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

What is marketing - and how it can benefit your business

Last post: Nov 8, 2021

At Choice Business Loans we want to see our clients thrive, which is why we take the time and care to provide them with the right advice when it comes to loan solutions available to them. Beyond smart finances, running a successful SME often includes lots of multitasking and balancing of priorities. One such priority that can be difficult to get to grips with but is hugely important, is marketing. Nicole Martin of Pinpoint Marketing shared with us her top tips on getting it right - and some thoughts on when it may be time to outsource.

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Relevant Issues Blog

10 Tips for Getting Your Business Ready to Sell

Last post: May 25, 2022

What are the most important things that you can do to get your business ready to sell? This is often the first question business owners ask when considering the sale of their company and is explored in this blog from Paul Kaye of Transworld Business Advisors.

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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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