High-Rate Loans From rebuildingsociety This Week

Here are the latest high-rate loans that are open for you to bid on from rebuildingsociety, the P2P lending company that finances riskier loans to businesses. B grade loan to heat treatment company Update: this loan has been extended to 15 January due to the…

13% Loans Secured on Yachts From FundingSecure

Through FundingSecure, you can lend against high-value items from yachts to luxury watches and fine art. The pawnbroking P2P lending company takes possession of the items in advance and it can sell them if the borrower doesn’t pay up. It doesn’t lend more than 70% of the lowest valuation…

Landbay Survives Severe Property Crash Stress Test

Landbay* is the first peer-to-peer provider to focus exclusively on mortgages to the buy-to-let sector. In a recent report  entitled “Democratising Mortgage Lending”, commissioned by Landbay and written by Wrigglesworth Consultancy, Wrigglesworth wrote: “To illustrate the robustness of its portfolio of buy-to-let loans we have stress…

RateSetter Grows Into Business and Property Loans

In a recent blog, Rhydian Lewis explained how his P2P lending company is expanding to lend to more different types of customers. The founder of RateSetter, the largest consumer loans P2P lending company when measure by monthly loans, showed how they have progressed beyond lending to…

Financial Advice is Improving

The financial regulator’s review of independent financial advice has shown “early indications” that advice has improved and some of the costs have come down since a major change in how advisors make money. Financial advisors were banned from taking commission from Pension, ISA and other investment providers two years…

Major Report Into Zopa

This is the Candid Opinion blog, and you won’t see research into P2P lending companies anywhere else as that is as candid as in all the 4thWay® Insight Reports. We’ve just published our detailed research report into the oldest P2P lending company in the world: Zopa. Read…

Pensioners To Get Better Savings Options Than P2P

Generally speaking, savings accounts don’t come close to beating the interest rates being offered by P2P lending companies. However, from time to time you can find good accounts that come close enough to take a look. Great savings accounts for older people National Savings &…

Funding Circle Loans with Cashback This Week

Funding Circle is currently returning cashback to lenders, taken out of the borrowers’ fees, if you take part in the loan auctions listed below. All the loans are listed as A+, which is Funding Circle’s highest grade. Barely a dozen A+ loans out of more…

Landbay Added to P2P Lending Benchmark Index

Landbay, a property P2P lending company with automatic diversification across different regions and a bad-debt provision fund, has been added to the first ever P2P lending benchmark. With the addition of this lower-risk, lower-rate P2P lending company, the 4thWay® P2P Forecast Returns Index has fallen today from…

Major Report into Lending Works

After lots of last minute punctuation and grammar corrections, we finally released yesterday our huge report into Lending Works. This is the P2P lending company that claims to be the safest and we think it might be right. Please take a look at Lending Works’ 4thWay®…

Your Latest Questions & Answers

We’ve had a few questions from you and so we put them to a P2P lending company so you can get answers right from one of the horses’ mouths. Aldwyn Boscawen of Wellesley & Co.* managed to squeeze out some time to answer your questions….

Lending Works Joins P2P Benchmark Index

Lending Works has been added to the 4thWay® P2P Forecast Returns Index, which shows current average expected returns in P2P lending. Lending Works is a small but rapidly growing P2P lending company that is transparent on its rates, so we have been able to swiftly…

£50 John Lewis Vouchers for Landbay Lenders

Landbay, a buy-to-let property P2P lending company, is giving one £50 John Lewis voucher to lenders for every £2,000 lent between now and Friday 19th December, provided you commit to a loan or loans of 12 months or longer. The Christmas offer is available to both new and…

Cloned P2P Lending Websites on the Way

Trillion Fund, which enables you to lend and invest in energy projects, is to allow other websites to clone its P2P lending services. In a marketing move known as “white labelling”, the company will strip its own logo, branding and any other mention of Trillion Fund away, and allow other…

Wellesley’s Provision Fund Shrinks to 1.3x

Update on 5 December 2014: Wellesley’s bad-debt provision fund jumped back up to 1.8 times as amount on loan and protected by the fund dropped £20 million. Wellesley explained that its figures are entered manually, so the big drop was merely a human error. Wellesley & Co’s…

Which P2P lending company really is the biggest?

We took a look at most of the better-known UK-based P2P lending companies to see which is currently the biggest. The answer is: it depends how you measure it. Many of them claim to be biggest in one way or another. Size is not everything, as RateSetter…

Earn 12% Interest as Soon as You Bid with EstateGuru

EstateGuru, the property P2P lending website focusing solely on properties in Estonia, has become the second P2P lending Company to pay interest even if your money is not currently being lent out. In an announcement to lenders, the company wrote: “We are implementing [a] bonus…

Zopa’s New Anti-Fraud Measures

Zopa, the P2P lending company focusing on consumer loans, is now using the same system as international passport control to check for borrowing fraud automatically in seconds, according to its new support partner. Through its partner AU10TIX, Zopa can now check scanned copies of passports…

Zopa: From a Barn to £670 Million

Giles Andrews, CEO and co-founder of Zopa, a consumer loans P2P lending company, was at the recent LendIt conference. His presentation, called “Born in a Barn“, showed just how far the world’s first P2P lending company has come. In ist ninth year, it has lent…

Lending Works’ Insurance Against Losses

Lending Works*, the prime consumer loans P2P lending company, has clarified what its insurance against losses will cover. Lending Works has taken out insurance to cover borrowers who can’t pay, which is provided by three insurers with assets of more than £2 billion. This is…

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