Alternative finance

News and opinion about alternative finance including analysis on crowdfunding, private equity and seed capital.

Now nudging £5 billion a year, peer-to-peer and crowd lending platforms have entered the mainstream during a post-financial crisis era [...]

March 6, 2019

When Cormac Leech, chief executive of new crowd funding litigation platform Axiafunder, is questioned about the potential 20-30 per cent [...]

February 11, 2019

A property investor is offering small retail investors the chance to buy a slice of east London property after launching [...]

September 8, 2015

It's September. Fresh-faced graduates are buying their first suits, working out their daily commute and learning how to use the [...]

September 4, 2015

Harriet Green talks to GLI Finance’s Louise Beaumont on how alternative finance is changing the landscape of fundraising for SMEs [...]

September 3, 2015

With just a tap of your phone – or even your watch – it’s never been easier to pay people [...]

September 1, 2015

PRIVATE equity investment into UK small and medium sized firms hit a two year high in the first half of [...]

August 31, 2015

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Zopa has announced that former chief financial officer Jaidev Janardana has been promoted to the top spot [...]

August 30, 2015

Something momentous has happened to the UK peer-to-peer lending industry, as the government finally confirmed its plans to introduce a [...]

August 26, 2015

What's the connection between charities and alternative finance? Currently, the answer is not a lot – charities are often big, [...]

August 20, 2015

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