Funding Circle heads to Brazil

A quick new business update: We’re excited to reveal that we’ve just started working with Funding Circle, the online marketplace where savers and investors directly lend to small businesses in the UK.

Founded by three entrepreneurs in 2010, the company is unlike any other, and we’ll be working closely with them to increase traffic and position Funding Circle as a true alternative to a bank for savers, investors and small businesses. We’ve already kicked it off with some great online coverage in April (in the Telegraph, the Independent and on This is Money) and May (on the BBC, in City A.M. and on MSN UK), and the team, led by Brazil associate director Sean Williams, will be working hard to keep it up throughout the year to ensure that Funding Circle meets its ambitious growth targets.

You can find out more about Funding Circle at its website, and if you’re a journalist, email fundingcircle@agencybrazil.com for further information or comment.

Brazil Leads the New World Order

Best selling author Adjiedj Bakas will be hitting TV and radio programmes this January courtesy of Brazil. His new book, The Future of Finance, predicts how the world will change following the current recession, including a new world order which is challenged by emerging countries such as is being launched in the UK on 16 January 2009. Dutchman Bakas is an adviser to multi-nationals and political leaders across the world, and in The Future of Finance he sets out his vision of the world’s financial markets.

The Future of Finance is already one of the most popular selling books in The Netherlands, and is one of the first books to be requested by Barack Obama’s team in preparation for the new presidential term.

Brazil has been tasked with all communications work for the promotion of this new book, covering English language business media.