Talk:Funding Circle

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Can anyone suggest some specific steps towards Wikifying this article? Cheers

AFAs Wikifying .. 1) Include proper Address of HQ. 178.16.4.57 (talk) 07:55, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Suggested edit to paragraph 5

Hi,

I hope you are well.

My name is Jack and I work for Funding Circle as their Customer Communications Manager. We understand a user made some changes to our Wikipedia page on 5 September 2017 which contains a few inaccuracies that could mislead potential and current investors and borrowers. I'm getting in touch to work with the Wikipedia editors to help clear up these inaccuracies in a clear and transparent way.

What would we like reviewed? The fifth paragraph, which starts with “Within the UK, until September 2017”, contains the following:

1) "This means that the platform is much more simple as FC no longer need to publish any loan details or allow lenders to interact with borrowers, and there is no need to publish borrowers accounts, credit ratings etc. This could make it more attractive to borrowers."

This statement is inaccurate. Funding Circle continues to publish loan details, including financial accounts and credit score information, for all borrowers. Investors can see these details in their account summary page.

You can see more information on how we communicated this change to our investors here:

Please see below for suggested wording for this section which reflects this.

3) "This also means the process is opaque - there is no assurance about how FC allocate lenders to borrowers or carry out credit checks etc." This statement is also inaccurate. Every investor can see loan details for every individual business they have lent to. There is full transparency over how funds have been allocated. Additionally, Funding Circle publishes detailed information on its website about the credit assessment process and provides quarterly updates on the performance of the entire loan portfolio.

Source – The performance of the individual borrowers lent to by each investor. Our commitment to this is set out here: see the answer to the question ‘Will I still be able to view the businesses I am lending to?’ Source – The performance of the overall Funding Circle loanbook. See ‘How Funding Circle loans have performed by year of origination'

Why is this misleading? We are keen to amend the above statements because it is our opinion that there is an implication that Funding Circle is not transparent with investors about how businesses are assessed and how loans perform on the platform. We take transparency very seriously at Funding Circle and it is important to us that people do not think we mislead our customers.

Our suggested amends are “Within the UK, until September 2017, Funding Circle permitted investors to either use an Autobid tool or to manually choose which businesses to lend to. In September 2017 Funding Circle withdrew the ability to manually choose with businesses to lend to and sell. Investors are now able to choose from one of two lending options, Balanced or Conservative, when lending to businesses.”

As a footnote, we would recommend this link – coverage of this announcement in our trade publication Peer to Peer Finance Association: Source

Relevant sources In summary, the information that was changed on 5 September 2017 represents the opinion of the user, and we can confirm through the following news and corporate communication resources that the information I have asked to be amended is accurate. Please see here for those sources, including a news article from our industry publication Peer to Peer Finance News, our announcements on changes in this area, which is still live on our website, and our statistics page which sets out key information regarding loans made through the platform. Peer to Peer Finance News article Lending experience Announcement Blog Lending experience Announcement FAQ Lending experience Launch Blog Funding Circle Statistics Page

Happy to discuss further, and thanks for all your help,

Jack Pritchett Customer Communications Manager Bdraggoo (talk) 17:31, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Minor edits to Funding Circle page

Hi,

My name is Jack, and I work on the communications team at Funding Circle.

We've spotted a couple of inaccuracies on our page, it would be great if they could be corrected. In the interests of transparency, I thought I would raise this here, rather than edit them myself!

Founders Angelo Moses Lauria is not a founder of the business

Business model Funding Circle UK no longer offers access to secured property development finance, so can we please remove "(£3M for property development)". We also no longer operate in Spain, so can that reference also please be removed?

Finally, where it says "Funding Circle allows accredited investors in the US to invest using a tax-advantaged Individual Retirement Account and they are planning to allow UK investors to use an Innovative Finance Individual Savings Account."[24] - in the UK, investors are now able to open Innovative Finance Individual Savings accounts, source

Thanks for any assistance you can provide, and please let me know if you have any Qs.

Regards,

Jack Pritchett Funding Circle (talk) 17:04, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Updated. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 08:02, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Potential deletion

This is a major entity listed on the London Stock Exchange. Until recently it was actually a member of the FTSE 250 Index which lists the largest companies by market capitalisation. Per WP:LISTED it is inherently notable. Dormskirk (talk) 21:22, 22 December 2019 (UTC)

• There is a current discussion taking place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Funding Circle (Bes2224 (talk) 21:48, 22 December 2019 (UTC))