P2P business lending: loan amounts 2014 statistic

This statistic shows the amounts lenders have loaned in total via peer-to-peer (P2P) business lending platforms (fintech) within the United Kingdom (UK) according to a survey into the UK's alternative finance market in 2014. Of the lenders surveyed, approximately 30 percent had lent between one thousand and five thousand British pounds (GBP).

How much in total have you lent via this P2P business lending platform?

Characteristic	Share of respondents
less than 500	8%
500null0	8%
1000-5000	30%
5000-20000	26%
20000-50000	14%
50000null00	9%
100000 and more	5%

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Release date

November 2014

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

March to September 2014

Special properties

P2P business lenders*

Supplementary notes

* The source adds the following information regarding the general survey methodology: "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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