Generally speaking, savings accounts don’t come close to beating the interest rates being offered by P2P lending companies. However, from time to time you can find good accounts that come close enough to take a look. Great savings accounts for older people National Savings &…
HM Treasury has concluded a two-month consultation on the best way to implement the inclusion of P2P loans with ISAs. Various options are being considered including creating a third type of ISA or including P2P lending as an option within a stocks and shares ISA….
Funding Circle is currently returning cashback to lenders, taken out of the borrowers’ fees, if you take part in the loan auctions listed below. All the loans are listed as A+, which is Funding Circle’s highest grade. Barely a dozen A+ loans out of more…
Landbay, a property P2P lending company with automatic diversification across different regions and a bad-debt provision fund, has been added to the first ever P2P lending benchmark. With the addition of this lower-risk, lower-rate P2P lending company, the 4thWay® P2P Forecast Returns Index has fallen today from…
This article was corrected on 14 December. Previoulsy, we had recorded Wellesley’s new one-year rate as 4% (before cashback) when it should have been 3%. On Monday 15 December, Wellesley & Co., a property P2P lending company with a zero bad debt record and a bad-debt…
After lots of last minute punctuation and grammar corrections, we finally released yesterday our huge report into Lending Works. This is the P2P lending company that claims to be the safest and we think it might be right. Please take a look at Lending Works’ 4thWay®…
This is the Candid Opinion blog and now it’s time to be candid about the 4thWay® Risk Ratings. We’re proud of our scoring system and we’ll only get more proud as it proves itself and as we improve on it. The feedback we’re getting from the…
We’ve had a few questions from you and so we put them to a P2P lending company so you can get answers right from one of the horses’ mouths. Aldwyn Boscawen of Wellesley & Co.* managed to squeeze out some time to answer your questions….
Alongside our article on some very interesting changes coming this week at Bondora, the European P2P lending company, and my blog showing my opinions, here’s our Q&A with the chief executive officer and founder, Pärtel Tomberg. If you struggle with any technical or other difficult…
New P2P lending company Fruitful launched quietly a couple of weeks ago to “invited” lenders with a promise of a minimum of 5% above Bank of England base rate. It currently pays 6%. When Fruitful becomes more widely available, it will provide protection to your…
In a recent report for Landbay, Andrew Hagger of MoneyComms set out his concerns for the P2P lending industry and for individual lenders as the industry grows, as well as his solution: “It’s vital that robust risk management procedures are maintained as the sector expands. “With…
Andrew Hagger of MoneyComms, formerly a spokesperson for Moneyfacts, has written a report into P2P lending, commissioned by Landbay. Hagger set out his views on the sort of P2P lending companies you should lend through if you’re new to P2P lending, and which specific companies fit the bill: “If I…
I wrote this morning* about the latest news from European personal loans P2P lending company Bondora, which UK lenders can use to lend to borrowers in other countries. In a moment I’ll share my thoughts on Bondora’s changes and there’ll be a dark interlude into doctors killing patients,…
Bondora, the European personal loans P2P lending company, has devised a system to make it easier for lenders in the UK or elsewhere to compare the risks of lending across Europe, including in countries with far higher interest rates. To do this it will soon being…
It’s all very well us telling you to spread your risk – diversify – across dozens or hundreds of loans, but what if a P2P lending company you’re interested in doesn’t have enough loans? Other than walking away, I think you have five choices: 1….
Funding Circle, the oldest and largest business and property P2P lending company in the UK, has conducted analysis on how well lenders are able to sell their loan parts to other lenders when they want to get out early. Selling business loan parts Roughly 70%…
Lending Works has been added to the 4thWay® P2P Forecast Returns Index, which shows current average expected returns in P2P lending. Lending Works is a small but rapidly growing P2P lending company that is transparent on its rates, so we have been able to swiftly…
Landbay, a buy-to-let property P2P lending company, is giving one £50 John Lewis voucher to lenders for every £2,000 lent between now and Friday 19th December, provided you commit to a loan or loans of 12 months or longer. The Christmas offer is available to both new and…
Funding Circle is currently returning cashback to lenders, taken out of the borrowers’ fees, in the following loan auctions: A+, residential property development loan for 16 months in Cheshire Offering 1.5% cashback. The auction will be over by 10am on Wednesday 10 December at the latest. This…
Trillion Fund, which enables you to lend and invest in energy projects, is to allow other websites to clone its P2P lending services. In a marketing move known as “white labelling”, the company will strip its own logo, branding and any other mention of Trillion Fund away, and allow other…
