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Fund Ourselves

Invest and lend to our customers directly

Invest in short and medium-term loans to make great returns whilst helping others.

Lend directly and earn from 5% to 15% p.a.

Invest in short-term to medium-term loans and make great returns and help others.
Capital at risk. No FSCS cover. Higher returns are subject to higher risks.
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After selecting your interest rate and risk zone, your investment will be matched automatically to matching borrowers who pass our strict credit scoring and affordability checks.
Issued loans are unsecured. Actual return may be higher or lower and capital is at risk. Investments are not covered by the FSCS.
 

About Fund Ourselves

Our sophisticated credit assessment and affordability checks allows Fund Ourselves to gain a good prediction of the borrowers’ likelihood of defaulting. We aim to achieve our target average default rate by being selective of who we accept as a borrower on our platform. In the event we see our average default rate approaching our target average default rate, we close the lending door to riskier borrowers by tightening our credit assessment and affordability criteria.
We are aiming to achieve our target by maintaining the balance of high risk and low risk borrowers to be lower than the 15% target average using our comprehensive credit and affordability assessment.
Please see P2P Outcome Statement for details
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Borrowers' Creditworthiness


We do extensive checks on our borrower to verify their creditworthiness before issuing any loans. Our checks start with our internal checks, ID and background checks to filter out borrowers not meeting our lending appetite like bankrupt individuals for example. Verified applicants are then screened for fraud and money laundering (AML) which helps us keep unwanted activities off the platform. Once cleared, applicants are credit scored and their affordability is checked to determine their creditworthiness which is the final stage to determine if a borrower is approved or rejected.
 
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Dealing with missed payments and defaults

If a borrower fails to repay the instalment within 35 days of it becoming due, we will report the non-payment to the credit reference agency. All bad debt will then be followed by our internal collections team. If you are reimbursed by the provision fund then you do not have to worry about this step since the provision fund has already covered your loss. However, in the event where the Provision Fund was not able to pay you back for your loss, any funds bad debt collected by the internal collections team is transferred to you.
See the details from Provision Fund Policy

Provision Fund


If a borrower fails to settle their repayment within 35 days of it becoming due, we will report the non-payment to the credit reference agency and aim to reimburse you the principal investment lost from the provisional fund. The reimbursement is subject to the fund availability; therefore, it is not guaranteed. See our terms and conditions for details.
See the details from Provision Fund Policy

Lending through Fund Ourselves

When lending through Fund Ourselves, you can choose your own return from 5% - 15% per annum. This return is the maximum you can get assuming the investment is continuously lent out with no defaults.
The interest rate you choose will determine the maximum borrower estimated default rate you will be lending to. For example, if you choose 10% return, you will be lending to borrowers with an estimated maximum of 10% chance of defaulting. Meaning you can net 9% of return per annum when taking into account the potential defaults and the provision fund contribution and assuming your funds are continuously lent out over one year. The table below defines our estimated returns for each interest rate requested by our lenders.
Risk based interest rates are for estimation purposes only based past performance and future expectation. See our actual past performance below. Please note that Past performances and our forecast of borrower risk rate might not be a reliable indicator of future results.
We do extensive checks on our borrowers to verify their creditworthiness before issuing any loans. Our checks include credit scoring and affordability checks in addition to background checks like ID, fraud and anti-money laundering (AML). Please not these are for estimation purposes only. Past performances and our forecast of borrower risk rate might not be a reliable indicator of future results. See Borrowers’ Creditworthiness (above) for more details.
The returns presented above are after deducting our fees and before tax assuming continued lending over a 12 month period. Lenders may be liable for income tax on earned interest. To check if you are liable for income tax on your earned interest please check the HMRC website or seek professional advice.

Fund Ourselves P2P Outcome Statement

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We continually monitor our outcomes and continue to enhance our credit risk rules and policy to get the best outcome for all parties.
 
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Investment Withdrawal


At any time, you can withdraw your investments that are not lent out and waiting in our lending pool. You can also request to withdraw your investment lent out to borrowers. You will become ineligible to earn interest after making the withdrawal request. The withdrawal process may take some time to complete. You will start receiving the investment back once the lent-out investments are completed, transferred to another lender or purchased by the provisional fund.
 

Wind down plan

We are not planning to wind down and not foreseeing any reasons to wind down in the near future. However, if we are to wind down, we have a plan so it can be done smoothly and with the least effect on investments and the performance of live loans.
In the event of a wind down, first we will close the door to all new investments and return all monies waiting to be lent back to lenders. We will also stop all marketing activities and will reduce the team size to what is required to support live loans to manage the repayments as planned and without disruption. The provision fund will continue to support the bad debt during the wind down process as it would normally during normal operations. The provision fund will be the last business unit to wind down once all loan agreements are settled or terminated.
Again, this is our plan just in case we need it.


 
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