Whois & Analysis for fundingcircle.com

Funding Circle is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that allows investors to lend money directly to small and medium-sized businesses.

Funding Circle was the first website to use the process of peer-to-peer lending for business funding in the UK, and now operates in the UK, US, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands.

As of February 2017, Funding Circle has facilitated over £2.5 billion in loans to small and medium-sized firms.

Small business financing (also referred to as startup financing or franchise financing) refers to the means by which an aspiring or current business owner obtains money to start a new small business, purchase an existing small business or bring money into an existing small business to finance current or future business activity.

There are many ways to finance a new or existing business, each of which features its own benefits and limitations.

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–08, the availability of traditional types of small business financing dramatically decreased.

At the same time, alternative types of small business financing have emerged.

In this context, it is instructive to divide the types of small business financing into the two broad categories of traditional and alternative small business financing options.

In finance, a loan is the lending of money from one individual, organization or entity to another individual, organization or entity.

A loan is a debt provided by an entity (organization or individual) to another entity at an interest rate, and evidenced by a promissory note which specifies, among other things, the principal amount of money borrowed, the interest rate the lender is charging, and date of repayment.

A loan entails the reallocation of the subject asset(s) for a period of time, between the and the .