Sign Up As An Investor

Becoming an investor is easy. Create your account and complete the verification check using your passport or driving licence.

Choose your account

LendingCrowd offers a range of accounts for different ways to invest:

• The Self Select Account lets you choose your own investments
• The LendingCrowd Growth Account (target rate 6%**) invests your funds and repayments for you in a diversified loan portfolio
• The LendingCrowd Growth ISA (target rate 6%**) allows you to invest using a LendingCrowd Growth Account with tax-free earnings

Read more about the different accounts here.

Transfer Your Funds

Whichever account you choose, you need to add funds to your account before you can get started. You can do this by debit card or bank transfer.

Invest in UK Businesses

If you’ve opened a Self Select Account you can choose your investments in our Loan Market, where there are two types of loans listed.

• New loans are put into an auction where investors choose how much they’d like to lend and at what interest rate.
• Existing loans - you can buy loans from other investors on our Loan Market. There is no bidding involved and you can invest instantly.

If you’ve opened a LendingCrowd Growth Account or an LendingCrowd Growth ISA, once your funds are credited to your account, they will be invested on your behalf in at least 20 loans across our Loan Market. You’ll be invested in a diversified portfolio of loans, with no more than 5% of your money invested in any one loan.

Your Investments Repay Monthly

When you invest with a Self Select Account, you’ll receive monthly repayments of capital and interest from each of the businesses you’ve lent to. You can then reinvest this money into other loans to keep earning returns.

Repayments into a LendingCrowd Growth Account or a LendingCrowd Growth ISA will be automatically reinvested into other loans for you, continuously diversifying your investment portfolio and ensuring that your money keeps working for you.