Month: <span>February 2016</span>

Crowdfunding, or Peer-to-Peer Lending (P2P),  continues to hit the headlines; and for all the right reasons it seems. Recent figures released by the University of Cambridge and Nesta confirm what most commentators had already guessed – the crowdfunding business continues to grow. The report, detailing the progress made by online alternative finance providers during 2015, highlights the …

If you have a couple of hours to spare then The British Business Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets Report 2015-16 will certainly fill them. At 88 pages it covers most aspects of business funding and the issues facing SMEs when trying to secure some. What is interesting is on the one hand the report confirms …