UK-based business lender Growth Street announced recently announced that investor returns up by 16.7% in 2018 through its peer-to-peer investment platform. Founded in 2013, Growth Street’s main mission is to help businesses grow. The platform has already matched £175 million of investors’ funds with growing businesses since… Read More
Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform Hexindai (NASDAQ: HX) announced on Friday it signed a cooperation agreement with Shanxi Zhengxuan Finance Guarantee Co., Ltd., which reportedly is controlled by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC), to provide investors on its platform with insurance coverage that… Read More
UK based peer-to-peer lender RateSetter announced last week the results of its 2017-2018 financial year, which ended on March 31, 2018. The lending platform reported that revenues were up by 47% (which was £34.3 million) from the previous year (£23.4 million). The company noted that the… Read More
Orca Money’s crowdfunding campaign is going as smoothly as expected. The P2P investment aggregation platform linked with Seedrs and launched to raise £500,007 campaign yesterday and has already secured over £346,745 from more than 91 investors toward its goal. Co-Founded by CEO Iain Niblock and Jordan Stodart in 2015, Orca… Read More
Australia-based marketplace lender SocietyOne announced on Tuesday it has reached $500 million in loan originations across its personal loan, agri lending, and marketplace business, and is now setting its sights on reaching $1 billion by the end of 2019. The news comes less than a month after… Read More
Just a little over a week after launching its latest equity crowdfunding round on Seedrs, Short-term peer-to-peer lending platform Welendus has successfully secured its initial £850,000 funding target. Founded in 2015, Welendus seeks to redefine the short-term lending market by launching a peer-to-peer short-term lending platform… Read More
Short-term peer-to-peer lending platform Welendus has returned to equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs to raise £850,000 in funding. The lender’s latest initiative comes less than one year after it secured £208,898 through the funding portal. As previously reported, Welendus was founded in 2015 and aims to re-define the short-term lending market by… Read More
In preparation of its Lending Challenge, the P2P investment aggregation provider Orca partnered with UK P2P Lending Knowledge Leaderboard and posted a quiz targeting investors and industry players to see how much people know about the P2P knowledge. Neither questions nor answers will be posted here to keep the quiz… Read More
Last week Robo.cash surpassed a €4M investment milestone and briefly commented on new studies conducted by its analytical center. Today the Latvian P2P lending platform Robo.cash tweeted a detailed infographic and Founder and CEO Sergey Sedov explained the findings on TechBullion: the younger generation of investors who consider P2P lending… Read More
Alternative lending observes a continuously increasing number of Millennials and Generation Z, according to the Latvian P2P platform Robo.cash. This growth is supported by the interest of young investors in a “simple and comfortable source of additional income” and the positive experience gained at the… Read More
Online P2P lender Lending Loop has partnered with the Ontario government to launch a pilot project that will provide $3M in loans over the next two years, according to the Globe and Mail. The article indicated that the Ontario government will boost Toronto-based Lending Loop’s… Read More
Last week, Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform Senmiao Technology announces terms for its upcoming $14 million U.S. initial public offering (IPO). Founded in 2014, Senmiao Technology offers director loans and assignment of loans to medium-size enterprise, borrowers, and creditors. According to Renaissance Capital, the online lender plans to… Read More
The European online alternative finance market grew by 41 per cent to 7.7 billion euros in 2016, according to the 3rd annual European Alternative Finance Industry Benchmarking Report by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. The report entitled “Expanding Horizons” indicates that online alternative finance showed… Read More
In February, the alternative lending platform Robo.cash will extend its operations into Switzerland. “Switzerland is a strong internationally oriented financial center with a long-standing history of the crowdfunding market,” indicated Robo.cash Founder and CEO Sergey Sedov. “We believe that the Swiss investors will greatly appreciate the opportunity… Read More
Spanish marketplace lending platform, LoanBook, closed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with a total of £737,450 from 297 investors. The funding round was launched in November and looked to raise £650,000. As previously reported, LoanBook was founded in 2013 and claims to be Spain’s… Read More
LoanBook, a Spanish marketplace lending platform, has successfully secured its initial £650,000 funding target from more than 200 investors through equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Founded in 2013, LoanBook claims to be Spain’s largest marketplace lending platform, with a 4-year track record of working capital lending to Spanish… Read More
Kabbage, Inc., a global financial services, technology and data platform serving small businesses, has extended over $4 billion to more than 130,000 small businesses, serving the largest customer base than any online small business lender. These landmarks represent an approximate 30-percent increase in total funding… Read More
Less than a week after launching its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, short-term peer-to-peer lending platform Welendus has successfully secured its initial 150,000 funding target from more than 100 investors. As previously reported, Welendus was founded in 2015 and aims to re-define the short-term lending market… Read More
Short-term peer-to-peer lending platform Welendus has launched a new equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The online lender is now seeking £150,000 as it prepares to expand. This campaign launch comes less than a year after Welendus raised £117,580 on Seedrs. Welendus, which was founded in 2015, aims to re-define… Read More
The UK altfin company Growth Street, which surpassed £100 million in online lending earlier this month, is now collaborating with University College London School of Management to give students first-hand experience of using business analytics in a fast-moving commercial environment. The students’ work, which concentrates on predicting a business’s… Read More
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