Tagged: lendingcrowd

May 14, 2019 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

LendingCrowd, the only online lending platform based in Scotland, has launched two new features designed to boost diversification for investors’ portfolios. LendingCrowd states that investors in their Growth Account and Income Account, both available as an IFISA, can already create diversified portfolios of loans to… Read More

June 25, 2018 @ 12:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, LendingCrowd CEO and cofounder Stuart Lunn published a pointed blog post addressing recent changes to the “operating principles” as set forth by the UK Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA). LendingCrowd is currently not a member of the P2PFA. Lunn stated in the post;… Read More

June 1, 2018 @ 9:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendingCrowd, one of the UK’s fastest-growing alternative finance lenders to the SME market, announced on Friday it is on course for continued expansion after completing loan deals totaling to more than £3 million during May, marking the p2p lending platform’s best month ever. The company also reported… Read More

March 28, 2018 @ 2:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendingCrowd, one of the UK’s fastest-growing alternative finance lenders to the SME market, announced on Wednesday it secured £2 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Equity Gap and included a number of prominent private investors from Scotland’s entrepreneurial and finance scene and the… Read More

February 16, 2017 @ 8:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendingCrowd, one of the UK’s fastest-growing alternative finance lenders to the SME market, announced on Thursday it launched one of the first Innovative Finance ISAs (IFISAs) by a peer-to-peer lender with a target rate of return of 6% a year. The online lender revealed that with… Read More

November 3, 2016 @ 12:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based alternative finance lender for SMEs, LendingCrowd, announced on Thursday it has received full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and considers itself UK’s second peer-to-peer lending platform and first peer-to-peer lender for SMEs to move from interim to full authorization status, which went into… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 11:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, UK-based alternative finance lender for SMEs, LendingCrowd, announced the launch of its new P2P deal to investors. The platform stated that by investing £5000, investors will get a 2.5% joining bonus allocated to their accounts and access to a lending platform that achieved… Read More

June 17, 2015 @ 2:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seema Paterson, head of corporate affairs at Edinburgh’s peer-to-peer lender LendingCrowd, has been appointed director of UK Crowdfunding Association. According to DailyRecord, Paterson joined LendingCrowd last December from Tangent Communications Plc, where she was head of corporate development and investor relations. Prior to Tangent, Paterson was a managing director of… Read More