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What's going on at Assetz Capital? These news articles, blogs and press releases will keep you up-to-date with what we're doing and what we think.
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Access Account Rates Increase
- September 23, 2022
Aeon Investments agrees £200m funding partnership with Assetz Capital
Bridging and Commercial - August 15, 2022
Assetz Academy celebrates its 6-month anniversary.
- August 1, 2022
Victory Park Capital Announces Investment in Assetz Capital to Help Lending Platform Fund Small Businesses in the UK
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, announced today that it will invest up to £150 million in loans originated by Assetz Capital under a new five year contract. Assetz Capital is a peer-to-peer lending platform that combines traditional loan underwriting with financial technology to efficiently provide capital to small and medium-sized companies in the U.K.
- January 21, 2015
Overseas Investment For Assetz Capital
Chicago-based investment advisor Victory Park Capital has shown its support for Assetz Capital by agreeing a 5 year contract to invest up to £150 million ($228m) in loans for SMEs.
- January 21, 2015
Investing In Green Has Been A Great Success
Assetz Capital has seen the Green Energy Income Account, which lends only to renewable energy projects such as wind farms, attract more than £0.75m worth of investment since its launch late last year.
- January 20, 2015
A New Report on Peer To Business Lending Released
As one of the leading peer to peer Business lenders in the UK Assetz Capital has sponsored an independent and comprehensive report into the peer-to-business alternative finance sector.
- January 14, 2015
A New Invoice Finance Solution Announced For Assetz Capital
We’re proud to announce we will now be offering an invoice finance product, following our most recent partnership with The Interface Financial Group (IFG), one of America’s largest alternative finance sources for SMEs.
- January 5, 2015
Assetz Capital and the Interface Financial Group launch global JV to provide invoice finance services to SMEs
− New Invoice finance solution for SMEs through JV of Assetz Capital and The Interface Financial Group
− Investments can be made from £1, as with the rest of Assetz Capital’s peer-to-peer range
− Returns are expected to be 10% pa gross yield for investors
− 50/50 Partnership signed and product to launch in January
- January 3, 2015
Assetz Capital forms joint venture with US alternative finance provider
The UK peer-to-peer lending market is set for a shake-up with the arrival of US investors targeting companies’ unpaid bills with invoice finance discounting.
The Financial Times - January 3, 2015
MSN Money: Invest in a financial Christmas gift
Do you have no idea what to buy for someone this Christmas? Or do you want to resist giving in to consumerism?
Instead of simply reaching for a gift voucher/card or cold, hard cash, why not give something that will last long after this year’s festivities have ended?
There have arguably never been more options for giving someone a financial gift.
MSN - December 19, 2014
What do you get when you cross a bank with a peer-to-peer lender?
Much has been made of recent tie-ups between big, established financial institutions and up-and-coming peer-to-peer lenders.
Peer-to-peer lending is rightly seen as a different way of doing banking, and so for some, a collaboration between a P2P platform and a bank is a kind of betrayal of principles.
However, from a purely pragmatic point of view, collaborating with banks is practical, pragmatic and – most importantly – helpful for SMEs
- December 9, 2014
Autumn Statement provides tax relief for P2P lenders – but smart investors can already minimise tax paid
Stuart Law, founder and CEO of Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s fastest-growing peer-to-peer lending platforms, commented on today’s Autumn Statement in which George Osborne announced that investors will be able to offset P2P losses against tax from 2015
- December 3, 2014
Forbes: Crowdfunding Comparison - The New Business Opportunity
“We are on the edge of something that is currently quite small but which has the potential to grow much, much larger.”
Forbes - November 28, 2014
Awards season
While awards aren’t the only way we measure our success (satisfied lenders and borrowers are a better indicator of that), it’s great to be recognised for good work by our peers in the industry.
- November 28, 2014
Why “tech bubble” beats “quantitative easing”
The words we use to talk about finance matter a great deal. In “How to Speak Money”, John Lanchester argues that the language used by those in the finance industry is excessively complex – no surprises there – and that this complexity means that ordinary people are excluded from debates around important issues, almost entirely because of jargon.
- November 24, 2014
Assetz Capital promises 7% return from from investing in green energy projects
Assetz Capital has launched the Green Energy Income Account, a new peer-to-peer loan which it promises will deliver investors with a return of as much as 7% a year.
LoveMoney - November 24, 2014
Green light for green loans
If you were to ask someone whether they’d expect to earn a good return from investing in green energy, they might well say no. We’ve come to expect profit to take a back seat when an ethical concern like the environment is involved, and it seems we’d rather become rich in good karma than see any significant monetary gain.
- November 18, 2014
Green light for renewable loans: Assetz Capital launches green energy account
Assetz Capital has launched a new Green Energy Income Account, the first of several specialist investment accounts to be released and allowing lenders to invest in a diversified portfolio of renewable energy projects via the peer-to-peer platform.
- November 17, 2014