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

Why SMEs need Choice Business Loans' services more than ever

Last post: Aug 24, 2021

The last 18 months has been a challenging time which has seen the Government back around £79.6 billion in loans to UK businesses over three schemes (CBILS, CLBILS & BBLS). On top of this there was the Furlough Scheme, which is now winding down, and of course the significant grants that were given out.

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Relevant Issues Blog

Thinking about selling your business? This is what you need to know

Last post: Sep 16, 2021

The ongoing pandemic has for many SME owners been a wakeup call. Bruised by coping with the machinations of Brexit and the consequent need for stockpiling, and the ongoing impact of the pandemic on health and the economy, (re)assessing your own retirement plans may now be feeling timely.

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Recent Blog posts

  • A flurry of emails have been sent to Peer to Peer investors in the past 2 weeks encouraging them to invest their IFISA allowance… Ratesetter report that subscriptions to their tax-free savings product have exceeded £200 million in just over 12 months… FundingSecure will introduce a minimum bid on its larger loans to increase investors’ cautiousness… CapitalRise raise £2.2 million of equity funding via the Seedrs platform.

  • Assetz Capital extend the 1% Cashback offer on their 90 Day Access Account until 5th April… FundingSecure announce their intention to list fewer, less risky loans… LendingCrowd hire a new member of staff to improve the monitoring of borrowers in arrears… Ratesetter offer new investors bonuses of up to £150.

  • MostPopularRegionsintheUK

    An infographic that shows the most popular regions to start a business in the UK, number of births and deaths in the year of 2017.

  • Assetz Capital attract £110 million in institutional funding – they claim this will increase the fluidity of their Secondary Market to the benefit of retail investors… Lending Works lock their rates of return at 5% pa & 6.5% pa until 5th May for 3 & 5 year investments respectively… Ratesetter has been included in the Financial Times’ list of fastest growing companies.

  • 4-mistakes-businesses-make-when-borrowing-finance

    It can be easy for businesses to jump into taking out a loan to help finance their next project, employees or restructure, however there are many pitfalls and mistakes when borrowing finance that can damage your financial stability.

    What are the key mistakes businesses make when borrowing finance?

  • Brexit EU

    How do SMEs prepare for Brexit and what will the impacts be?

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