Tagged: lending club

April 21, 2016 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE:LC) has hired former McKinsey & Company partner Sameer Gulati as Chief Operations Officer. Simultaneously Scott Sanborn has been promoted to President. Both executives will continue to report directly to CEO Renaud Laplanche. Gulati was previously leader of McKinsey’s Digital Banking practice. As… Read More

April 20, 2016 @ 5:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

The largest marketplace lending platform in the US, Lending Club (NYSE:LC), has filed an 8-K with the SEC notifying interested parties that both interest rates and loss projections are being updated. According to the document, as of today (April 20, 2016) loan loss projections are… Read More

April 6, 2016 @ 11:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

As had been rumored for quite some time, marketplace lending leaders Lending Club (NYSE:LC), Prosper and Funding Circle, have announced the creation of an industry association to represent their interests and advocate on behalf of sector growth.  Formed as a not for profit membership organization,… Read More

March 31, 2016 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Millennium Trust Company is a custody solution for IRAs, private funds and alternative assets with over 432,000 individual accounts and $17.4  billion in assets under custody. Lending Club is the largest marketplace lender in the US that offers individual investors the opportunity to generate respectable… Read More

March 31, 2016 @ 9:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Global Credit Investments has called itself the first Australian fund to invest in peer-to-peer loans, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.  The small fund, set up by former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Sher and former Bain & Co consultant Gavin Solsky, is the latest of a new breed of financial intermediaries which has been buying loans American… Read More

March 29, 2016 @ 1:20 pm By Amy Wan  |  

  In translating the JOBS Act into final regulations, the SEC sought to protect investors in myriads ways: limiting certain opportunities to accredited investors, implementing caps on the annual amount certain investors may invest, and requiring certain disclosures, among other things. Understandably, the bulk of… Read More

February 26, 2016 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC), the largest marketplace lending platform in the United States, has altered operations in light of concerns over the Madden vs. Midland decision delivered by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in May last year. This court case has cast a bit of… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club announced financial results for 2015 this morning. The numbers came in ahead of analyst expectations and, even better, CEO Renaud Laplanche, predicted that earnings will be even better in coming quarters as he boosted the company’s forecast. As part of the announcement, Lending Club… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The leading marketplace lending platform in the US Lending Club (NYSE:LC) reported Q4 and 2015 full year results this morning.  The company also reported that, to date, it has facilitated over $16 billion in consumer and SME loans.  Lending Club also revealed its intent to… Read More

February 8, 2016 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

As part of a “credit performance update”, Lending Club has published an 8-K with the SEC regarding a blog post that was published on February 7th that was “subsequently misinterpreted”. Lending Club has now attempted to better explain its message. According to the 8-K from… Read More

February 2, 2016 @ 5:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has agreed to acquire nearly $1 billion worth of personal loans arranged by LendingClub Corp., people familiar with the deal reported Nasdaq’s Telis Demos. The portfolio, worth just over $900 million and comprising loans made to consumers with an average FICO… Read More

January 28, 2016 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

  As marketplace lending grows and matures it is natural, even expected, for policy makers and regulators to stand up and take notice. While in the overall world of finance direct online lenders are still relatively small, more and more frequently amounts are measured in… Read More

January 27, 2016 @ 12:47 am By Anthony Zeoli  |  

Real estate crowdfunding is one of the most popular forms of investment-based crowdfunding in the industry today. That is why it has already accounted for millions of dollars in project funding in just the last couple years. As the popularity and viability of this market… Read More

January 22, 2016 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC), the largest marketplace lending platform in the United States, has scheduled its Q4 earnings release for Thursday, February 11th prior to market open.  Lending Club will hold a conference call to discuss results with analysts at 8:30 AM ET the same… Read More

January 20, 2016 @ 9:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Norwest Venture Partners, a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm, today announced the formation of its latest fund, Norwest Venture Partners XIII, LP. The $1.2 billion fund targets early to late stage venture and growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors… Read More

January 12, 2016 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Industry representatives from the two largest economies in the world, China and the United States, will gather in San Francisco later this month to discuss the future of P2P / marketplace lending.  The conference is organized by Sync US International (Chi Mei International) a bilateral “resource”… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The national roll-out continues for Lending Club (NYSE: LC) as it adds Oregon and New Jersey to the list of states where investors may lend to borrowers. Lending Club must be approved by each state to allow investor participation.  As of today, Lending Club is open… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 2:30 pm By Therese Torris  |  

Lendix, one of the 60 companies who joined the fray of crowdlending platforms in 2015 has quickly taken the leadership position by designing a marketplace that meets the needs of institutional investors. Marketplace lending to small and medium size enterprise (SMEs) is taking off in… Read More

December 29, 2015 @ 2:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC), the largest marketplace lending platform in the U.S., recently released a new infographic that shares details about small business financing. The platform revealed that out of 28 million U.S. small businesses 44% of owners want financing but can’t get the right… Read More

December 22, 2015 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Following the move by the Federal Reserve, Lending Club (NYSE: LC) has announced it will increase interest rates by 0.25% thus matching the move by the Fed last week.  The announcement is not unexpected and is similar to what many major banks have announced.  Lending… Read More