance”. It’s focus so far has really very much been on statistics that are of interest to the P2P lending companies, but unfortunately…
Neil wrote about the inevitability of some (not all) bad-debt provision funds eventually failing in his Candid Opinion blog, When The First Bad-Debt Provision Fund Will Fail. That blog was about under what circumstances a (hypothetical) fund can be expected to fail dramatically. Today, I…
P2P lending company Unbolted, a pawnbroking offering that we wrote about in New Peer-to-Peer Pawnbroker: Unbolted, has now got off the ground with four small loans and one very large one. I’ll just summarise these loans now, so that you can get an idea of…
Assetz Capital is a large P2P lending company offering secured business loans, and it has a good record when it comes to bad debts. Now, Assetz Capital is looking for investors to buy shares in itself through Seedrs, a website that enables you to buy shares…
