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China: WeiyangX Fintech Review

CBRC Partners with 19 Banks to Establish Fintech Cloud Stack. By 2020, 60% of systems in China’s banking industry will be deployed in the cloud, most with the approval of the China Banking Regulatory Commission. According to the report, China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) has… Read More

FundingKnight, Part of GLI Finance, Receives Full FCA Authorisation

GLI Finance (AIM: GLIF) has announced that FundingKnight has been granted full Authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). FundingKnight is an online / P2P Lender providing access to capital for UK SMEs. FundingKnight has been operating under interim permissions since 2014, when the FCA… Read More

Funding Circle Germany Takes a Fresh Start

  Germany is a huge SME and VSME (very small business) credit market. But it is not as mature a market for online marketplace lending as the UK, the US, or even the Netherlands. This partly explains why Funding Circle Germany’s early loan book underperformed…. Read More

Chinese P2P Dianrong Announces Acquisition of Quark Finance

Chinese peer-to-peer lending platform Dianrong announced on Wednesday it has acquired Quark Finance’s asset-origination operations. According to the online lender, the transaction will expand and strengthen its existing asset generation capabilities across Asia. Dianrong reported that Quark Finance currently operates 71 borrower service centers in 47 Chinese… Read More

Lawsuit Against P2P Lender Yirendai Dismissed

Yirendai (NYSE:YRD), a China based peer to peer lender that is a sister company of CreditEase, has shared that a lawsuit filed against it in 2016 has been completely dismissed. The putative class action lawsuit was brought by multiple law firms pertaining to the decline in… Read More

P2P Lender Folk2Folk Launches “Local” IFISA

Folk2Folk has announced the launch of its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA). The P2P lender’s “local” ISA can give investors the opportunity to support British businesses within their local area whilst earning tax-free interest on the loans. Jane Dumeresque, CEO Folk2Folk, said they were delighted to… Read More

China Rapid Finance: 20 Million in Cumulative Loans Facilitated Since Marketplace Lending Platform Inception

China Rapid Finance announced on Monday it has exceeded 20 million cumulative loans facilitated since its marketplace lending platform launch. According to the lender, this new milestone demonstrates accelerating the growth of its consumer marketplace due to the fact that the number of facilitated loans… Read More

New Milestone: Australian Peer-to-Peer Lender SocietyOne Surpasses $300 Million in Total Originations

On Monday, Australia-based online lender SocietyOne announced it not only celebrated its five year anniversary, it has also surpassed $300 million in total originations. The platform revealed it advanced over $100 million of new lending during the first half of 2017 and its loan book increased… Read More

German Consumer Lender Auxmoney Passes the Half-Billion-Euro Mark

German online consumer lending marketplace auxmoney announced that it has crossed a new milestone: the marketplace has granted more than 70,000 loans worth more than €500 million in cumulated volume. Raffael Johnen, CEO of auxmoney, commented: “Half a billion euros worth of loans. This demonstrates… Read More

Happy Birthday, Landbay!: P2P Platform Celebrates Three Years of Online Lending

On Friday, UK-based peer-to-peer lending platform Landbay celebrated its third birthday. The online lender revealed that in the past three years, it has lent a total of £47.31 million, which is funding buy-to-let mortgages throughout the UK. CEO and co-founder, John Goodall shared details about the… Read More

Assetz Capital to Expand UK Broker Network to Further Scale P2P Business

Assetz Capital, a fast growing peer-to-peer finance platform, has outlined its intent to further develop its nationwide broker network, supported by its rapidly growing Regional Relationship Director team. The P2P lender explains that since 2014 brokers have played a key role in referring many small… Read More

New Milestone: Peer-to-Peer Lender Flender Celebrates First Wave of Successfully Funded SME Loans

The recently launched peer-to-peer lending platform, Flender, announced on Thursday it is celebrating the successful funding of its first batch of SME loans. According to the online lender, companies that received their requested funding include one of Europe’s fastest growing lingerie retailers, a café, and… Read More

LendingClub Adds Ken Denman, Venture Partner at Sway Ventures, to Board of Directors

LendingClub (NYSE: LC), the leading marketplace lending platform in the US, has added Kenneth Denman to its Board of Directors. LendingClub states the appointment took effect on June 28, 2017. Denman joins as a Class One director and will serve on the Audit and Compensation… Read More

Robo.Cash & Latvian Alternative Financial Services Association to Jointly Develop P2P Tech

ROBO.CASH and Latvian Alternative Financial Services Association have announced their intent to develop peer-to-peer technologies in Latvia. ROBOS.CASH is a part of the European financial holding group with affiliated credit companies in Spain (Prestamer.es), Russia (Zaymer.ru, FinTerra) and Kazakhstan (Zaimer.kz). The group, founded by Sergey… Read More

New Milestone: Orca Celebrates P2P Lending Achieving £10 Billion Mark (Infographic)

Orca Money, an independent data, research, and analysis provider in the UK P2P lending market, announced on Wednesday the peer-to-peer lending industry has surpassed its £10 billion mark. While sharing details about the new milestone, Orca stated: “Peer-to-peer lending has reached a significant milestone since Zopa launched… Read More

P2PFA Announces New Associate Membership, Publishes Names of First New Members

The Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) has created a new category of membership to boost its ranks and add perspective to the association that represents the UK’s top online lenders. The P2PFA was established in 2011 as the industry gained traction, acting as the representative and self-regulatory… Read More

The European Investment Bank Pledges €18.5 million to Finance Continental European SMEs through Lendix

The European Investment Bank Group (EIB) through the European Investment Fund (EIF) has announced that it will provide €18.5 million to back a joint investment fund designed to lend money to SMEs through crowdlending platform Lendix. The EIB is the European Union’s bank, owned by… Read More

Kuflink Debuts Property-Backed Innovative Finance ISA & New Investment Options

UK-based peer-to-peer lending platform Kuflink has launched its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) and also two investment options. This news comes just a few months after the online lender received full authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Kuflink was set up in April 2016, and the… Read More

P2P Lender VIAINVEST Hits €10 Million in Funded Loans

Newly launched peer to peer lending platform VIAINVEST has announced topping €10 million in loans. The 7 month old Latvian platform said consumer loans issued by VIA SMS Group, came from the Czech Republic, Poland, Latvia and Spain. These loans were funded by investors from more… Read More

UK Peer-to-Peer Lender Flender Launches Innovative Finance ISA

Just weeks after gaining full authorisation from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), social-circle peer-to-peer lender Flender announced this week it is launching an Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) offering businesses and consumers a more tax-efficient way of investing. As previously reported, Flender secured £501,700 from more… Read More

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