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Horlick’s peer-to-peer lender to apply for UK banking licence

High-profile City executive and Lib Dem candidate has big plans for her lending platform — which has yet to turn a profit

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Money&Co, the loss-making peer-to-peer lending platform set up in 2013 by City fund manager Nicola Horlick, plans to apply for a UK banking licence next year to allow it to begin taking deposits from retail investors.

“At the moment we can lend but we can’t take deposits. The cheapest money I could get to lend would be through taking deposits,” Horlick told Financial News.

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