Tagged: dianrong.com

September 15, 2015 @ 1:08 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  Recently, Soul Htite, co-founder and CEO of Dianrong.com, one of China’s fastest-growing peer-to-peer lenders, did a little debunking of P2P and conventional banking assumptions. In a recent exclusive interview with FinanceAsia, he noted, One of the common misconceptions of P2P lenders is that they go head-to-head with… Read More

June 19, 2015 @ 12:55 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Update on a $150 million fundraising round in progress: Chinese online lender Dianrong.com is raising funds in a round that values the startup at about $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, notes BloombergBusiness. Investors include Standard Chartered Plc, a British multinational banking and financial services… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 12:40 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

A major Chinese peer-to-peer lender, Dianrong.com, now claims a valuation of “around” $1 billion, due to its latest round of fundraising, according to the company’s CEO, Soul Htite, in a conversation with CNBC (Reuters also contributed to the story). U.S. investment firm Tiger Global was the source… Read More

January 25, 2015 @ 11:31 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Chinese online ventures rushing into the online lending industry may need to prepare themselves for a Groupon-style fall, suggested Soul Htite, co-founder of the world’s largest online loan broker, Lending Club, in a recent Bloomberg interview. Htite is also the CEO of peer-to-peer lender Dianrong.com,… Read More

January 7, 2015 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Shanghai-based online financial services firm Dianrong.com stated it has entered into an investment agreement with Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC), under which the company has received “tens of millions of dollars in investment from NLVC”. Dianrong.com states it has become a fast-growing peer-to-peer (P2P) lending website… Read More