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

  • In this week’s budget, Chancellor George Osbourne announced that investors will be able to save up to £20,000 per year in an Innovative Finance ISA from April 2017, up from the 2016 limit of £15,240… FundingSecure continue to set new records for activity on their site… Assetz Capital review their investor decision making processes.

  • We’ve taken a look at how payment methods have evolved dramatically over the years as we continue to move into a generation of Contactless & Apple Pay.

  • Ratesetter cause controversy admitting to using part of its Provision Fund to provide liquidity in their loan market – a decision now reversed… The Secret Investor moves his monthly deposit into a Cash ISA to deploy via an IFISA after 6th April… Bridging loans cause rapid growth at FundingSecure.

  • It was with some disappointment that the Secret Investor discovered that the HMRC were not going to allow existing funds that had been invested in P2P Lending to be transferred into Innovative Finance ISAs (IFISAs).

  • Zopa plan to offer products with higher risks/returns to their retail customers… ArchOver have listed what they believe to be the largest non-property backed P2P loan on any platform…LendingCrowd are also setting records, with the listing of their biggest ever loan.

  • Assetz Capital are set to boom in 2016 with £6.6 million worth of capital handed over to borrowers in the past fortnight. They also have a strong pipeline of loans… Meanwhile FundingCircle continue to go from strength to strength, lending £30 million in the last couple of weeks.

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