Choice Business Loans Blog

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin.


These are our Blogs about alternative finance, SME loans and the broader business environment

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Peer-To-Peer Lending With The Secret Investor

Goodbye from the Secret Investor

Last post: Oct 24, 2019

The Secret Investor summarises his thoughts after 4 years of writing about his P2P investments. What has he learned, what does he think will happen to the industry now and what will he do from now on?

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Reviews Of The Peer-To-Peer Lending Sites

InvestUP - The P2P Superstore

Last post: Dec 21, 2015

Diversification. That is the key to successful P2P lending but such a strategy, with funds spread across many platforms, can be extremely time consuming. The InvestUP Crowdfunding brokerage has been established to alleviate this problem by enabling investors to distribute their capital across many P2P hosts using just one account. Currently, offerings are listed from over 20 P2P sites in this online superstore of opportunities.

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Special Reports & Infographics

What is marketing - and how it can benefit your business

Last post: Nov 8, 2021

At Choice Business Loans we want to see our clients thrive, which is why we take the time and care to provide them with the right advice when it comes to loan solutions available to them. Beyond smart finances, running a successful SME often includes lots of multitasking and balancing of priorities. One such priority that can be difficult to get to grips with but is hugely important, is marketing. Nicole Martin of Pinpoint Marketing shared with us her top tips on getting it right - and some thoughts on when it may be time to outsource.

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Relevant Issues Blog

Redundancies – What must employers do?

Last post: Nov 8, 2024

In light of the recent budget, we have had a few conversations with clients where they are having to consider making some extremely hard choices about the number of staff the business can reasonably sustain, to ensure that the business remains successful to continue to employ as many people as they can. A choice no business owner relishes making, but one that on occasions needs to be considered.

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Recent Blog posts

  • Invest & Co list 3 month bridging loans that return 21%... FundingSecure recover one of The Secret Investor’s defaulted loans in 6 weeks... Assetz Capital’s 30 day access account attracts £5 Million in first 3 weeks of availability.

  • Assetz Capital add a 30 day access account to their portfolio with a fixed rate of 4.25% pa... Funding Secure investors raise capital to build a record breaking speed boat… Returns at Ratesetter take a dip, is supply outstripping demand?

  • Ratesetter overtakes FundingCircle by lending more than them in the past fortnight… ThinCats list a £3.5 million loan which they claim is the largest ever on a P2P platform that is not secured by property.

  • FundingCircle offer Tablets (computer hardware rather than pills!) to those who make significant investments before 16th May… Assetz Capital believe they are the first P2P Platform to assist a stock market company to raise finance.

  • Like a child desperate for Santa Claus to arrive, the wait for the Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) seems to have been never ending. The countdown to 6th April is over at last but… it’s not Christmas for me yet because none of the platforms I am active on have received the go ahead from the Funding Conduct Authority (FCA) to act as ISA Managers.

  • On your marks… get set… wait! 6th April was supposed to be the start date for the Innovative Finance ISAs (IFISAs) but the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have only given the authority to offer such products to a small number of platforms – none of these are the major names… So the anticipated influx of funds from Cash ISAs will be delayed.

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