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Treasury announce new regulation of P2P lending at Finance Lab Summit

Developments in the peer to peer finance world are continuing to accelerate after the Peer-to-Peer Finance Policy Summit that The Finance Lab held on December 7th, in partnership with Keystone Law and...

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Finance Innovation Lab working with Andy Haldane on diversity in finance

On Friday 1st February 2013, The Finance Innovation Lab will host a small workshop bringing together some of those innovators trying to bring diversity and sustainability to the finance system....

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Peer-to-Peer Finance Summit Summary

The Peer-to-Peer Finance Policy Summit explored the role of regulation in the growth of non-bank finance for consumers and small businesses. Over 80 people attended, including the chief executives of...

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AuditFutures Second Assembly Key Insights

AuditFutures is capturing the passion and commitment of a diverse community and emerging as the voice of innovation in audit. In a modern world of growing information disclosure and rapid technological...

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Spotlight on The Professions: do we need them?

  Richard Spencer Co-convenor of the Finance Innovation Lab, challenges ‘the professions’ to demonstrate they are worthy to continue to exist. What is a profession? Is it just a collective noun for a...

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Impact Investors Catalysing Transformative Change

Finance Innovation Lab co-convener  Jen Morgan captures inspiring insights and trends from a recent impact investment event. Enabling impact. This was the focus for 250 leading incubators,...

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The Three Faces of Financial Innovation, and why we need a Finance Innovation...

The Finance Innovation Lab is an emergent force for systems change, informed by and feeding into the ever-growing alternative finance movement. In my new book, The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance:...

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Birth of the Transforming Finance movement?

Did May 10th 2013 mark the birth of a new movement to transform the finance system into one that serves society, the environment and the wider economy, rather than itself?  This might be a rather grand...

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Transforming Finance: A Charter for a New Financial System

Since the crisis of 2008, the failure of our financial system to deliver benefits for society, the economy or the environment has been a perennial feature of mainstream political debate. But restating...

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Finance, Innovation and Technology: Don’t miss WIRED Money 1st July, London

WIRED Money is an ambitious conference to be held in London on July 1, 2013. Devoted to introducing the innovators transforming finance in the digital age, it will bring together entrepreneurs...

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Peer to Peer Finance Policy Summit – December 7th

In a two weeks time, in partnership with Nesta and Keystone Law, The Finance Innovation Lab will host a high level summit to discuss how to remove policy and regulatory barriers which are stunting the...

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Insights from the Lab’s Summer Drinks

    I’m Pauline and I manage delivery of marketing and communications for the Lab. A couple of weeks ago I hosted my first Lab event – our Summer Drinks. As if taking on my first public role for the...

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The next chapter in finance: why we support the Charter for a New Financial...

Anna Laycock is Ethics Manager at Ecology Building Society, a pioneering mutual financial institution which lends exclusively for sustainable properties and projects. She leads Ecology’s communications...

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9 ways to diversify the finance system

In The Lab’s forthcoming video, Transforming Finance, Andy Haldane from the Bank of England says that policy makers made a great mistake in the years running up to the crash. They mistook...

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Launching Transforming Finance Film – View the trailer

We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of our new documentary – Transforming Finance.  View the trailer in advance of the release on 4th December. Brining together the voices of change from...

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Joining forces to ‘Manifest’ a finance system that works for people and planet…

The Finance Innovation Lab presents Manifest Many of us have sat through endless debates and ‘talk-shops’ which aim to solve the broader challenges facing our current economic system. However these are...

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Why we need a more diverse banking system

Guest blog from Tony Greenham, New Economics Foundation Sixty-three million people, 4.9 million businesses, hundreds of languages, dozens of   religions, 86 counties, 66 cities. The UK is a vibrant and...

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Transforming Finance: innovation, scale and diversity

Julia Groves, a panellist at the premier of Transforming Finance shares her view on the next steps to making change happen. My first reaction to the Transforming Finance film was a common one at...

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Building the Alternative Finance Movement: Watch the Assembly speakers online!

Were you unable to attend the recent Finance Innovation Lab Assembly on Alternative Finance? Based on recent community feedback about accessibility in other regions and due to the extremely high demand...

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P2P finance will come of age in 2014

Tucked away just before Christmas at the end of 2013 were two big signs of the peer to peer finance industry imminent coming of age in 2014. P2P finance was worth £1bn in 2013 The first was the...

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