Tagged: marketplace

October 9, 2015 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Landbay, a UK based peer to peer lending platform that finances buy-to-let mortgages, has been invited to join the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) as a full member. This is a first for a P2P platform and comes at a time when the FCA is… Read More

October 8, 2015 @ 10:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bondora has crossed the Atlantic. This is according to multiple reports that the Estonian based platform has entered North American, skipping the US, and heading due North. Quoted in the Globe & Mail, Partel Tomberg, Bondora co-founder and CEO, stated; “We are able to provide investors… Read More

October 7, 2015 @ 2:00 am By JD Alois  |  

RateSetter, a UK-based peer to peer lending platform first opened up for operations in 2010, completing its first loan on October 7th.  Since that date, the online lending platform has matched over £815 million in loans, paid almost £25 million in interest to investors and… Read More

October 6, 2015 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

P2BInvestor, an online lending platform that provides asset backed lending to SMEs, has forged its “first of several” partnerships with institutional investor HCG Fund Management. HCG, based in North Carolina, is very interested in P2P/Marketplace Lending opportunities of investing in loans. HCG was said to be… Read More

October 6, 2015 @ 12:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lender Bond Street has crafted a new partnership with shared workspace provider WeWork to provide “fairly priced lending capital” to members ot the WeWork Community. David Haber, co-founder and CEO of Bond Street, said the two companies shared a passion to empoer entrepreneurs dreams…. Read More

October 6, 2015 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

ZenCap, a one-year-old Berlin-based direct lending platform is presently the fastest growing site in continental Europe.  According to data published by AltFi, ZenCap has generated Year over Year growth of an astounding 445.3%.  The next closest growth rate is of Auxmoney at less than half that… Read More

October 5, 2015 @ 11:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sofi CEO and co-founder Mike Cagney recently commented on the $1 billion in funding they received from a Series E round led by SoftBank.  Cagney nonchalantly explained they now have more options as to when they will go public. That is a bit of an… Read More

October 2, 2015 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fincera, a company that started in the transportation and automotive leasing business, is getting out of this sector to focus on internet finance.  The company announced earlier this week that “the company’s legacy truck leasing business ceased initiating new leases in August 2015.”  It’s internet… Read More

October 2, 2015 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cross River Bank, chartered in the state of New Jersey, has joined with Marlette Funding on a joint $100 million securitization transaction targeting the Marketplace Lending sector. This transaction is said to be the first completed jointly by an FDIC insured bank with a marketplace… Read More

October 2, 2015 @ 12:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Orchard, an important participant in the online lending world, benefits from a unique perspective.  The company powers the digital pipes that channel billions of dollars of institutional money into marketplace lending platforms.  As a valued partner in the P2P / Marketplace lending space, Orchard took… Read More

October 2, 2015 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Prosper has announced a new milestone. The marketplace lending platform has topped $5 billion in loans matched via its platform.  According to Prosper, the lending platform had a record quarter of $1.070 billion in loans.  Only a year ago, Prosper passed the $2 billion mark…. Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 3:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

  As the Marketplace Lending industry begins to mature, awareness is growing across the population.  More and more consumers realize they may be able to save time, and money, by doing a greater portion of their banking online. Lending Club, the largest Marketplace Lending platform… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LoanDepot LLC, a marketplace lending platform, announced on Thursday the appointment of Michael H. Wilson as SVP, Information Technology. Michael H. Wilson joins loanDepot after serving as CIO and Director of IT Strategy at Ball Aerospace where he led classified and unclassified IT strategy, including… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender SoFi has just closed on a Series E funding round in the amount of $1 billion.  Led by SoftBank, SoFi has claimed the “largest single financing round in the Fintech space” ever. SoFi has now raised approximately $1.42 billion in equity. The marketplace… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 10:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online lending is undergoing a bit of an introspective period.  The US Department of Treasury published a request for information which posed multiple questions to industry participants and interested observers.  The UK P2PFA took the opportunity to share their point of view from across the… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 1:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online lender Avant has inked a “definitive agreement” in a Series E funding round for $325 million. The funding is expected to close this October. Avant’s total equity raised now tops $650 million and debt raised goes to $1.1 billion. The lead investor in this… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 12:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Credible, a multi-lender student loan marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan offers from its vetted lending partners, announced on Wednesday that it has closed its recent $10 million Series A funding round. This round was led by Soul Htite, founder and CEO of Dianrong.com/ co-founder… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE:LC), the largest marketplace lending platform in the US today, has submitted their opinion to the US Department of Treasury request for information (RFI) on the eve of the deadline for comments of September 30th, 2015.  Lending Club, the first publicly traded online lending… Read More

September 28, 2015 @ 4:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Amarya Ltd.,  the company behind LoveLula.com, Balm Balm 100% Organic Skincare and ManOrganic.com, recently launched a Crowdcube campaign with a mission to raise £300,000 for online beauty website expansions. Amarya’s LoveLula currently has over 200 brands and more than 4,000 different products. It considers itself a multiple-award… Read More

September 28, 2015 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Landbay has announced a new hire in Paul Clampin appointed as Chief Lending Officer. Clampin joins the peer to peer lending platform from Paragon Group and is said to have over 30 years of industry experience. While at Paragon, Clampin was Director of Mortgage Underwriting. Landbay states… Read More