The UK Alternative Finance Industry Report 2014

This first comprehensive alternative finance industry report for the United Kingdom, published in 2014, presents the course of growing alternative finance market, as an option different to traditional business or project financing. It includes detailed information on various platforms, such as peer-to-peer consumer and business lending, invoice trading, community shares, equity-based, reward-based and donation-based crowdfunding, pension-led funding, as well as debt-based securities. All platforms are available to funders and fundraisers within the exponentially growing throughout the latest years alternative financial market in the United Kingdom.