Tagged: marketplace

June 16, 2020 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital assets exchange OKEx announced on Monday it has formed a strategic partnership with peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace, Paxful. Through the partnership, the Paxful Kiosk will notably be integrated directly within the OKEx platform to allow new and existing users to benefit from a variety of… Read More

June 13, 2020 @ 7:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

  dv01 has recently published another report tracking the impact of COVID-19 on the online lending marketplace. dv01 is a top data aggregator tracking the online lending industry. dv01 connects directly with the largest online lenders in the consumer world to, normalizing loan data, providing… Read More

June 1, 2020 @ 1:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) Global Chief Risk Officer Jerome Le Luel has posted on update on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on platform operations. Le Luel said that while the full economic impact of the virus remains unknown and it is too early to predict… Read More

May 29, 2020 @ 2:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Atterley.com, a UK-based marketplace for independent fashion retailers, has successfully secured its initial £400,000 funding target through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. As previously reported, Atterley.com’s mission is to bring together discerning fashion consumers, and the inventory fo the “best” boutiques and independents around… Read More

May 29, 2020 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

The online lending industry has probably suffered more than any other sector of Fintech during the COVID-19 crisis. Borrowers, both businesses and consumers have paused payments in droves. Many individuals have lost their jobs. Businesses have shuttered, some permanently. While many governments have moved swiftly… Read More

May 28, 2020 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

  LendingClub (NYSE:LC), an online lending marketplace and emerging digital bank, has announced the launch of the “Member Center,” a centralized location for users to find assistance and support to better manage their financial lives during the COVID-19 crisis. Early one, when the Coronavirus first… Read More

May 24, 2020 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Zopa, the one platform to launch an entire sector of Fintech as it became the first peer to peer lending platform in the UK, recently reintroduced C risk loans back into its Plus product offering. Zopa, which still offers online lending in a more… Read More

May 22, 2020 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Late last week, Prosper Marketplace filed its first-quarter report on operations and the document provides some insight into how the marketplace lender is faring during an economic landscape impacted by the Coronavirus. Overall, Prosper has originated $17.1 billion since platform inception through March 31, 2020…. Read More

May 20, 2020 @ 10:31 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, a European lending marketplace, has topped €630,377 in a securities offering on Seedrs. Launched at the beginning of this month, EstateGuru set a minimum hurdle of €350,000 but quickly surpassed that goal. EstateGuru is seeking a maximum of €2 million on Seedrs as part… Read More

May 11, 2020 @ 2:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fitch Ratings is out with a note on the impact of COVID-19 and US marketplace loan portfolios. According to Fitch, the Coronavirus and affiliated rise in unemployment will lead to “significant performance degradation in U.S. Marketplace Loan (MPL) portfolios.” Even more grim is that Fitch… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingClub (NYSE: LC) is out with its first-quarter earnings report and the numbers are indicative of the problematic economy that has been crushed by the Coronavirus pandemic. LendingClub, the leading marketplace lender in the US, delivered numbers that showed a significant decline versus the same… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, an online marketplace for loans secured by property, has quickly topped its minimum crowdfunding hurdle on Seedrs. EstateGuru set a minimum raise of €350,000 but as of today, the Fintech has raised over €483,000 from 548 individual investors. EstateGuru is hoping to raise €2… Read More

May 5, 2020 @ 11:42 am By JD Alois  |  

  Mintos, a top marketplace for debt investors in Europe, has recently conducted research amongst their audience seeking to gain insight into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Mintos, the majority of crowdlending investors (65%) remain optimistic even in light of the ongoing… Read More

April 29, 2020 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Atterley.com, a UK-based marketplace for independent fashion retailers, is now seeking a minimum of £400,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube.  Founded in 2012, Atterley.com’s mission is to bring together discerning fashion consumers and the inventory fo the “best” boutiques and independents around the… Read More

April 17, 2020 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

SME Marketplace lending platform Funding Circle (LSE:FCH) has been approved by the British Busines Bank as a lender under the  Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). The online lender becomes one of a handful of Fintechs in the UK facilitating the program. Funding Circle said… Read More

April 13, 2020 @ 4:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prosper, a marketplace lending platform providing consumer credit as well as HELOCs, filed its most recent 10K late last month. At the time, the COVID-19 pandemic in the US was picking up pace. As is typical of these filings for all companies, Prosper included a… Read More

April 9, 2020 @ 4:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingClub (NYSE:LC) has filed a new form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Form “FWP” states that LendingClub has suspended the facilitation of new D Grade loans as of April 10, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, LendingClub has taken measures to… Read More

March 23, 2020 @ 5:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingClub (NYSE:LC), the leading marketplace lending platform in the US, has issued another 8K outlining moves the company has taken to gird its platform during the Coronavirus pandemic. Last week, LendingClub issued a similar 8K outlining moves it had taken as interest rates and credit… Read More

March 20, 2020 @ 3:16 pm By Therese Torris  |  

The management of October, the Paris-headquartered European SME lending marketplace, announced today a three-month freeze on capital repayment in order to support the business continuity of its SME borrowers during the coronavirus crisis. A Capital Reimbursement Freeze The moratorium concerns loans granted by October to… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 10:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bidvine, a UK-based online service marketplace, has successfully secured its initial £2.75 million funding target through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2014, Bidvine claims to be the fast, free way to get competing quotes for local services from interested, available professionals. “[The… Read More