P2P Money Blog

Zopa have today broken the £400millon mark by arranged loans.  This is significant considering that a quarter of these loans were arranged within the last 6 months.  With rates to borrowers having fallen also during this period, we expect this rate to i… more »

RateSetter has today passed the £100million mark in the loans it has arranged.  This is a phenominal achievement and only the only other two companies to achieve this are Zopa and Funding Circle. more »

Zopa have announced they are dropping 1 year loans again.  These loans were originally dropped by Zopa as they were uncompetitive for borrowers, despite some lenders favouring them.  They were brought back at the start of this year, but by Zopa's admiss… more »

ThinCats, the fourth biggest peer-to-peer company by loans arranged, has joined the P2P Finance Association, a trade body setup by Zopa, Funding Circle and RateSetter. Between these four companies, they have arranged over 97% of all peer-to-peer loans,… more »

Zopa launched Safeguard back in May 2013, and they have now taken the decision to withdraw all non-Safeguard lending offers from 11th July.  This change isn't a surprise as non-Safeguard lenders found that their funds weren't getting any matches. Here… more »