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Peer-to-peer lending

December 2021

  • A woman looking at the Zopa logo on a mobile phone

    Zopa exits peer-to-peer lending to focus on banking

    Company tells its 60,000 existing P2P investors it will be handing them back their money

February 2021

  • A man looks at his iPhone which displays the RateSetter logo

    RateSetter savers claim investments are being sold off 'on the cheap'

    Small investors say the ‘big boys are making the money’ as Metro Bank takes over their loans

October 2020

  • A man holds an iPhone with the RateSetter logo on the screen

    Peer-to-peer lending: ‘I’m 19,050th in the queue to get my savings back’

    A surge of requests to withdraw funds amid the Covid pandemic has led to a huge backlog

May 2020

  • A pile of UK banknotes

    UK's biggest peer-to-peer lender halves interest rates to prepare for defaults

    RateSetter borrowers seek payment deferrals because of coronavirus crisis

October 2019

  • FCA sign

    Peer-to-peer lender Funding Secure goes into administration

    Pawnbroker’s 3,500 investors waiting to hear how much of £80m in loans will be recovered

July 2019

  • Business people meeting in modern office

    Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle warns over revenue amid Brexit fears

    Platform reins in riskier loans as confidence falls among small businesses

April 2019

  • Chilango shopfront

    Too hot to handle? Don’t be burned on P2P or mini-bond loans

    The collapse of LC&F shows that investments boasting high returns also come with big risks

September 2018

  • Samir Desai, James Meekings and Andrew Mullinger

    Peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle plans £2bn flotation

    Company’s three co-founders in line for combined windfall of £70m

June 2017

  • LEON EDLER for MONEY 170603

    Peer-to-peer lending promised 6%, but I’ve been left red-faced and in the red

    James Patterson hoped his £1,000 investment in Funding Circle would reap returns 10 times more than his bank offered. But 18 months on, he’s losing money

February 2017

  • Man looking at stack off pound coins

    Savers need a balancing act to beat inflation

  • Handing over money £100 2 x £50 notes transaction

    A new Isa is offering tax-free returns of 12% – so what’s the catch?

January 2017

  • Matt Hancock

    Offshore company backs crowdfunding firm run by minister's brother

    Balshore Investments invested in Crowd2Fund, owned by Matt Hancock’s brother, as well as owning stake in YouGov

October 2016

  • O'Connell Bridge at dawn, Ireland

    Circular economy
    Sustainable cities: how can we develop the urban circular economy? – live chat

    Join us on this page on Wednesday 19 October, 1-2pm (BST), to debate the potential of urban areas to foster the circular economy

September 2016

  • Eric Daniels, former CEO of Lloyds Banking Group, in 2010

    Former Lloyds boss Eric Daniels hired by Funding Circle

    Daniels, who had to hand back most of his Lloyds bonus after the PPI scandal, will serve on the peer-to-peer lender’s risk and audit committees

August 2016

  • Patrick Collinson

    Business blog
    Persimmon grabs the headlines but where are the smaller builders?

    Patrick Collinson
  • The Library of Things in London

    International social enterprise
    Is the Library of Things an answer to our peak stuff problem?

April 2016

  • Gold bars

    Where to put your cash while savings rates are rock-bottom

  • From April this year the amount you can earn before paying tax rises by £400 a year to £11,000.

    2016 tax year: what you need to know

February 2016

  • Chair of the Financial Services Authority Lord Turner makes a Mansion House address in 2012.

    Former City regulator warns of potential peer-to-peer lending crisis

  • A pedestrian passes an advertisement featuring a 1p piece

    IMHO ...
    Which is the best peer-to-peer lender?

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