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

  • One lender will now lend against leasehold premises. Read here to find out more.

  • The Co-op are pulling back from the SME sector.

  • There are an increasing number of peer-to-peer lenders appearing on the scene as the main high street banks continue to be less than supportive in providing finance to some small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Assetz Capital is one such P2P lender and we have examined what they do to write this review which we hope will be helpful.

  • Aldermore Asset Finance has now included in its offering and is now accepting proposals for financing soft assets.

  • A new product allowing peer to peer investors lend to Buy to Let mortgages.

  • Invoice finance can work in a number of different ways. Before we answer what is CHOCS for invoice finance it is worth recapping the two primary methods currently used when financing invoices: Invoice Discounting and Factoring.

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