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

What You Need To Know: Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (ITSA)

Last post: Apr 7, 2025

Now that Spring is here, our friends at Seymour Taylor have very kindly allowed us to share their Spring statement which covers crucial information regarding the Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment (ITSA).

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Recent Blog posts

  • Crowdfunding has become a popular alternative finance method, with investors choosing to back a huge variety of projects - but who are these investors?

  • Investors are still considering the likely impact of Funding Circle’s decision to introduce pre-determined interest rates later this month. Many are considering switching their funds to other platforms but, the fact remains, FC offer far more loans – and therefore a greater spread of risk – than anyone else.

  • By The Secret Investor

    My biggest fear with P2P lending has been that, once the 2008 financial crisis became a distant memory, the large institutions will regain an appetite for risk and use their sheer size to squeeze out the Alternative Finance market. But something even worse is beginning to take shape as one of our own moves closer to the “dark side”.

  • Figures collated a day early as the Secret Investor is on holiday

    *All data correct at the time this blog was compiled

    LOANS TO BUSINESSES
    Assetz Capital – £80,000,000 almost
    Funding Circle - £794,425,540
    FundingKnight - £22,711,500
    FundingSecure - £12,715,004
    Money & Co – £6 million approx
    Rebuildingsociety - £7,564,885
    ThinCats - £126,927,000
    Invest and Fund - £1 million plus
    LendingCrowd - £1.25 million plus
    ArchOver - £6,255,000

    PERSONAL P2P LENDING
    Zopa - £1,020,000,000
    RateSetter - £764,613,393
    Lending Works - £13,192,895

  • A report by the Secret Investor

    Crowd funding website Crowdcube are providing additional information to those considering investing in the platform’s mini-bond offerings in the form of a Probability of Default (POD) Rating which is calculated using Moody’s private company risk model.

  • *All data correct at the time this blog was compiled

    LOANS TO BUSINESSES
    Assetz Capital – £80,000,000 almost
    Funding Circle - £775,228,200
    FundingKnight - £22,311,500
    FundingSecure - £10,694,854
    Money & Co – £6 million approx
    Rebuildingsociety - £7,564,885
    ThinCats - £124,545,000
    Invest and Fund - £1 million plus
    LendingCrowd - £1.25 million plus
    ArchOver - £6,255,000

    PERSONAL P2P LENDING
    Zopa - £1,004,000,000
    RateSetter - £746,526,729
    Lending Works - £12,655,668

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