Damian Webb

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RSM

Advisory Partner

A qualified corporate financier and insolvency practitioner, Damian specialises in providing practical advice to SMEs on accelerated sales, debt advisory and restructuring. Damian leads RSM’s debt advisory team, and has established relationships with a range of funders, including mainstream Banks, private equity/ family offices, alternative finance and regional growth funds. He has recently successfully advised on the refinancing of a number of businesses, including a number of specialist retailers, leisure businesses and financial services and Fin Tech companies.  

Event Sessions Featuring Damian Webb


Roundtable (Breakout)

Alternative Credit ‐ Round Table Discussion

London Summit 2018 - Monday 26 March 2018

  • The 22-strong roundtable discussed various aspects of opportunities in the non-bank lending space including the opportunities in SME lending, the maturity of the market and the sustainability of some platforms' business models and the need for greater transparency.
  • Christian Gut, manager of the P2P lending Fund, said investors need to fully understand track records of managers/funds and of how loans are performing. He said it is “really hard to understand” like-for-like comparisons when platform are changing underwriting models.  “Every country and platform is doing things in different ways. The industry should decide a certain level of credit and risk that should exist across the aboard,” he said.
  • Maseco’s Matthews added that niches are well suited to alternative credit but  “you can’t throw a lot of money” at them as this would harm yields.
  • RM’s Nicholl’s said that trust in the sector could be improved by third party audits leading to more capital into the sector.
  • AltFi Data’s Fekete added that lenders are showing more and more interest in having their data assessed and compared on a like-for-like basis. That is a vital part of the maturation of the sector, he said.



Articles By Damian Webb

Are the Standby arrangements for the P2P sector appropriate?

31st October 2019 | Damian Webb

Meeting The Demands of Institutional Funders

25th March 2019 | Damian Webb

Strengthening wind-down plans for loan-based crowdfunders

13th January 2017 | Damian Webb



Articles Featuring Damian Webb

Are the Standby arrangements for the P2P sector appropriate?

31st October 2019 | Damian Webb

It’s not the end of the Peer show yet

22nd July 2019 | Simon Sinclair

Collapse of property platform Lendy prompts FCA probe

28th May 2019 | Roger Baird