The UK Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) was established in 2011 and founding members included Funding Circle, Zopa and...
The P2PFA has added Folk2Folk expanding its membership to nine; Folk2Folk is the only P2P lender in the UK to offer regional branch offices for customers to meet with representatives; the lending platform was authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority in December 2016; it is a secured property small business lender and has lent a total of approximately £134 million ($167.28 million) to small businesses. Source
The UK peer to peer lending trade body, the P2P Finance Association, has released detailed loan book data of its...
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In this blog series, we interview previous LendIt conference speakers to receive an update on their industry perspective and provide...
In an interview with P2P Finance News, Christine Farnish talks about their relationship with the Financial Conduct Authority, the recent departures of LendInvest and RateSetter from the group and updates to membership criteria; Farnish teased that there will be major changes to the way the P2PFA operates coming in November. Source
A groundbreaking new report is being released today at LendIt Europe 2016 in London. Titled “The economics of peer-to-peer lending”, the report was...
The long awaited changes to P2P lending regulations in the UK are finally here. Today, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
I have been in London this week for our third annual LendIt Europe conference. In many ways this was the...
Back in 2011 I covered the news of the very first industry trade association to launch globally. The P2P Finance...
Christine Farnish, the chair of the P2PFA for the past five years, is stepping down and is being replace by Paul Smee. Source