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

  • Since their launch in August 2010, Funding Circle have become hugely popular as a viable means for British SMEs to raise up to £100,000 unsecured finance.

  • *** Please note: In October 2013, Wonga for Business rebranded as Everline.com The facts in this article remain correct for Everline.com even though they refer to Wonga for Business ****

  • It is a tough market place for businesses to trade in these days both from a perspective of attracting new business and funding the contract from cash flow. Traditionally, for those businesses without sufficient liquid funds, they would often arrange an overdraft facility but this option is becoming increasingly difficult as the major high street banks have tightened up their lending policies.

  • Since their launch in 2010 Funding Circle have made tremendous strides in lending to UK SMEs. At the time of writing over £80m in loans have been channeled from lenders to UK businesses via their platform.

  • You will no doubt be aware that there are several peer-to-peer commercial lenders in existence here in the United Kingdom with this type of lending scheme coming into prominence in recent years.

  • Invoice discounting and invoice factoring are two similar terms that are sometimes interchangeably used but there are minor differences between the two. Both are forms of invoice financing wherein a company’s accounts receivables are used for borrowing money.

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