Tagged: altfi

October 27, 2015 @ 1:49 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Last week, Financial Conduct Authority Chair and acting CEO Tracey McDermott visited Parliament last week, and spoke before the Treasury Select Committee on topics including alternative financing sources. She addressed questions of risk for investors in crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending, as well as the role of regulation…. Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 8:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

The regulatory environment is evolving around the world as it adapts to the burgeoning field of internet finance. Eventually, all financial transactions will occur online, yet most national regulators are structured to manage a bricks and mortar world.  AltFi, based in the UK, and Dr…. Read More

September 13, 2015 @ 2:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Global Regulatory Forum on Alternative Finance is the world’s first high-level, thought leadership event focused on the opportunities and challenges that alternative finance presents to policy makers and regulators.  It will convene key decision makers to help instill the ideas that will shape well-designed… Read More

August 6, 2015 @ 1:59 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Interest in crowdfunding from banks and other noteworthy investors including some family offices has steadily increased in recent months, so much that Money&Co blogged, “It’s often said that crowdfunding is in danger of losing the crowd.” Could crowdfunding lose its crowd? How does the industry… Read More

August 6, 2015 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based AltFi will host its second annual AltFi Global Summit for the US institutional investor audience this coming November in New York City. AltFi held its inaugural event in the US last year with solid participation from across the ranks of disruptive finance.  According to… Read More

February 22, 2015 @ 7:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

AltFi Data has launched the first Index to track the returns available from the UK peer to peer and marketplace lending industry. The Liberum AltFi Returns Index (LARI) is described as accurately tracking peer to peer lending returns using complete loan-by-loan cash flows provided by the major platforms. Currently, the Index… Read More

November 3, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Index is called the Liberum AltFi Financial Disruptors Index (LAFDI). According to a public statement, UK based investment bank Liberum and research firm AltFi Data have launched the first equity index tracking the world’s leading financial services’ disruptors.  The new index launches just as industry… Read More

September 13, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

For followers of the peer to peer lending industry this should come as no surprise.  P2P lending in the UK has no passed the £2 billion mark as it continues to surge forward as more consumers, and more investors, take advantage of the more effective… Read More

August 13, 2014 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

2014 – The Tipping Point for P2P Lending P2P Lending has come of age across the globe, with the US platforms leading the way. What happens next? Building on the success of the AltFi Summit Europe, we’re now taking the event global to explore the challenges… Read More