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Post by dan1 on Nov 20, 2019 9:00:33 GMT
The two sites entering administration this year, Lendy and FundingSecure, both had charge(s) registered at CH in favour of co-founders, Directors or companies controlled by co-founders/Directors. In both cases, charges were registered within a year of the platforms entering administration.
This begs the question of which other platforms have such charges, and which of those were registered within the last year? Perhaps more importantly should we be concerned, should it be taken as an early warning of trouble?
I'm not too versed in Lendy but in the case of FS the charges were not viewed negatively,... rather the injection of funds from wealthy backers, for which the charge was presumably to protect those funds, was welcomed at the time.
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Post by propman on Nov 21, 2019 11:09:14 GMT
No single answer to the signal from this. However, traditional lenders will usually want a first charge over assets when lending, so any entity providing a charge to Directors has either given up on traditional finance or is only providing a second charge. Liquidators will always look at actions by Directors running up to any solvency event. They can remove the charge if it was not in the interests of the company. That said, if new loans were given and the charge is limited to these new loans and any others due for repayment, then these may well (subject to loan terms) be in the company's interest and so hold up.
As for assessing these, the starting point for platform risk has to be what resources the platform has. I would be surprised if any P2Ps have much of value it is likely to be subcriptions from their backers. I would look to resources at last available accounts, cash burn and notifications of new shares way ahead of Directors charges...
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Post by danraj on Dec 10, 2019 23:38:21 GMT
I don't have a charge over my platform rebuildingsociety.com
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