Edward Robinson

• Funding Circle’s chief says the firm is seeing strong growth across geographies and that it has now originated over £4bn of loans in total with £1.75bn in the past year alone.
• Desai says that the Brexit process has not so far derailed demand for P2P loans from SMEs because small business lending is still neglected by big banks who have actually pulled back somewhat since the referendum.
• He ends by saying that Funding Circle is also very bullish on the prospects for alternative lending in continental Europe.

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