Connected Investing Manchester, the first of four regional events from UKBAA in partnership with Innovate UK, will look at the major shift in emphasis towards regional funding support and lift the lid on the latest initiatives open to both the investor and start-up communities. The Investment conference will take...
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How young people are piling their savings into start-ups in search of business ‘unicorns’ by Nikou Asgari from Financial Times Sahil Bahl, a 24-year-old digital consultant from London, has invested £2,500 in four businesses via crowdfunding websites, ranging from tech start-ups to a coffee chain. The prospect...
Continue ReadingBy David Prosser, Forbes 14 January 2019 With the peer-to-peer finance sector now growing at a rate of 35 per cent a year, increasing numbers of UK-based small and medium-sized enterprises are turning to crowdfunding as a viable source of investment capital. But if you’re thinking...
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This past week, HMRC released numbers on the relatively new Innovative Finance ISA(IFISA) that enables savers to invest in debt based crowdfunding offerings. The UK government indicated that IFISA participation had topped £290 million during the 2017/18 tax year, or 8 times more than the 2016...
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As published in "Guide to crowdfunding and P2P Lending" from FT Adviser, 6 September 2018 To understand how Crowdfunding and P2P finance works To learn about the risks of crowdfunding and P2P finance To learn about doing due diligence on a platform Introduction By Melanie Tringham Melanie Tringham is...
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The UKCFA welcomes the publication of the long awaited FCA review of crowdfunding and p2p lending and welcomes the further alignment of P2P and Investment Crowdfunding regulation. The process of the review has involved giving the FCA unprecedented access to our customer data and senior...
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Author JD Alois, July 2, 2018 Crowdfund Insider In a significant policy move by the UK government, the threshold for investment crowdfunding has been upped to €8 million thus matching the recent change by Germany which announced the same funding limit. This increase is due to a change in...
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Author: Marc Shoffman, July 3, 2018 P2P Finance News CROWDBOND platforms may offer bigger projects from later this month after the government approved legislation to increase the threshold for exemption from the Prospectus Directive from €5m (£4.4m) to €8m (£7.07m). Current EU prospectus rules – which are...
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New hire brings added knowledge and expertise in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and crowdfunding sectors 20 June 2018 BWB Compliance has recruited Dena Chadderton as a Senior Adviser. With wide-ranging experience both as a regulatory consultant and across the financial services industry, Dena will primarily be advising firms in the...
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FinTech North Liverpool 2018 is on next Tuesday 12th June. This event, hosted at the Exhibition Centre as part of the International Business Festival 2018 will feature a full-day agenda of keynotes, panel discussions and showcases. We have a great range of speakers lined up that will...
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