easyMoney is not a cash savings account.

The easyMoney platform matches carefully selected property professionals looking to borrow short term finance (3-24 months) for business purposes, secured against UK property, with investors looking to invest.

The easyMoney team has many years of experience in property and property lending and undertakes rigorous due diligence on all borrowers and the properties against which your money is lent.

All investments contain an element of risk:

• The advertised return is the interest rate we are currently targeting to achieve on loans in a portfolio. There will typically be periods during which your money will be held in cash before we are able to fully allocate it to loans (known as “cash drag”). This can happen both when you invest initially and once a loan is repaid and we need to re-invest the proceeds. The actual rate of return you receive will be lower than the loan interest rate where cash drag occurs. The actual rate of return will also be adversely affected if there are any defaults or if you have to pay tax on the interest you receive. Any changes to the current target rates will be advertised on our website.
• We reserve the right to close any offer and to launch a new offer at any time. Returns are are subject to change from time to time, entirely at our discretion. Any new products or changes to existing products will be displayed on our website.
• Any new product changes will not affect the existing loans in which you are invested. These will remain the same until the underlying loan is repaid by the borrower, or you have sold your loan position. Upon repayment, if you have continued to select the auto-invest button, your monies will automatically be re-invested in new loans in line with the new product specification. If some of your loans are invested on an historic rate and some are invested at a new rate, then this will alter the overall rate you receive.
• If you do not wish to re-lend your money at the new advertised rate of the product you have selected, you must remember to switch off your auto invest button to avoid your monies being automatically invested at the new advertised rate.
• On bridge loans, we lend a maximum of 75% of the value of a property.
• On development loans, we lend a maximum of (1) 75% of the current value of the property, plus (2) 100% of construction costs. Total lending under (1) and (2) (including all interest, fees and other costs) is capped at 70% of the anticipated Gross Development Value (namely the price that the valuer anticipates the developed property will sell for).
• All valuations are generally undertaken by a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor's (RICS) valuer. Valuations are only estimates and property values are subject to change over time. If the value of a property against which you have lent falls, the borrower may find it harder to sell or refinance the property.
• Bridge loans lend against the initial value of the property. Any building or development works generally have to be paid for by the property owner.
• Property development loans can potentially carry more risk than bridge loans because you are reliant on the developer, his project manager and contractors and sub-contractors to undertake the construction diligently and expeditiously. Unforseen problems and changes in circumstances can sometimes occur during the construction and sales process.
• easyMoney undertakes detailed due diligence before entering into any loan on your behalf, but if for any reason a loan becomes non-performing, we will work with the borrower to recover any missed interest payments. If necessary, as a last resort we will commence repossession proceedings in order to sell the property. If the property is not in a completed state, it may be necessary for easyMoney to take over and complete the development in order to maximise the return. This may take some months.
• Your interest and capital are not guaranteed and there could be a shortfall if for any reason there is a delay in investing funds into underlying loans or the property is sold for less than the outstanding sums owed as a result of fraud, property market fall, erroneous valuation etc. Your investment is not covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

Sometimes, for various reasons, underlying borrowers can be late in paying their monthly interest. In this event we may, at our discretion, pay interest to investors on behalf of the underlying borrower for up to two months. If two monthly payments are missed by the borrower, then easyMoney will categorise the loan as being in default. We will work with the borrower to recover any missed payments and to obtain repayment of the loan. As a last resort we will repossess and sell the property.

You can request to sell some or all of your loans at any time, but the ability to sell is dependent on the availability of willing buyers and the loan must have a history of consistent performance with at least 3 months left on the loan term. If there are no willing buyers, you will have to wait for your repayment until the borrower repays or, in the event of default, that we conclude the recovery process.

We shall use our reasonable endeavours to diversify your total portfolio of loans so that any single loan within it does not exceed our target exposure level. We do this by selling part of your initial loan portfolio and re-investing into new loans coming onto the platform over time. At present, the maximum target exposure level for a single loan is 20% of your total portfolio (including cash), although this may change from time to time and we cannot guarantee that we will achieve our diversification target (for example, because there are not a sufficient number of loans available or because loans become non-performing). The diversification process may take a period of months to achieve. Until then, your money will be concentrated in a smaller number of loans, meaning the that impact of any individual non-performing loan on your overall investment will be greater. You can view your loan portfolio and any cash held on your ‘My Portfolio’ page.

The management of any conflict of interest is important to us. In order to have a pool of loans available for Regular, IFISA and Pensions investors (“platform investors”) we have arrangements in place with a number of established professional investors to underwrite loans. As these investors typically provide larger sums on a medium to long-term basis, they receive a higher interest rate than platform investors. We make sure that no platform investor gets priority over any other platform investor based on any factor other than the time at which they place their investment.

easyMoney is responsible for administering loans on your behalf. If easyMoney were to stop operating, the existing loans would be passed to a standby servicing company to take over the management of the loan book and oversee the return of your investment. Please see our FAQs for further details about our “Living Will” arrangements

Any money waiting to be allocated to loans will be held within segregated client accounts at NatWest and, if NatWest were to become insolvent during this period, your cash would be covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) until it is invested.