Tagged: marketplace

September 1, 2016 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

The 5th annual European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) convention is scheduled to take place in Paris this fall and ECN has set high expectations regarding the diverse range of topics to be covered. Oliver Gajda, ECN Executive Director, labeled the gathering a must attend event as… Read More

August 31, 2016 @ 4:09 pm By Spencer Li  |  

After nearly eight months since the original draft was first issued, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (“CBRC”) announced the official rules for the online lending industry on August 24, 2016. The unveiling came accompanied with a few policy curveballs that few industry participants were expecting…. Read More

August 31, 2016 @ 11:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Moody’s has published a report on the marketplace lending industry stating that platforms are “steadily expanding credit to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) – but challenges remain. The authors are of the opinion that partnerships with traditional banks may ease the path forward for… Read More

August 30, 2016 @ 4:43 pm By Oleg Seydak  |  

In recent weeks, marketplace lenders have hit a rough patch. Once the darlings of Wall Street, they have now come under fire, after a string of internal scandals and disappointing earnings. For the traditional banks – who have been saying, “we need to disrupt these… Read More

August 26, 2016 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

The Marketplace Lending Association has hired an Executive Director who has spent the past few years advocating on behalf of very big banks. Nat Hoopes, formerly the Executive Director of the Financial Services Forum, will now be working the halls of Congress on behalf of… Read More

August 25, 2016 @ 3:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Publishing on the pages of American Banker, Todd Baker has written off the entire industry of marketplace lending. Baker states, “it should be obvious now that marketplace lending is unsustainable.” A pretty strong statement for a sector of alternative finance that has, until recently, experienced… Read More

August 24, 2016 @ 5:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

As part of the rebuilding process Lending Club (NYSE:LC) is seeking out new hires with traditional Wall Street cred.  Today the leading marketplace lending firm has hired not one, but two former Wall Street bankers. Lending Club has appointed Valerie Kay, formerly an MD with Morgan… Read More

August 24, 2016 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Orchard Platform, the nexus of institutional money and online lenders, is out with their Q2 2016 report and it is pretty dismal. Consumer unsecured quarterly originations declined by 34.3% versus Q1 of this year.  Comparing Q2 with the same period in 2015, loan originations dipped… Read More

August 23, 2016 @ 4:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Before founding Kabbage, Rob Frohwein established, led and advised a number of successful businesses, including LAVA Group, U.S. Micro Corporation and Surgical Biologics. Additionally, he served in business development and legal capacities for ZapMedia and Security First Network Bank. The Villanova law and undergrad alum… Read More

August 23, 2016 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

LawyerFair, a curated marketplace for buying and selling of commercial legal services, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £360,000 as it looks to expand its legal services and team. Founded in 2014, LawyerFair states it helps companies save legal fees by matching the… Read More

August 22, 2016 @ 10:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores  (CNMV) in Spain has approved Arboribus to operate as a Participatory Financing Platform (PFP) joining a growing list of regulated platforms. Arboribus is an online lender providing access to capital for SMEs. A PFP is a new type of… Read More

August 18, 2016 @ 4:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lending platform Prosper filed their 10-Q this past week reporting on platform operations. As one would expect, operations took a dip in Q2 posting a $35.6 million loss for the quarter.  In the same quarter of 2015, Prosper lost $6.2 million. In the three… Read More

August 17, 2016 @ 8:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Orchard has added a unique online lender to its Market Data product. ApplePie Capital, a company that provides access to capital for the franchise industry will now accept institutional investors via the Orchard service. ApplePie is the first online lender solely focused on the franchises…. Read More

August 15, 2016 @ 9:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yirendai (NYSE:YRD), the publicly traded offshoot of huge P2P lender CreditEase, announced Q2 results last week and the markets liked what they heard. While Yirendai held their earnings call on Wednesday, August 10th, it has taken a few days for the news to sink in…. Read More

August 15, 2016 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

4thWay, a research and rating firm that wants to be the “Morningstar” of peer to peer lending, has published a list of P2P lenders that have achieved their highest rating of 5/5 stars or “PLUSes”. The 6 plaforms are as follows: Funding Circle, Landbay, Lending… Read More

August 13, 2016 @ 2:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdlending.fr  has published a “barometer of activity” regarding online lending performance. As many people know, things tend to slow dow during the summer in France. Especially in July and August as the population heads for the beaches in the south or the west.  But the… Read More

August 12, 2016 @ 6:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dianrong, a very large peer to peer lender in China (far bigger than any platform in the US), did some chest pounding yesterday.  In a release, Dianrong claimed the US Department of Commerce named the Chinese online lender the “Leader in China’s P2P Lending Segment.”… Read More

August 12, 2016 @ 7:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender ThinCats has updated its system for SME loan grading. The online lender has released a “unique system” developed by Rolf Hickman, described as a pioneer in credit analysis.  Hickman was founder and CEO of the pH Group, now part of Experian,… Read More

August 11, 2016 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Estonia based EstateGuru has announced having surpassed €10 million in peer to peer lending for over 60 real estate projects. EstateGuru has been in operation for two years. Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia – a country that has a vibrant startup scene, founders Marek Pärtel, Marko Arro… Read More

August 11, 2016 @ 10:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Latvia’s peer-to-peer lending marketplace Mintos announced on Thursday, since its launch a year and a half ago, it has seen investors funding over €50 million in loans to both private individuals, along with small and medium-sized businesses. The website confirmed that the most loans have been financed from Latvia… Read More