Auto-switch cash savings account, Kepe, launches to ensure you always get the best deals

Customers can register today for a new savings account, Kepe, which promises to end the ‘loyalty penalty’ by automatically moving cash savings to get better interest rates.

Kepe plans to do for people’s cash savings and cash ISAs what auto-switching has begun to do for household energy bills.  It removes the need to manually search for, and switch to, new accounts once initial preferential rates have expired.

St Mark Homes announces its financial results

St Mark Homes (NEX: SMAP), the housebuilder operating mainly in London and the South East of England, has announced its Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2018.

A quick review of the business

Winner of Moneynet Best IFISA Provider 2018

2018 got off to a fine start for the team at Crowdstacker with the news that we have won the Moneynet Best IFISA Provider award for the second year in a row.

The awards recognise financial services providers which deliver excellent choice, value and innovative solutions for UK customers.  Crowdstacker has been fortunate enough to be honoured with this award twice since we launched our Innovative Finance ISA two years ago.

Crowdstacker has opened a new office in St Albans to accommodate the growth of the business over the last three years.  

Jonathan Littlewood, COO of Crowdstacker, tells us a little more about the new space and what this spells for the business. 

Crowdstacker is entering a new phase of development

The Association at the forefront of the Peer-to-Peer industry welcomes Crowdstacker as a full member

Acceptance as a full member into the industry body, the Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA), is an important step for Crowdstacker.

Crowdstacker receives positive feedback from the P2P industry.

Karteek Patel, CEO of Crowdstacker, explains. 'We like to get feedback about what we’re doing, not only from investors and businesses we work with, but also our peers in the industry. This is why our acceptance as the newest member of the P2PFA is important to us.

Good news for higher (and lower) rate taxpayers. Will you spend, save or invest?

This year’s Budget has been a mixed bag. Although the Budget means the spotlight is firmly on Mr Hammond, the entire Government is under scrutiny to deliver a financial strategy that works for all.

Public services are under pressure, productivity needs to increase to ensure economic growth, and austerity measures put in place a few years ago are still taking their toll.

IFISA-eligible Bond proved a big hit with Crowdstacker investors

Property developer St Mark Homes made two key announcements this week:

From Guy Fawkes to last week’s 0.25% Bank of England rise, amaze your friends with a potted history of interest rates.

Only if you’ve been living on a desert island somewhere off the balmy shores of Penzance will you have failed to hear about the Bank of England’s recent interest rate rise.

And like most of our peer to peer platform colleagues, we at Crowdstacker rushed to produce some easy-to-digest yet incredibly incisive and informative commentary on what this could mean for UK businesses and UK investors/savers.