Peer-to-peer business lender Assetz Capital has announced its first ever rate rise across its access accounts.  The rate increase, which takes effect from 1 May 2018 until further notice, will take target interest rates for the Quick Access Account and 30-Day Access Account from 3.75 per cent to 4.10 per

MatchPlace has launched a peer-to-peer Invoice Financing service for companies, called MatchPlace IF. The new service is designed to help SMEs more efficiently manage their working capital by selling their outstanding invoices to investors.   The invoice financing facility allows companies to submit their invoices through the MatchPlace IF platform

Peer-to-peer lender Lending Works has passed GBP100 million in terms of money lent, cementing its position as one of the biggest UK platforms of its type. The milestone comes just over four years after Lending Works was first launched and a year after it broke through the GBP50 million mark.

ArchOver, a P2P business lending platform, is now helping businesses to bridge the funding gap that prevents them continuing to grow their operation whilst waiting for their R&D tax claim to be repaid. ArchOver’s Research & Development Advance (RDA) service is the first provided by a P2P lender funding advances

Assetz Capital has now reached a record number of loans available to investors using its Manual Lending Account (MLA), with well over 200 live loans with loan parts available for immediate investment on the secondary market. The MLA allows hands-on investors to build a diversified portfolio of hand-picked loans that

Scandinavian equity crowdfunding platform FundedByMe, which has a network of 110,000 investors, is expanding into Poland with the opening of a new office in Warsaw on 17 April. The new Polish office, which will be headed by Maciej Gajewski, is the fifth international market location beyond Sweden where the platform is headquartered.

Assetz Capital has launched a 1 per cent Spring bonus, giving investors an additional 1 per cent gross target interest until 30 June 2018. All new funds lent before 4 April 2018 on the Assetz Capital platform will now earn the additional target interest until 30 June 2018.   The

Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has reported record trading on its secondary market which was launched in June 2017 and was opened to all investors, whether previous shareholders or not, for the first time last week.
 Until Seedrs announced the launch of its secondary market, the long-term nature of early stage