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Our final treat this afternoon is to join up with the Financial Times for Serious Money with Claer Barrett. Claer is Personal Finance Editor of the FT and edits tomorrows 'FT Money' part of the bumper saturday edition of the paper.

This is Crowdfunders on Share Radio, the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance, hosted by Share Radio’s Senior Analyst, Ed Bowsher. In today's show: A new innovative finance ISA that is launching this week, and Ed talks to the bosses of the Abundance and Thincats platforms. We also have a 'platform profile' on Lendinvest. Starting with the innovative finance isa - the idea is that you can lend money on the well-known peer to peer platforms - people like Zopa and Ratesetter - and you won't have to pay any income tax on the interest you earn. Trouble is, the isa is launching this week, but loans on the big platforms aren't eligible for an isa. So to find out more, Ed spoke yesterday to a real alternative finance expert, Bruce Davis, who's been on Share Radio many times. He also runs the Abundance platform. He started by asking Bruce: 'why on earth aren't most platforms eligible for the ISA, what's going on?'

This is Share Radio's regular focus on investing in smaller companies. Our man with enthusiasm for the sector and a wide portfolio himself is David Stredder, CEO of Sharesoc. This time around he talks Lakehouse, technology group accesso and much more

This is Crowdfunders, the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance. In today's show, Ed Bowsher speaks to a new debt crowdfunding platform which plans to raise money for renewable energy projects and a range of other businesses too, plus much more.

This is 'Crowdfunders', the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance with Share Radio Analyst Ed Bowsher. In today's show, he looks at a move by crowdfunding site, Syndicate Room, into conventional stock market investing. The idea is that you'll be able to invest via Syndicate Room in companies that are about to list on the stock market, as well as the normal crowdfunding investments that are already on Syndicate Room. Plus he will be talking to Zopa to get more detail about their new product line-up which, for the first time, includes higher risk loans on Zopa. Plus more…

A pensions victory for Money Mail and This is Money. George Osborne won't be making any major pension changes in next week's budget. But what will the Chancellor announce next week? And new rules will soon let most people earn £1,000 interest tax-free - yet can anybody explain how this will work?!

Holly Mackay from Boring Money website, joins Ed Bowsher in the studio for a look at the big stories of the day #SavingCrisis #BCE #Budget #roadtax and more

A pensions victory for Money Mail and This is Money. George Osborne won't be making any major pension changes in next week's budget. But what will the Chancellor announce next week? And new rules will soon let most people earn £1,000 interest tax-free - yet can anybody explain how this will work?!

This is Crowdfunders - the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance with Ed Bowsher. In today's show, we're going to speak to an 83 year-old man who is raising money via an equity crowdfunding campaign. Also Ed will be looking at what crowdfunding investors look at when they think about investing their cash. Also with some crowdfunding news and a platform profile on Property Partner.

This is 'Crowdfunders', the show that covers the fast-growing world of alternative finance. In today's show with Ed Bowsher we take a critical look at mini-bonds where companies effectively borrow money from investors via crowdfunding websites. Also looked at is a crowdfunding campaign by a coffee company called Pact coffee. The company's founder claims that Pact's coffee is the best in the UK. And finally, chat with James Codling, who is the boss of a platform called VentureFounders. James talks about VentureFounders and also explains what he thinks the crowdfunding industry needs to do if it wants to mature successfully.