Tagged: renaud laplanche

February 4, 2015 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC) founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche is making the rounds talking up his most recent partnership.  Earlier this week Lending Club and Alibaba announced a unique arrangement where peer to peer lending platform would provide loans for US based companies that purchase from Chinese firms…. Read More

February 3, 2015 @ 7:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), the China based internet conglomerate, has formed a partnership with Lending Club (NYSE: LC), the largest peer to peer lender in the world.  According to multiple reports, the relationship would facilitated US based businesses to receive lines of credit from $5000 to $300,000… Read More

January 15, 2015 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Tech giant Google (NASD: GOOG) and leading peer to peer lending platform Lending Club (NYSE: LC), have formed a new partnership to facilitate low-interest financing to “eligible Google partners”.  Shares in Lending Club jumped over 8% on the news. The program presently only available in the US allows… Read More

January 12, 2015 @ 9:33 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

  As far as the peer-to-peer or marketplace lending industry is concerned, 2014 ended with a bang and not a whimper as Lending Club, the leading online lender, completed its initial public offering. On December 10, 2014 the Lending Club offering went effective, and ultimately… Read More

January 8, 2015 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The largest peer to peer lending platform in the world, Lending Club (NYSE: LC), has formed another partnership.  Adding to the recent announcement they are working with the Women’s Chamber of Commerce (USWCC), Lending Club is now partnering with SCORE – a source of free and confidential… Read More

January 7, 2015 @ 1:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC), an online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, announced on Wednesday (January 7th) the launch of a partnership with the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce (USWCC) to help women business owners access affordable credit. At Women’s Business Loans, women business owners can apply online in… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 6:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC), the  first publicly traded peer to peer lending platform, continues its expansion across the United States.  The company has shared its platforms is now available for investors based in Massachusetts.  All peer to peer lending platforms must deal with a wide… Read More

December 11, 2014 @ 4:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club, the largest peer to peer lender in the world, will finally list shares today as their public offer trades on the New York Stock Exchange.  Trading under the symbol “LC”, this IPO is described as a bellwether for the entire P2P lending industry…. Read More

December 1, 2014 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

In an amended S1 filing today, Lending Club revealed the proposed maximum offering price per share, along with the aggregate offering amount.  The document filed with the SEC indicates 57,700,000 shares may be sold at a price of up to $12 / share.  The prospectus… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 11:24 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Lending Club, the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, today launched a new “SuperPrime” loan product offering that expands the options available to borrowers with the highest credit quality.This new product line provides a two-year AA term loan for $10,000 or less (with… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The worlds largest peer to peer lending platform Lending Club has introduced new products leveraging their acquisition of Springstone.  The Lending Club subsidiary will now offer a new “education and patient financing product”.  The new product and practices are “designed to raise standards for transparency… Read More

October 19, 2014 @ 9:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Lending Club has selected the New York Stock Exchange as their venue to list the much anticipated initial public offering. According to multiple reports, but first advanced in the FT, Lending Club has followed the path of several high profile… Read More

August 27, 2014 @ 3:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanly to Act as Joint Leads. In a widely anticipated move, peer to peer lending platform Lending Club has filed their S-1 registration with the SEC to launch their initial public offering (IPO).  Lending Club made the announcement with an official… Read More

June 2, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

Groucho Marx said he refused to be a member of any club that would accept him, but he never heard of Lending Club. When walking through their offices in downtown San Francisco, past the foosball and ping pong tables, mini golf course that mazes around… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche recently visited the studios of Bloomberg (once again) to talk about his fast growing peer to peer lending platform.  In this brief discussion Renaud touches on the fact that Lending Club creates a more efficient market where both… Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hitting the screens of CNBC today was Lending Club CEO Renaud LaPlanche talking about how his company is going to transform the banking industry. Instead of just steam rolling the old school industry, apparently Lending Club would like to bring them along – indicative of… Read More

May 5, 2014 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club and Union Bank have formed a strategic alliance. Under the new agreement, Union Bank will purchase personal loans from Lending Club, and the two companies will work together to create new credit products to be made available to both companies’ customer base.  Union… Read More

April 17, 2014 @ 9:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

P2P lending platform Lending Club has announced the acquisition of Springstone Financial for $140 million in stock and cash.  Springstone is a financial service business that provides affordable options for consumers looking to finance private education and medical procedures.  Springstone brings along a network of over… Read More

April 14, 2014 @ 2:02 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche spoke with The Street recently about Lending Club’s growth and long-term goals as a platform. He didn’t shy away from the platform’s ultimate goal, which is to disrupt and bring increased efficiency to the banking sector. He also spoke briefly… Read More

April 9, 2014 @ 3:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche has taken a very interesting path to becoming the CEO of the largest peer lending platform in the United States. In a collaboration between the Kauffman Foundation and the Khan Academy, Laplanche shares a bit of that story and his… Read More