Tagged: marketplace

May 6, 2016 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Rating’s agency Moody’s has published a report that is critical of the marketplace lending sector. Pointing to the class action lawsuit filed in a US District Court against Lending Club (NYSE:LC) on April 6th, Moody’s states that owners of Asset-Backed Loans (ABS) face legal challenges… Read More

May 5, 2016 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

  This past Tuesday (May 3rd), twenty members of Congress joined to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, to tread lightly when it came to the emerging marketplace lending industry. The timing of bi-partisan missive is important as Treasury has announced it will… Read More

May 5, 2016 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

RateSetter has appointed Cyrille Sallé de Chou as its new Chief Risk Officer. Chou will be migrating over from Lloyds Banking Group where has been the Credit Risk Director of Mortgages. In that role, he was said to have overseen one of the largest loan… Read More

May 4, 2016 @ 2:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Department of Treasury has announced its intent to release a white paper next week pertaining to their review of the marketplace lending industry (orginally labeled peer to peer lending). The document is expected to encapsulate the many comment letters submitted to Treasury following… Read More

May 3, 2016 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global consulting firm PwC has published a report on the marketplace lending industry.  The timing is good as the industry is being buffeted by the broader challenge of a stumbling economy. The document aptly starts by noting the marketplace lending sector is oh, so much… Read More

May 2, 2016 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Embedded below is the consultation paper crafted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in anticipation of creating a regulatory regime for peer to peer lending.  The document sets out to review the various legal frameworks in place around the world for peer to peer… Read More

April 29, 2016 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

China’s internet finance industry continues to grow while encountering ongoing challenges as fraud remains prevalent in the loosely regulated sector of the finance industry. Dominated by peer to peer lending (the largest in the world), as of March over 3900 platforms were counted by WDZJ (other… Read More

April 28, 2016 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The largest marketplace lending platform in the US, Lending Club (NYSE: LC), will announce Q1 earnings results on May 9th after the market closes. The management conference call will take place at 5PM ET (2PM PT).  A live webcast of the call will be available… Read More

April 28, 2016 @ 8:12 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, the leading property marketplace lending platform, has received a £40 million warehouse facility from Macquarie.  The funding will be dedicated to bridge  and buy-to-let loans. The financing from Macquarie brings institutional investment for LendInvest to £230 million.  Macquarie, based in Sydney Australia, is a… Read More

April 25, 2016 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Last year Goldman Sachs revealed its intent to push into the marketplace / peer to peer lending sector. While a growing number of traditional financial firms are partnering with more agile, fintech startups – Goldman decided to strike out on their own. This past week,… Read More

April 23, 2016 @ 3:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Commerzbank, the  second largest bank in Germany, is intending on launching their own peer to peer lending platform. While many traditional banks are seeking partnerships with disruptive financial firms, it appears that Commerzbank has decided to take a path less traveled and strike out on… Read More

April 21, 2016 @ 12:00 pm By Therese Torris  |  

Lendix, the lending marketplace that recently become number 1 in SME marketplace lending in France, announced that it has acquired crowdlending platform Finsquare. This first instance of consolidation in the French market certainly is not the last. This acquisition illustrates four trends and issues in… 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 20, 2016 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, China Rapid Finance Limited announced that an investment by global private equity firm Broadline Capital in the company was honored as “Technology Deal of the Year” at the 2016 International Financial Forum’s 8th Annual International M&A Awards. This event recognizes excellence in deal-making and celebrate the… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 11:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The largest bank in South East Asia, DBS, has signed an agreement with two peer to peer lending platforms to refer small business loans the bank turns away.  MoolahSense and Funding Societies will now become a service provider for the far larger bank. Simultaneously, both… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 1:32 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

  Online lending platform Avant announced today it has recruited the key technical teams of two local technology startups, StudyCloud and TempoIQ, to support the company’s next phase of growth. Avant recently surpassed $3 billion in loan originations and as growth continues for 2016, acqui-hires have become… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

    The marketplace lending industry has gone from 0 to 100 in just a few short years. While it seems like only yesterday when Zopa launched in the UK capturing the title of the first P2P lender, platforms now number in the thousands and… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lender Lendix has acquired short term loan specialist Finsquare. Lendix, the largest marketplace lending platform in France, said that Finsquare’s product addressed a “real demand for lenders and borrowers alike.”  The acquisition was viewed as highly complementary to the Lendix platform – an online lender… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

In an independent report conducted by Equity Development, peer to peer lender ArchOver has received a nice affirmation of their secured lending approach. The publication entitled, “How to Make a Relatively Safe 5% PA Return” (registration required), labeled their business model as perhaps the best practice… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 7:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a letter addressed to the General Accounting Office (GAO), signed by Democratic Senators Jeff Merkley, Sherrod Brown, and Jeanne Shaheen, a request was made to research and make recommendations regarding Fintech and Peer to Peer / Marketplace Lending. The letter, dated April 18, 2016,… Read More