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  • Zopa pulls out of P2P consumer lending as it blames cowboy firms for ‘damaging customer trust’

    Breaking this a.m.

    Peer-to-peer giant Zopa has started to inform customers it is closing down its P2P consumer investment division, transferring its loan portfolio to its relatively new bank unit. In an email to customers, Natasha Wear, peer-to-peer CEO at Zopa, wrote that “after 16 years of peer-to-peer consumer investments at Zopa, we’ve taken the difficult decision to [...]

  • Non-Standard Finance shares plunge amid £80m equity capital raise

    Non-Standard Finance shares plunge amid £80m equity capital raise

    British lender Non-Standard Finance (NSF) today said it wanted to raise £80m in the third quarter through a share sale that would be backed by its largest investor Alchemy. NSF said the equity raise depended on talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over a proposed compensation payment scheme for customers of its guarantor loans business. [...]

  • Sunday Sitdown: ‘Skittish’ banks need to up their game, says CEO of Ezbob

    Sunday Sitdown: 'Skittish' banks need to up their game, says lending boss

    Following a nightmare year that was hugely disrupted by the pandemic and three subsequent lockdowns, the City is slowly switching into recovery mode as the economy starts to re-open and many sectors are coming back to life. To discuss the way back up, City A.M. sits down with Tomer Guriel, chief executive of Marble Arch-based [...]

  • Lender Amigo swings to a loss, cuts staff and awaits approval of compensation scheme

    February 25, 2021

    Loans lender Amigo sees complaints skyrocket 707 per cent as it swings to a loss

  • Exclusive: ‘Banks should deliver the same experience as Amazon and Netflix’, says Ezbob CEO

    January 21, 2021

    After a year that was hugely disrupted by Covid-19 and the entire economy and its workforce moved online, City A.M. sat down with Tomer Guriel, CEO of Mayfair-based Ezbob, which provides digital lending software to some of the biggest banks and financial institutions in the City. A vaccine is being rolled out, so the City [...]

  • Guarantor lender Amigo flags going concern uncertainty as Covid-19 bites

    November 26, 2020

    London-based subprime lender Amigo reported a 36.5 per cent fall in first half revenues and flagged “material uncertainty” about its future operations, citing worries over the pandemic, complaint volumes and the outcome of an ongoing regulatory investigation. The company, which saw revenues drop to £92.3m over the six months to end-September, also posted a pretax [...]

  • Credit providers must learn to embrace new technology

    August 8, 2019

    Personal finance has a legacy problem. Until now, those who weren’t familiar with its inner workings have never truly understood financial products and services.  A combination of technical jargon and a lack of clarity concerning the impact that certain decisions might have on a person’s credit rating has often left consumers very confused about exactly [...]

  • Fintech startup Wagestream picks up £15m from Balderton and Northzone

    May 20, 2019

    London fintech startup Wagestream has today closed a £15m series A funding round, co-led by venture capital investors Balderton Capital and Northzone. The round was raised in addition to a credit facility of up to £25m Shawbrook Bank. At £40m, Wagestream chief executive Peter Briffett said the total amount raised marks the largest single social impact [...]

  • Alternative finance lender Oakam is trying to help the unbanked

    November 30, 2018

    Payday loan companies get a bad rap. And it’s easy to see why, considering the predatory businesses practices and extortionate interest rates charged by lenders like Wonga, which collapsed into administration this year. High-interest, short-term loans were back in the news this week, with the announcement that the fintech startup Monzo is considering offering such [...]

  • The City helps fuel economic growth right across the country, so be wary of those who want to clip its wings

    October 28, 2018

    One of the most pernicious elements of Labour's current economic platform is the idea that the City is entirely distinct from (and damaging to) the so-called real economy. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell's stump speeches routinely contain attacks on predatory bankers, fat-cats and financial speculators. The labour leader also seems to have a personal vendetta against [...]

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