MarketInvoice has been covered extensively in the broadcast and print media. Here are just a few highlights of the press attention that MarketInvoice has received.

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	“Anil Stocker, co-founder of MarketInvoice, the first such company to launch in the UK, said potential returns stood at 12-15 per cent a year, before allowing for bad debts. MarketInvoice quotes a payment default rate of 1.2 per cent.“We have had a lot of inbound inquiries from high net worth individuals, family offices and hedge funds looking to invest in alternative finance platforms,” he said.He estimated that wealthy individuals accounted for about 40 per cent of the 75-strong client base MarketInvoice has built up since its launch in 2011.”Financial Times, 13th June 2013 Read the article online
	“More than £50 million has been raised by small businesses auctioning unpaid invoices through online platform MarketInvoice in just over two years. MarketInvoice was launched in February 2011 to allow firms hindered by late payment and subsequent cash flow problems to sell on invoices to investors, who include hedge funds and wealthy individuals. Firms pay a charge of 0.2 per cent of the invoice to sell through the site. Late payment is a growing issue for small firms – the latest estimates suggest national late payment debt is more than £30 billion.”Mail on Sunday, 28th May 2013 Read the article online
	“This week, Evan meets three pioneers of alternative finance and asks – can they beat the banks at their own game? Giles Andrews is CEO of Zopa, the peer to peer lending website; Anil Stocker is co-founder of MarketInvoice, an online finance provider that allows companies to turn invoices into working capital; and Michael Joseph is director of mobile money at Vodafone and former CEO of the Kenyan mobile phone provider Safaricom, where he launched the revolutionary mobile money transfer service, M-Pesa.” - BBC Radio 4 and BBC News 24, 18th February 2013Watch or listen to the coverage
	“MarketInvoice is a start-up that runs an electronic marketplace in which small firms sell their unpaid invoices to investors at a discount. This lets credit-starved businesses get hold of cash faster than they otherwise would, and gives the buyers a return on the invoices they snapped up. Small firms have received £40m via MarketInvoice since it was launched in 2011. Anil Stocker, an ex-Lehman banker and one of the firm’s founders, says his big problem is controlling growth, so as to maintain the quality of the invoices.” - The Economist, 15th December 2012Read full article
	“The finance industry will have to completely change, and we are just at the beginning,” Mr. Stocker said. MarketInvoice wants to exploit an underserved market in the banking sector. As firms have pulled back on lending, small business have been denied credit because they are deemed too much of a financial risk. To help these companies access cash, Mr. Stocker and his partners began an online marketplace where small businesses can auction their long-term supply contracts.” – New York Times, October 22nd 2012Read full article
	“The government is to award £100 million to alternative lenders such as online peer-to-peer finance companies in a bid to help boost funding to entrepreneurs. Online peer-to-peer lending services allow individuals to lend money directly to SMEs using. Companies such as MarketInvoice and Funding Circle have been invited to submit proposals showing how they would use some of the £100 million to encourage lending to startups.” - Wired, 31st May 2012 Read full article
	“A new breed of “peer-to-peer” lenders that allow individuals to supply funds to small businesses are preparing to compete for up to £100m of government money as they look to accelerate their already rapid growth. Peer-to-peer groups and other alternative finance providers were allocated the funds in this year’s Budget in an attempt to boost the flow of credit to small and medium-sized enterprises amid a sharp withdrawal of traditional bank lending.” - Financial Times, 31st May 2012 Read full article
	“The government has announced that as part of the Business Finance Partnership’s £500 million fund for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), £100 million will be distributed to alternative finance lenders. MarketInvoice will be applying for £30 million of government funding to go direct to SMEs.” - BBC Radio 4, 31st May 2012 Listen to the coverage
	“The government is planning £100m in funding for alternative lenders, including new internet finance firms. It is part of £500m being made available to small and medium sized firms through the government’s Business Finance Partnership. So called peer-to-peer lenders are expected to be big beneficiaries. They use the internet to match businesses with investors with money to loan.” - BBC News, 30th May 2012 Read full article
	“Mick Fortune considers himself lucky. Despite a tough economy his company’s order book for balconies and balustrades is full, the only problem, his customers can take almost three months to pay him. To get his money more quickly Mick turned to this invoice financing start-up in London, something a hundred small and medium sized businesses now do on a regular basis.” - Bloomberg, 26th April 2012 Watch the video
	“MarketInvoice is an online marketplace where big institutional investors — hedge funds, family offices and rich individuals — can advance working capital to small businesses by acquiring their long-date invoices. Small businesses get access to quick, cheap money that is less risk averse than traditional finance products offered by banks. Buyers can tap into an asset usually tied up by the large banks and factoring companies. Wired.co.uk catches up with founder Anil Stocker.” - Wired, 25th April 2012 Read full article
	“A year on, Witenberg is an avid user of Market Invoice, and one of 100 entrepreneurs who regularly use it. Since February last year, the business has seen monthly auction volumes rise from £20,000 to about £3m. The firm, run by two former bankers, recently completed auctions worth £1m in a day.” - The Sunday Times, 15th April 2012 Read full article
	“MarketInvoice.com, for example, enables entrepreneurs to auction invoices to investors rather than take out bank loans to cover the period until the invoices are paid. The process is quick and easy and the fees range from 1 to 2 per cent. MarketInvoice.com also takes a 0.5 per cent arrangement fee.” - The Times, 24th April 2012 Read full article
	“The Government appointed Breedon report that has just been published aims to tackle what many small businesses see as their biggest hurdle, funding. Latest figures from Project Merlin show the big five banks in the UK missed their lending targets to small companies in 2011. Well according to the banks this is not due to a lack of cooperation on their part.” - BBC News, 16th March 2012 Watch the video
	“This morning’s Breedon Report from the Government commissioned task force says small businesses should be looking at alternative ways of raising money. [...] The task force will unveil plans to set up a business finance advice network, more business to business lending and establishing a single body to bundle up and sell on small business loans and it’s also calling on bigger firms to help out the smaller ones by paying for services more quickly.” - BBC Radio 4, 16th March 2012 Listen to the coverage
	“The idea is similar to factoring, whereby firms sell off all their invoices at a discount to improve their cashflow. But the idea behind [...] MarketInvoice [...] is to break receivables down into small, tradable units so that buyers can make judgments on individual debtors and diversify their holdings.” - The Economist, 23rd February 2012 Read full article
	Anil Stocker, director of MarketInvoice, says “The banking sector is going to change radically over the next 5-10 years. I think there is going to be a lot more innovation and a lot more competition. The UK has always been at the forefront of financial service innovation so why shouldn’t it start here?” - Sky News, 13th February 2012 Read full article
	“Anil Stocker is the director of MarketInvoice, which was set up a year ago to provide an alternative to traditional factoring services. It offers SMEs the opportunity to auction off outstanding invoices to investors, improving their cash flow.” - The Independent, 23rd January 2012 Read full article