Manchester-Liverpool was ranked ninth in the world’s emerging startup ecosystems and first in the UK, according to a recent report by Startup Genome. The report ranked the top 100 emerging startup ecosystems out of 270 places across the world in 2020. Additionally, as an overall ecosystem, Manchester-Liverpool placed second in the UK. The report looked at a range of factors, including performance, funding, market reach and talent. This North West region ranked particularly well for performance and talent, followed closely by funding. Startups have become a top growth sector of modern economies. By looking at the value of the emerging
Read more →Stock Collateral Loan Benefits: Unlock Liquidity Without Selling Your Shares Utilizing a stock collateral loan can help to diversify your wealth. This form of lending has terms similar to other lending terms in that it has a fixed interest rate. However, the difference is that the lending value depends on a share in common stock rather than a personal asset. Securities lending makes the process that much easier to manage if the borrower defaults on the loan. Until the borrower pays off the stock loan, the shares can remain in the custody of the lender, so it doesn’t put your
Read more →Release Equity From Your Publicly Listed Stocks And Shares The global marketplace is relatively new at dealing with stock loans and stock-secured financing. For a long time, only clients with a high net worth and large international corporation accounts were able to access equity and stock loans – but not anymore. There are more and more people such as company directors and major company shareholders using stock loans to finance other purchases or even just to free up equity from their current stock holding. Here at Platinum Global Bridging Finance, we are working to introduce this product to all our
Read more →When completing on a property transaction, finding the right unregulated bridging loans can prove very challenging. This is not due to the lack of products available, but more choosing from the thousands of products on the market. Finding an experienced lender who can offer a loan that meets specific needs is also hard. Twenty years ago, not many property buyers would have considered bridging loans. At the time, this was due to specialist finance lenders making up a tiny proportion of the wider lending market. After the global financial crisis, however, bridging loans became a popular option for investors in
Read more →1. If you aren’t stock lending yet or issuing stock loans, you should seriously consider starting Some people may be concerned about making their securities available for loan to short-sellers. I am not going to get into the philosophical debate about the merits of short-selling here, but if you think that you joining the market is going to enable short sellers further, think again. There are already over $20 trillion of securities available for loan from a broad array of investors segments around the world, so unless you have a huge small-cap portfolio that’s new to the market, it’s unlikely
Read more →Has Covid 19 Changed The Bridging Lending Market The lockdown period has proven to be a trying period for the property sector. With the UK Government actively discouraging people from moving property, lenders, borrowers, agencies and brokers were placed in a precarious position. Short-term relief measures were introduced to support those affected, but the lack of certainty made it incredibly difficult to prepare for the future. Finally, it looks as though things could be returning back to relative normality. I say relative because we still do not know when social distancing measures will be lifted entirely. Some people are more
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