On 24 January, I was delighted to welcome many of LendingCrowd’s key brokers and introducers to Edinburgh for an evening celebrating the contribution they make to our platform. Given the date – the day before Burns Night – we also decided …Read More
At Fintech 2018, the fifth annual financial technology conference organised by media and events company DIGIT, hundreds of delegates gathered in Edinburgh to discuss topics including regulation, customer engagement, access to funding and emerging technologies such as blockchain. The two-day summit, …Read More
Source: The Scotsman Alternative finance in the UK has grown rapidly in recent years, from £660 million in 2013 to £3.86 billion in 2016. The term covers a variety of sub-sectors including peer-to-peer consumer and business lending (P2P), equity crowdfunding, and invoice …Read More
Despite the short week, it was a great week for lending as £5.9 million made its way to businesses across the country, thanks to your lending. We also saw 97 businesses come to the marketplace; resulting in £6 million of new lending opportunities.