Alternative finance: transaction value in European countries in 2014

The source adds the following information: "This benchmarking research aimed to capture 85 to 90 percent of all online platform-based alternative financing transactions in Europe from equity-, reward- and donation-based crowdfunding, peer-to-peer consumer and business lending to invoice trading, debt-based securities, micro-financing and community share offerings between 2012 and 2014. In total, the European alternative finance benchmarking survey received 205 survey responses from platforms in 27 European countries. They were combined with the 50 survey responses gathered from the UK as part of joint industry research with Nesta."