Tagged: matt symons

September 18, 2016 @ 8:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

SocietyOne, Australia’s largest marketplace lending platform, has rearranged the executive bench according to multiple reports. Founders Co-founders Matt Symons and Greg Symons (not related) have recently updated roles. Matt Symons will now become a non-executive director of the online lending firm. He is currently listed as… Read More

August 20, 2015 @ 10:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

SocietyOne co-founder Matt Symons said yesterday there was a strong correlation between the lender’s $200 million in loan ­applications and traffic on the get­creditscore.com website — a partnership with the nation’s leading credit bureau, Veda, reported The Australian‘s Richard Gluyas. More than 75,000 people have used the… Read More

July 24, 2015 @ 11:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SocietyOne, Australia’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, announced that Mitchel Harad has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Harad was the Vice President of Marketing of Lending Club, a leading direct lender with headquarters in San Francisco. Leading Lending Club’s borrower marketing efforts over the… Read More

March 25, 2015 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia based peer to peer lending platform SocietyOne has added to its executive team with the appointment of new Chief Operating Officer Simon Schwarz. The new hire will help position the platform for further growth as the P2P lending industry continues to disrupt traditional banks… Read More

December 3, 2014 @ 10:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

SocietyOne, described as Australia’s first and largest peer to peer lending platform, has announced a successful Series B funding round backed by a consortium of big name Australian investors including News Corp. Australia, Consolidated Press Holdings and Australian Capital Equity.  The big name investors include… Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

I guess this is a sign of success.  We announced earlier this week that Australian peer to peer lender SocietyOne was going to offer free credit scores on their stand alone site GetCreditScore. The site fired up couple days ago and it has not been… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australia based peer to peer (P2P) lender SocietyOne will start offering credit scores to customers free of charge this week.  SocietyOne is Australia’s only active P2P lender at this time – although competing companies are preparing to enter the market. According to a report in… Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

SocietyOne is changing the way loans are funded in Australia.  The company launched their first fully compliant Peer-to-Peer lending platform back in August of 2012.  SocietyOne operates their own proprietary loan management platform called ClearMatch which provides safe and secure online loan applications and document… Read More