Tagged: citigroup

April 13, 2015 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Former Citigroup executive Vinayak Gurjar has joined marketplace lender CommonBond as Chief Risk Officer.  Gurjar joins a growing number of traditional banking managers switching over to new, fast growing financial firms.  While the banking industry has suffered years of slow growth, crushing regulations and a… Read More

December 16, 2014 @ 4:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC) an online marketplace the connects borrowers and investors, announced on Tuesday (December 16th) the closing of its initial public offering and the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase an additional 8,700,000 shares from Lending Club. After the underwriters’… Read More

January 10, 2014 @ 11:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The peer-to-peer lending space is rife with news and new high-quality market entrants to kick off the new year. It’s part of the reason why I predicted that 2014 is the year that P2P lending goes mainstream. (One could make an argument that it already has,… Read More