LandlordInvest’s Bridging & Development Loans are currently unrated. LandlordInvest’s own data shows it hasn’t approved a new loan for two years, but in June 2026 it announced new ownership and lending to restart. Visit LandlordInvest or keep reading the LandlordInvest Review. But note that, as…
Blend’s Development And Property-Secured Business Loans are unrated, due to lack of information. These loans have been paying lenders around . Visit Blend or keep reading the Blend Review.
What are the best Innovative Finance ISAs? The best innovative finance ISAs are these, which offer a market-leading risk-reward balance: CapitalRise IFISA. (Minimum £1,000 per loan.) CapitalStackers IFISA. (Minimum £2,500 per loan.) Housemartin IFISA. (Minimum £1 per loan.) Loanpad IFISA. (Minimum £0.01, spread across 100s…
Crowd2Fund’s Business Lending is unrated, due to lack of data. There’s not enough information to estimate lending rates after losses from bad debts. Visit Crowd2Fund or keep reading the Crowd2Fund Review.
My team and I have been assessing P2P lending accounts since 2014 and we continue to have an outstanding record. (We won’t always get all the most important calls right – that’s impossible in investing – but we expect that we almost always will.) My…
Invest & Funds accounts are unrated. The standard account and the IFISA have been paying , according to Invest & Fund. Visit Invest & Fund or keep reading the Invest & Fund Review.
We’ll show you: Why buying and selling loans won’t always be speedy, and can sometimes be nigh-on impossible. What the delays cost you and how long they might last. The silver lining: that your risks actually come down due to slow lending and good investing…
CrowdProperty’s Bridging & Development loans are unrated. This account has recently been paying lenders interest before bad debts. Visit CrowdProperty or keep reading the CrowdProperty Review.
I was hoping to do an update on Kuflink in November after getting sufficient answers to a number of outstanding queries, as well as corrected data. Unfortunately, those answers are not all in yet, but there’s more immediate news for me to update you on….
For those of you have just read Can A P2P Lending Provider Be Too Profitable? by Neil Faulkner, I have compiled a list of some of the pages we follow when online lending and investment providers file their company accounts at Companies House: AxiaFunder (Champerty…
The last time we updated our piece on profitability (Which P2P Lending Sites Are Profitable?) I received the comment: “There is a flipside, the more the platform is making, the more they are taking from the lenders who actually fund the loans. And once Lendy was…
In 4thWay’s main update published this week, I wrote about how the financial regulator has put restrictions on Kuflink, due to failings in governance. “Governance” basically means managing the business in a proper way, with sufficient safeguards for lenders and others. One of the issues…
This review is temporarily down Normally, when 4thWay’s specialists reassess peer-to-peer lending providers and other online direct lending providers on behalf of individual lenders, the new assessment is put up on the 4thWay website with no downtime in between. However, perhaps once per year on…
LANDE* was the first ever P2P lending company in either the eurozone or continental Europe to be fully assessed by 4thWay. Lenders using LANDE have lent since 2020. What does LANDE do? LANDE’s borrowers are Latvian, Lithuanian and Romanian businesses – almost all farmers. Loans…
Today, just a reeeeeaallly quick look at a couple of the changes to 4thWay’s complete list of all P2P lending and other online direct lending providers. Because a few of the changes leaped out at me over the past few weeks: LandlordInvest is “out” This…
On second-charge loans approved on or after 1st November 2025, Somo* is providing 10% first-loss protection on the money you lend. The total Somo will ever pay out for the guarantee is capped at £1.2 million. Somo’s guarantee cuts in when all reasonable attempts to…
Unbolted’s IFISA And Classic Account are Unrated, because we don’t receive sufficient data to conduct our full assessments. Unbolted has only sporadically provided information and sparse data to 4thWay. Lenders seem to be offered around after bad debts, if you re-lend your loans and interest….
Can you believe the world’s banking regulators actually let this happen? Risky lending triggered the 2008 financial crisis, so regulators banned the big banks from doing it. But then those same regulators allowed the banks to lend money to non-bank lenders—who could still make the…
We’ve had a loooot of emails from lenders about recent changes at Kuflink, as well as one or two about bad debts. I’ve finished my investigations into the changes and re-interviewed key people at Kuflink. I’ve also done some preliminary research on bad debts in…
Annualised returns after costs and losses have averaged 7.49%, with no losing months. The graph above is not smoothed but actual results over time. I note that, if all write-offs from bad debts were squashed into the same period of time, it would have meant…
1. Stock-market comparison is based on FTSE 100 total returns data from Curvo and Investing.com, after estimated wrapper and fund costs, fees and expenses of 1%, which is conservative compared to most share investors’ frictional costs.
2. FTSE 100 total returns after costs1 saw share investors with a smaller investment pot on 31st October, 2020 than they had over six years earlier, on 31st July, 2014.
3. “P2P” means the platform model is based on article 36H P2P agreements. “DL” means the platform operates using one of several other direct lending models, or models that effect the same for investors.
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