Covid-19: We’re Home, But Not Alone

The headline tells the tale. See below the short note recently sent to our lenders.

  • The Money&Co. team is now working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Please rest assured that nothing will change and we will be processing payments as usual.
  • With regard to our borrowers, we are in the process of speaking to all of them to assess the impact that the health crisis is having on their businesses.  When we have more information, we will update you further.

In case you missed our blog, this is our message from 17th March (which seems like a long time ago in this extraordinarily fast-moving crisis):

  • As yet, the long-term effects on the global economy are difficult to predict. The knock-ons, though, are easier to see.

There have already been a series of brutal short-term hits to the travel (notably airlines) and leisure industries. The number of pubs in the UK was already on the wane; smaller, weaker airlines such as FlyBe were already in trouble. Hard-line  free-market economists might see this as a weeding out of the weak, and that the market will ultimately take care of us all.

  • Q: How many ultra-liberal free-market economists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. If it needed changing, the market would have done it already.

As for us here at Money&Co., we have already moved to implement alternative working plans to ensure that our services to lenders and borrowers remain unaffected. The challenge is to retain a sense of community and common purpose when face-to-face meetings (the essence and origin of community) become rare, difficult or – in extremis – impossible to arrange.

  • Circumstances have changed, and will change again, but please be assured we have already acted to ensure continuity of service, and will continue to move, plan and react in an agile fashion.

The gyrations of the stock market also cause alarm in some quarters. As we’ve consistently pointed out, one of the great attractions of platform lending is its lack of correlation with equity returns or interest rate fluctuations.

Our lenders have achieved gross yields of over eight per cent across five years of loan facilitation and more than £20 million of funding. Base rates may have dropped yet again, but this will have minimal effect on the returns lenders are enjoying.

The long-term effects are difficult to predict, as we’ve already stated – but rest assured we’ll be monitoring events, and will keep you fully informed.



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