Plend, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending startup, said Monday it has secured £700k in pre-seed funding. While P2P lending is more common in the US, the fintech is the first to introduce the concept of a social lending platform — a marketplace where users can back each other with credit — to the UK.
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