Tagged: marketplace

April 17, 2015 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

“Regulators should allow new firms to operate, generate data on the outcomes created by novel business models before writing new rules.” Larry Summers, former Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton and Director of the National Economic Council under President Obama, delivered a rousing speech… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 11:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

China is the largest peer to peer lending market in the world today and is home to the largest platforms in the world as well.  While exact estimates vary, most followers put the number of China based P2P lending platforms at an incredible number of… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 10:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

GLI, a UK based firm that is heavily invested in alternative finance, has invested in the first regulated peer to peer lending platform in Spain – MytripleA.  According to a company release, GLI lead a € 1 Million funding round, kicking in € 445,500 for a 9.9%… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Wonder is the latest entrant into the peer to peer lending space. The company reports it soft-launched in September of 2014 and since that time has built a “qualified small business loan pipeline of over $5 million.  The company expects that number to grow… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 5:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

This peer to peer lending guide (embedded below) is designed to introduce financial advisors, and those more financially sophisticated types, to the world of peer to peer investing. Peer to peer investing is the new hotness in the financial world. The efficiency of allocation generated by… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By Anthony Zeoli  |  

It is clear that peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is here to stay but long gone are the days of actual “peers” lending to “peers.” Today Wall Street firms, hedge funds and other “big money investors”, make up the overwhelming bulk of the funds being lent through… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 7:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity guru Jim Cramer invited one of the leading innovators in the peer to peer, or marketplace lending, space to swing by his Mad Money studio this week.  Renaud Laplanche, CEO and founder of Lending Club (NYSE:LC), the largest peer to peer lender in the… Read More

April 14, 2015 @ 4:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Orchard, an investment and analytics firm that supports the global marketplace lending industry, has released Orchard Manager Database described as a” comprehensive resource for institutional investors to identify and evaluate the funds of marketplace (P2P) lending investment managers”. This new application is designed to provides large investors an ability… Read More

April 14, 2015 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendKey, an online lending platform that connects local banks to borrowers, announced it has received a “conditional” commitment of up to $1 billion for student loan consolidation originated on the LendKey site.  The financing was from MidCap Financial, managed by a subsidiary of Apollo Global… Read More

April 14, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Ron Suber  |  

In the world of finance, the traditional banking industry is the big celestial body at the center of things. Circling that orbit are the spheres of money transfer, payments, wealth management, banking and marketplace lending (also called peer-to-peer finance). Disruption to financial services has been… Read More

April 13, 2015 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Former Citigroup executive Vinayak Gurjar has joined marketplace lender CommonBond as Chief Risk Officer.  Gurjar joins a growing number of traditional banking managers switching over to new, fast growing financial firms.  While the banking industry has suffered years of slow growth, crushing regulations and a… Read More

April 13, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Bill Ullman  |  

  Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…” Former US Supreme Court Judge Louis Brandeis The old guard is trying to define marketplace lending as part of a murky “shadow banking” industry.  Banking analyst Richard Bove concluded in a recent Rafferty Capital Markets… Read More

April 12, 2015 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

CreditEase, a China based peer to peer lender and wealth management company, has partnered with US based Wellington Management to invest in pre-IPO stage companies, according to a report in the China Daily. The agreement is described as one where CreditEase will provide the capital… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

VPC Specialty Lending Investments has invested $11.7 million by way of a balance sheet loan in Avant a Chicago based company that offers consumer credit. VPC will now have committed more than 37% of the net IPO proceeds. Victory Park Capital Advisors, VPC’s investment manager,… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

The very first peer to peer lending platform to grace the UK has announced a new milestone. Zopa has announced topping £800 in loans (over $1.16 billion for the yanks) and has returned £50 million in interest to investors.  Over a third of the interest… Read More

April 9, 2015 @ 11:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

On April 7, 2015, P2P industry pioneers: Lend Academy Investments and Nickel Steamroller announced that they had a completed a merger that resulted in the creation NSR Invest, a new P2P analytics and investment platform designed to support the distinct needs of financial advisors their retail… Read More

April 9, 2015 @ 4:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to Guan Jianzhong of Dagong Global, a company that monitors and rates peer to peer lending platforms, of the 1,587 p2p platforms it observes, 393 have been blacklisted and an additional 668 were given risk warnings – a staggering percentage of active peer lenders in… Read More

April 9, 2015 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

San Francisco based ApplePie Capital, an internet funding portal that wants to “democratize access to capital and help franchise entrepreneurs achieve their dream” has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round as the stampede to invest in the future of finance continues.  ApplePie… Read More

April 9, 2015 @ 7:57 am By JD Alois  |  

P2P lender Ratesetter has targeted the art sector by partnering with the Creative Industry Finance to fund artistic and cultural enterprises. Explaining that the UK creative sector is worth £71 billion per year to the economy, Ratesetter will now offer P2P finance solutions to the businesses… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 8:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prosper Marketplace has closed a $165 million funding round led by Credit Suisse Group’s Next Investors.  The valuation was set at approximately $1.9 billion – a significant increase to previous valuations. Additional investors included JP Morgan Chase & Co’s Asset Management unit, SunTrust Banks, USAA,… Read More