Financial Times: Do we still want to democratise finance?

A report looking at the UK alternative finance industry by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance is featured in a Financial Times article on peer-to-peer lending regulation. According to the report, “in 2016 £1.23 billion of loans were provided to small businesses in the UK – equal to 15 per cent of all new SME loans by banks – and similar amounts of consumer and property loans.”(subs)

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