What is Peer to Peer Lending?

What is Peer to Peer Lending?

Peer to Peer Lending (also referred to as P2P or P2B – Peer-to-business) is the practice of borrowers taking out loans from individual investors who are willing to lend their own money for an agreed interest rate. It has become so popular in recent years (thanks...
Peer to Peer Lending: How to mitigate/mollify risks

Peer to Peer Lending: How to mitigate/mollify risks

Being a relatively new form of investing, many savers are understandably a bit nervous of putting money into a Peer to Peer Lending scheme. What if it all goes wrong, they ask themselves. And why shouldn’t they? Traditional banks and building societies haven’t exactly...
Ways to Earn Interest on Your Pension

Ways to Earn Interest on Your Pension

How much money will you need to live comfortably in retirement? It’s a question many of us ask ourselves and it’s not easily answered. Certainly, it’s not a case of plucking a figure out of our heads – budgeting comes heavily into it. Luckily, consumer sites such as...