Tagged: marketplace lender

October 17, 2018 @ 4:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Commercial property investment marketplace CrowdStreet announced on Wednesday it is now raising $25 million for the company’s first CrowdStreet Blended Portfolio investment offering. The investment platform revealed that in order to provide individual investors and registered investment advisors another way to diversify their investments with commercial… Read More

August 17, 2018 @ 1:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

China Rapid Finance Limited (NYSE: XRF), one of China’s largest consumer lending marketplaces, announced earlier this week the launch of its new share repurchase program, which allows the lender to authorized the repurchase of its ordinary shares in the form of American depositary shares with an aggregate… Read More

February 6, 2018 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, German marketplace lender for SMEs, creditshelf, announced it is extending the maximum term of its arranged loans from 36 to 60 months. The online lending platform also reported that the maximum loan amount will double from previous €2.5 million to €5 million with… Read More

March 27, 2017 @ 9:11 pm By Jonathan Nieh  |  

Current State of Affairs Small business lender Kabbage announced earlier this month that it would begin selling over $525 million worth of loans to investors, which will in turn increase its lending capacity to over $2.7 billion. In contrast, Kabbage’s competitor OnDeck, has seen its share… Read More

January 12, 2017 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, reporting and analytics platform dv01 announced it is collaborating with Experian to bring transparency to marketplace lending. The companies stated that the collaboration would provide dv01 clients with access to richer borrower credit attributes while they conduct performance analysis using dv01’s online tools. Perry Rahbar,… Read More

October 4, 2016 @ 6:21 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Smava, the German marketplace lender, has secured a $34M in a funding round led by Runa Capital, with additional participation from the Scandinavian private equity firm Verdane Capital, mojo.capital and existing investors, reported AltFi News. Runs, an active investor in the alternative finance sector, has also invested in… Read More

May 4, 2016 @ 7:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

DriverUp, an online marketplace for automotive financing, today announced that tech industry veteran Anthony Fratiani has joined its executive team as Chief Technology Officer.  In this newly created position, Fratiani will oversee the continued build out of DriverUp’s consumer-facing side of the business. “We are thrilled about Tony… Read More

December 22, 2015 @ 3:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

DRB, a bank and marketplace lender that has reached $1 billion in student loan refinancings, announced this week that it has closed its fourth securitization. This securitization brings total issuance in excess of $928.2 million. The $332.5 million in senior notes were rated A2 to… Read More