Tagged: zopa

September 29, 2014 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zopa, one of the leading peer to peer lenders in the UK has taken to the streets of London to promote the benefits of their services.  Now lending and borrowing money is serious business but leave it up to the Brits to find some humor… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

AltFinance News celebrated innovation in finance yesterday with their AltFi Awards 2014. The ceremony was held at the Vinopolis in London and recognized a diverse group financial industry participants including crowdfunding and peer to peer lending sites.  The big winner for the night was RateSetter… Read More

May 19, 2014 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has been joined by peer to peer (P2P) lenders Zopa and Funding Circle in being recognized by the Smarta Breakthrough 50 awards. These awards, sponsored by Santander, are designed to “shine a light” on the most inspiring businesses in the United Kingdom…. Read More

May 16, 2014 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Zopa, one of the largest P2P platforms in existence having loaned over half a billion pounds on their platform, has published a “Moneyfesto” gunning for the usurious financial structure many (not all – mind you) credit card companies employ to squeeze their customers…. Read More

April 26, 2014 @ 9:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing exciting news to its fans, leader of crowdfunding in concerts and the world’s first social booking platform, RABBL announced earlier this week its’ latest website addition, Fan Rabbls. The new service will allow fans to prove real demand for their favorite musicans and puts… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 2:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

P2P Lending Booms as Banks are Cut Out. According to Zopa, the fast growing peer-to-peer lending platform has now lent over £500 million  (Over $813,000,000).  Hurdling the half billion mark clearly places P2P lending in the mainstream of finance in the UK. In the past… Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Seven of the UK’s largest crowdfunding platforms have teamed up to launch alternativebusinessfunding.co.uk, a new web portal aimed at providing SMEs with “a free and easy way for SMEs to find alternative business funding.” Crowdcube, Seedrs, Zopa, Funding Circle, MarketInvoice, Platform Black and Pensionledfunding.com are… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

The Guardian has put together a very practical list of all the major P2P lenders in the United Kingdom.  The UK has been at the forefront of the P2P crowdfunding industry and the companies participating in this new sector have experienced dramatic growth. The major… Read More

February 1, 2014 @ 7:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

London-based peer lending platform Zopa has closed a £15 million funding round led by Arrowgrass Capital Partners. Augmentum Capital, Wellington Partners and Balderton Capital also took a stake. As part of the deal, Arrowgrass CEO Henry Kenner will receive a seat on the board. Zopa… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Zopa is the UK’s largest peer-to-peer lending service, and one of the company’s co-founders has made a pretty amazing prediction about the size of the peer-to-business lending market in Ireland. In an interview with The Irish Times, Simon Deane-Johns predicted that peer-to-business lending throughput in… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 11:01 am By JD Alois  |  

In a report filed earlier this week from the Liberum AltFi Index, the crowdfunding industry including both debt and equity, has surpassed the £1 billion “milestone”.  The alternative finance sector categorized as P2P,  equity crowdfunding and invoice lending was quoted at £,028,340,769 as of December… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 4:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Finance Innovation Lab is believes in the need to innovate across the whole financial system at once for change to happen.  Supported by a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Finance Lab has produced a video about what is broken with today’s banking… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 2:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

In multiple reports, Chancellor George Osborne is said to allow tax free returned from peer-to-peer lending platforms like Zopa, Funding Circle, LendInvest and others.  Savers have been able to increase their rate of return by participating in these platforms thus cutting out traditional banks in… Read More

August 19, 2013 @ 9:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Based near Manchester, eMoneyUnion is a Peer to Peer Lending Platform that Serves Non Standard Borrowers in the United Kingdom.  CEO Lee Birkett recently sat down for an interview on Crowdfunding Podcast. eMoneyUnion presents pre-approved borrowers to lenders acting as a peer to peer loan… Read More

July 6, 2013 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The United Kingdom’s largest peer to peer lending site Zopa has announced they expect to be offering business loans soon.  Presently their platform is designed to support peer to peer personal consumer loans matching borrowers to investors. Zopa has been in business for over 8… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 11:10 am By HeraldScotland  |  

IT was once a case of hoping for a sympathetic bank manager to back the next big idea. Now everyone from scientists to artists is turning to crowdfunding – appealing on the internet for ordinary people to back their dream project with cash. One of… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 1:37 pm By Forbes  |  

Crowdfunders generally fall into different categories: equity, donation, reward, and debt. The last is also known as microfinancing — and commonly referred to in Europe as “peer-to-peer lending.” Here are the top 10 up-and-coming peer-to-peer lenders e making financial waves in Europe: 1. Zopa –… Read More

April 21, 2013 @ 5:12 am By Independent.ie  |  

HE was the man who launched Dublin’s Laughter Lounge comedy club, but Peter O’Mahony is finding nothing funny about Irish banks’ refusal to lend money. So the entrepreneur is about to introduce Crowdfunding to Ireland following its success in the US and Britain. “Basically, it’s… Read More

March 9, 2013 @ 8:28 am By Scotsman  |  

Frustrated savers are ditching high street providers and turning in rapidly growing numbers to online lending after watching cash returns plunge in recent months. Peer-to-peer or social lending firms offering savings rates double those available from banks and building societies have reported surging demand as… Read More

February 8, 2013 @ 8:09 am By Presseurop  |  

I have started making loans to total strangers – scores of them. I am not mad, rich or philanthropic. The loans are tiny. The safeguards are good. So far, the borrowers are paying me back and I am turning a handy profit. Even nicer, I… Read More