Tagged: marketplace

September 2, 2015 @ 11:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending keeps going higher in China.  The world’s largest direct lending market topped 97.5 billion yuan ($15.3 billion) in August according to a report in the Shanghai Daily. To put this in comparison, Lending Club in the US has funded just over… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Victory Park Capital (VPC) announced today it is investing up to €230 million in loans originated on the Zencap platform over a 3 year period.  German publication Handelsblatt called the investment “a record deal for a German startup” and “the most ever for a continental… Read More

August 31, 2015 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

In a recent write-up on the Orchard blog, the FinTech company profiled Don Davis, Managing Partner of Prime Meridian Capital Management. Davis launched the Prime Meridian Small Business Lending Fund in the summer of 2014. The objective was to lend to high quality SME loans… Read More

August 29, 2015 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading peer to peer lending platform Zopa has announced an executive shake-up that has removed Giles Andrews as CEO. Effective immediately, Jaidev Janardana is the new CEO of Zopa. Andrews, a Zopa co-founder, will now be Executive Chairman of the fast growing direct lender. Janardana… Read More

August 28, 2015 @ 12:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Bondora has announced forthcoming updates to its platform that marks a significant improvement for investors.  According to Bondora, coming this fall a new passive investing feature will be incorporated into their site. This should make it easier for new investors to… Read More

August 25, 2015 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Zopa, the first peer to peer lending platform in the UK, recently announced having passed £1 billion in lending.  The lending platform has a trajectory to more than double the total volume of loans versus year prior as more and more consumers go online to… Read More

August 24, 2015 @ 9:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dianrong, a Chinese peer to peer lending platform, has received a new funding round in the amount of $207 million led by Standard Chartered with  participation from China Fintech Fund and Bohai Leasing.  The Series C funding was declared the largest ever for the direct… Read More

August 24, 2015 @ 8:34 am By JD Alois  |  

SoFi, or Social Finance, is a marketplace lending platform that uses data to provide loans to refinance student debt.  The direct lender has had an enviable degree of success in generating solid risk adjusted returns for its investors. SoFi claimed the title of fastest growing marketplace… Read More

August 20, 2015 @ 9:04 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

“The last three months have seen around $150 million provided to 144 small businesses within The Funding Network. We’re estimating our total funding volume in 2015 to be around $800 million. Beyond that, I see huge potential for Symbid if we can continue to expand… Read More

August 20, 2015 @ 12:48 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Last week, CEO Laimonas Noreika led the launch of Finbee, the second peer-to-peer lending platform to launch in Lithuania.  Lithuanian and British-owned, Finbee opened its P2P lending service to international investors today. Lithuania is a country that is aggressively courting businesses as a country that is… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 1:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC) subsidiary Springstone Financial has agreed to settle with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in an issue relate to the “staff’s concerns on possible borrower confusion about the terms of a deferred interest product”.  The program in question was terminated by… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Latvia-based peer to peer lending platform Twino has reaffirmed its push to offer investors a unique buyback guarantee.  Twino states it is the only European direct lender to offer such assurance. Part of parent company FinaBay, the Twino states it has 7 years of online lending experience and… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The US Department of Treasury issued a “Request for Information” (RFI) on the burgeoning Marketplace / P2P lending sector several weeks back.  As summer vacations are quickly coming to an end, Treasury has decided to give direct lenders and interested parties a bit more time… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 10:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK-based peer to peer lender MarketInvoice has raised a solid £6 million in a Series A funding round.  MarketInvoice is a direct lender that provides interim funding to firms via invoice financing.   MarketInvoice previously raised £5 million in December 2014. Launched in 2011 the… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Dick Bove, an equity research analyst and frequent commentator on CNBC, has published an Op-Ed on CNBC about the legislative disaster called Dodd-Frank.  Bove does not mince words when he states,  “I thought it would be impossible to find a worse piece of legislation in… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zopa has become the first UK peer to peer lender to surpass £1 billion (about $1.564 billion) in lending as direct lender states P2P lending has now become mainstream. The P2P lender has already matched more loans in 2015 than it did in the whole of… Read More

August 14, 2015 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Chinese peer to peer lender Migang has formed a strategic partnership with Tianan Property Insurance to provide additional security to customers. According to a report in China News, Cao Xiaofeng, Chairman of Migang, said; “Risk control has been a challenge for P2P sector, and we… Read More

August 14, 2015 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Mitchel Harad, a former executive at Lending Club, recently joined the Aussie peer to peer lending platform Society One.  Harad, who has been described as the “architect” of Lending Club’s growth,  states he joined the marketplace lending platform at a very similar point in its development… Read More

August 13, 2015 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdahouse was originally launched in 2012.  The crowdfunding platform sought to drive efficiencies in the buy-to-let market by providing capital via equity at minimum amounts of £5,000. Today Crowdahouse is changing direction by pivoting to debt based lending.  Gary Corben, co-founder and CEO of Crowdahouse,… Read More

August 12, 2015 @ 3:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kiran Lingam, Managing Director at LendTech Angels, has published his thoughts on the Citizen.VC No-Action letter released earlier this week.  Lingam, a securities attorney by education, sees the clarification pushing marketplace lenders to use 506(b), as opposed to utilizing 506(c) – an exemption that allows… Read More