What are the solutions as P2P lending impacted by 'problematic lack of meaningful data'?

As more wealth managers are recommending peer-to-peer lending to their clients, Iain Niblock, CEO of analyst Orca, takes a closer look at why it is not easy to judge investments in this sector.

It has taken a while, but it seems that wealth managers and peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders may have found one another. New research suggests more than half of wealth managers would now recommend P2P to their clients, with a clear flight to the highest quality lending platforms. You may wonder what took them so long to get together - but certain features seem to make them ideal partners. Wealth managers, unlike until recently the nation's financial advisers, have been largely unconstrained in their discretionary allocation of clients' funds in terms of assets. And at a time of low-to...