Tagged: marketplace

August 10, 2016 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Back in May, Prosper started a monthly update on performance of loans on their marketplace lending platform. The added transparency is welcomed insight – especially for smaller investors. Today, Brad Pennington, CRO of Prosper, published the July 2016 performance report. He stated that expected returns… Read More

August 10, 2016 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Bigstone has announced $3 million in equity funding led by CVC Limited and the founders of Lighthouse Venture Partners along with participation from Australian private investors. This is the first funding round for Bigstone an SME lending platform that launched this past June. The peer… Read More

August 9, 2016 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE:LC) announced earnings yesterday. The Q2 numbers were over-shadowed by the “resignation” of Carrie Dolan, the longtime CFO of Lending Club who joined the company when there were just 40 companies. During the conference call, Lending Club CEO Scott Sanborn stated that Dolan… Read More

August 8, 2016 @ 4:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE:LC) has announced Q2 2106 financial results reporting almost $2 billion in loan originations. Comparing this quarter to the same quarter in 2015, originations increased by 2%.  Meanwhile losses accelerated with a negative $81.4 million being posted and an adjusted EBITDA of $30.1… Read More

August 8, 2016 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

There is another shocking change of leadership at Lending Club (NYSE:LC), the largest marketplace lending platform in the US. Longtime CFO Carrie Dolan has resigned her role as Chief Financial Officer in what must be a significant blow to the online lender.  Dolan joined the… Read More

August 8, 2016 @ 12:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Orchard Marketplace is a platform that is uniquely positioned at the intersection of institutional money and online lending. If you are a large investor you are using Orchard to manage and access loans on all marketplace lending platforms. This perspective means that Orchard can easily… Read More

August 7, 2016 @ 7:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC), the largest marketplace lending platform in the US, is scheduled to announce Q2 earnings tomorrow after the market closes on Monday (August 8). The executive team will be holding a conference call at 5PM ET (2PM PT). The financial performance of… Read More

August 6, 2016 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Canaan Partners is a Silicon Valley VC firm that has over $4.0 billion under management with a good portion of their investments going into seed / early stage companies. They have also set up offices in Israel to be closer to the StartUp Nation phenomena… Read More

August 4, 2016 @ 4:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Money360, a commercial real estate online marketplace lending platform, announced on Thursday it has officially surpassed the $100 million in closed commercial real estate loans with the completion of $15.25 million in recently closed loans. According to CEO and founder of Money360, Evan Gentry, much of… Read More

August 4, 2016 @ 2:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prosper, a leading marketplace lending platform, is in the midst of negotiating a huge $5 billion deal to purchase Prosper loans.  This is according to a post in WSJ.com. Buyers include some pretty prominent names like Soros Fund Management, Fortress Investment Group and Third Point…. Read More

August 4, 2016 @ 12:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Societies, a Singapore-based “peer to business” lending marketplace, has raised a respectable S$ 10 million in a Series A funding round.  The investment was led by Sequoia India, part of the legendary Sequoia VC group. Funding Societies believes this is the largest investment in… Read More

August 3, 2016 @ 4:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

NSRInvest, a platform that provides institutional like investment tools for retail investors purchasing loans from Lending Club, Prosper and Funding Circle.  These marketplace / P2P lending platforms can provide solid risk-adjusted returns from a diversified portfolio of loans. When institutional money showed up, marketplace lending shot… Read More

July 31, 2016 @ 8:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month during a swing through Asia, Ron Suber, President of Prosper, visited the studios of CNBC from Hong Kong. Always on message, Suber explained the insatiable search for yield from all around the world in this historically low interest rate environment that is… Read More

July 31, 2016 @ 8:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently European marketplace/P2P lender Bondora has been publishing a series of updates on the operation and management of the growing online lender. A recent post stated; “…[we have been] sharing detailed information on how Bondora is managed and operated. We promised that over the coming months… Read More

July 30, 2016 @ 2:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

P2Binvestor revealed earlier this week it had signed the largest line of credit to date at $10 million.  The online lender provides access to capital via secured lines of credit. Typically the loan will be tied to assets like receivables, inventory, or perhaps another form… Read More

July 27, 2016 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Specialty lender Community Chest has partnered-up with ThinCats on new “Social Enterprise” loans. These loans are designed to provide access to capital for social enterprises seeking to drive community impact while delivering tax-efficient returns to investors who may recieve up to 30% tax relief on… Read More

July 25, 2016 @ 1:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gillian Roche-Saunders, is a partner at the law firm of Bates, Wells & Braithwaite in London.  She is a leading regulatory consultant in the Fintech sector having been engaged in alternative finance for the past five years – before the FCA jumped in to officially… Read More

July 25, 2016 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) has released its second quarter numbers for 2016. The P2PFA was founded in 2011 as a self-regulatory body for the sector to promote high standards of conduct and consumer protection and represents the largest P2P lenders in… Read More

July 23, 2016 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

  John Goodall and Gray Stern launched their company, Landbay, with the help of Seedrs.  Before their website was even live, Goodall and Stern were raising seed capital on the crowdfunding platform for their vision of mortgage finance.  Their first funding round was for only £50,000… Read More

July 20, 2016 @ 9:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) announced earnings yesterday and beyond beating market expectations, the investment bank revealed some of its intentions on the forthcoming launch of its online lending platform later this fall. The news that Goldman Sachs was moving into the online lending sector came over… Read More