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Nesta Releases Alternative Finance Report 2014
Nesta, an independent innovative UK charity, in association with the University of Cambridge has published ‘Understanding Alternative Finance: The UK Alternative Finance Industry Report 2014’. The report with support from the UK Crowdfunding Association and the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association, offers a glimpse into 9 broad alternative investment models: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Business Lending Invoice Trading Community Shares Reward- Based Crowdfunding Donation-Based Crowdfunding Peer-to Peer Consumer Lending Equity-Based Crowdfunding Pension-Led Funding Debt-Based Securities The report is broken up into 4 main sections. The first section provides an overview of alternative finance. Nesta then looks at the general awareness of alternative investments in… continue reading