Tagged: p2p

June 25, 2015 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Direct lender CommonBond has completed its first securitization backed by graduate student loans.  The $100 million securitization received investment grade ratings from both Moody’s and DBRS of Baa2 and A (high) respectively.  Morgan Stanley served as lead underwriter and sole manager for the transaction. White… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender LendInvest has received an SQ1 Servicer Quality rating with a stable outlook from ARC ratings. According to ARC the rating was based on the following criteria: General: The primary servicer rating reflects LendI General: nvest’s robust internal controls/systems, servicing experience in the… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 11:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Irish peer to peer lender Linked Finance has topped € 10 million in lending to small businesses.  Linked Finance expects to increase this number to € 20 million by the end of this year. The first p2p lender in Ireland has been running a series of ads… Read More

June 21, 2015 @ 10:38 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

ThinCats Australia, among the latest peer-to-peer lenders to join the Australian market, is on the prowl for strategic investors as it prepares for a potential initial public offering, notes the Australian Financial Review. The FR writes, It’s understood ThinCats Australia, backed by UK-parent ThinCats, is in discussions with… Read More

June 20, 2015 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bricks Financial, founded in 2014, has opened up operations in Exeter as they seek to offer investors the opportunity to “high quality projects” in the region for borrowers who are  “local businesses, individuals and friends where banks are unable or unwilling to help”.  The new peer… Read More

June 19, 2015 @ 12:55 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Update on a $150 million fundraising round in progress: Chinese online lender Dianrong.com is raising funds in a round that values the startup at about $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, notes BloombergBusiness. Investors include Standard Chartered Plc, a British multinational banking and financial services… Read More

June 18, 2015 @ 8:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC, a listed fund that invests in peer to peer lending assets, has confirmed that the companies shares qualify for ISA inclusion. HM Revenue & Customs have announced that commending July 1, 2o15, savers may take advantage of this new asset… Read More

June 18, 2015 @ 3:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bond Street Marketplace,  a direct lender for small business, has closed an equity / debt financing round in the amount of $110 million led by Spark Capital and Jefferies. New participants include Slow Ventures, Eagle Cliff, Nathan Blecharczyk (Co-Founder of Airbnb), David Chang (Chef and founder of… Read More

June 17, 2015 @ 3:16 pm By Bill Ullman  |  

On Thursday, June 11, RiverNorth Marketplace Lending Corporation filed an N-2 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.  RiverNorth is a Chicago-based investment management firm founded in 2000 that specializes in opportunistic investment strategies.   Many of RiverNorth’s investment products are structured as Closed End… Read More

June 17, 2015 @ 2:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seema Paterson, head of corporate affairs at Edinburgh’s peer-to-peer lender LendingCrowd, has been appointed director of UK Crowdfunding Association. According to DailyRecord, Paterson joined LendingCrowd last December from Tangent Communications Plc, where she was head of corporate development and investor relations. Prior to Tangent, Paterson was a managing director of… Read More

June 17, 2015 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

SoFi, a four year old direct lender that is dominating the student loan refinance space, has stated it expects to do over $1 billion in securitization in Q3 alone.  SoFi has completed 5 previous securitization’s with a total volume of $1.55 billion so this will… Read More

June 17, 2015 @ 1:54 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK tax authority, will allow savers to hold peer-to-peer lending investment trusts in their Individual Savings Accounts (ISA), according to CityWire Money. The change will take effect July 1–in about two weeks. The move is part of the government’s alternative… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Times Dealbook section published an article yesterday about Goldman Sachs entering the peer to peer, or marketplace lending space. This was really old news as Quartz had covered it soon after Harit Talwar announced his departure from Discover in April.  Shelly Banjo… Read More

June 15, 2015 @ 11:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Leading peer to peer lending site LendInvest has received a £22 million investment from Chinese internet firm Beijing Kunlun. This is according to an article in the FT but was also referenced in a Board Meeting release from earlier this week. Christian Faes, co-founder and… Read More

June 15, 2015 @ 8:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading peer to peer lending platform, Lending Club, has formed a partnership with the Opportunity Fund, an entity that targets community based lending.  Announced that the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI America), the agreement is designed to help provide capital for small businesses in California. Former… Read More

June 15, 2015 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Money360, a commercial real estate peer to peer lending platform, has hire Laura Catalino as a Senior VP to manage investor relations. “Online marketplace lenders such as Money360 are providing commercial real estate borrowers with more loan options than ever, while also offering investors a… Read More

June 14, 2015 @ 10:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

With new rules pending, the peer to peer lending market is jostling for position.  CreditEase, the first P2P lender in China, recently cemented an agreement with China Guanfa Bank as part of a push to assure investors their money is safe. According to a report… Read More

June 12, 2015 @ 11:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, Gurgaon-based peer-to-peer lending platform Faircent announced it has raised ₹250,000 in its pre-series A round, which was led by M&S Partners Pte. Ltd. Faircent is said to be India’s largest P2P lending site.  The platform has been in operation since mid 2014 and… Read More

June 12, 2015 @ 8:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The Moneywise Custome Service Awards 2015 took place this week.  Described as the “authoritative stamp of approval by the UK consumer” recognition is given to financial service firms for providing exemplary service to their customers.  In recent years as finance has altered direction and moved… Read More

June 11, 2015 @ 4:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyMogul, an online capital markets portal for real estate investing, announced today that it had successfully completed its equity capital raise for a multi-tenant medical office building in a large metropolitan area in Texas. RealtyMogul’s accredited investors used its peer-to-peer marketplace to help purchase the property…. Read More