Category: Background

isePankur rebrands as Bondora

April 2nd, 2014
Bondora
The Estonian peer-to-peer provider isePankur has announced it is to rebrand as Bondora.  Here is the email that was sent to customers this morning: During the last 5 years, more than 70,000 borrowers from 4 different countries came to isePankur seeki… more »

Peer-to-peer lending is now regulated

April 1st, 2014
FCA
Peer-to-peer lending is now a regulated activity by the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA).  The new regulations require P2P companies to maintain minimum capital requirements, but there is no coverage by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (F… more »

Companies break milestones

April 1st, 2014
Zopa
There have been three companies breaking important milestones, all within a very short period of time.  Zopa, the first peer-to-peer provider in the world, have just passed the £500million mark in arranged.  Funding Circle recently have passed the £250m… more »

How will the FCA regulation affect the investor?

March 20th, 2014
FundingKnight
Welcome to first post written by Tom Hayward from FundingKnight, a peer to business lender who arrange crowdlending for businesses. It’s been common knowledge for some time now that the crowdfunding industry is soon to become regulated.  We look at how… more »

Peer-to-peer lending in an ISA

March 20th, 2014
P2P Money
The P2P money website broke the news yesterday on Twitter that peer-to-peer lending was to be included in an ISA. "Thelist of qualifying investments of ISAs will be extended to include peer-to-peer loans" #p2plending #Budget2014 pic.twitter.c… more »