Funders & fundraisers of P2P consumer lending by UK regions

This statistic shows the regional distribution of funders and fundraisers on peer to peer (P2P) consumer lending platforms within the alternative finance (fintech) sector in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2014. At that time, approximately 22 percent of funders using P2P consumer lending platforms were from South East UK.

Regional distribution of funders and fundraisers of peer to peer (P2P) consumer lending platforms within alternative financial sector in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2014

Characteristic	Fundraiser	Funder
South East	17	22
North West	14	10
Scotland	11	6
South West	10	12
Yorkshire and The Humber	8	7
West Midlands	8	7
London	8	15
East Midlands	7	7
East of England	5	7
North East	5	3
Wales	4	4
Northern Ireland	3	1

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Release date

November 2014

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

March to September 2014

Special properties

primary industry figures as well as extensive surveys of businesses and consumers

Supplementary notes

The source adds the following information: "Four stages of research activity were carried out from March to September 2014. (1) Stage one involved collecting primary transactional data directly from alternative finance platforms. (2) Stage two consisted of designing and distributing model-specific questionnaires to survey funders and fundraisers of alternative finance. In total 15,658 users were surveyed. (3) Stage three conducted in association with ACCA and PwC included two external national surveys to understand the level of awareness among consumers of alternative finance. 2,007 consumers and 506 SMEs were surveyed. (4) Stage four was the industry-wide tracking survey among UK crowdfunding associations and P2P associations to gather industrial figures for year 2014. Transactional data was collected for quarters one to three of 2014."

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