The Case Of The FCA vs Crowdfunding The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are starting to make their mark on the UK financial industry. In the last few years the UK has seen an unprecedented level of financial innovation. The market is seeing more new entrants, privately funded lenders, peer to peer and crowdfunding platforms. Crowdfunding
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Banking Regulation Maybe not top of your current affairs reading, maybe not even top half. For most people, business owners included it probably falls into ‘the last thing I want to read’, but it actually is quite important. Over the last few year we have become accustomed to bank bailouts. Add to that, banker bonuses,
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The British Bankers Association (BBA) is today thought to appease critics over thoughts it has not done enough with a scheme aimed at appeasing Vince Cable. The BBA are set to announce at it’s annual dinner tonight (22nd July) that it will publish business lending statistics in postcode format. This follows accusations that it has
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We are all aware that the base rate of interest remains at an all time low of 0.5%, lending should therefore be more affordable than ever for the majority of businesses. So why have so many banks locked their customers into Hedging Products which mean the customer is paying so much more? Hedging is about
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