During the week I share the latest marketplace lending news on Twitter as it happens. Then every Saturday I take the most interesting news items and blog posts from the past week and share them here. Weekly Industry Update: October 23, 2016 from PeerIQ – The PeerIQ newsletter this week digs into the Discover personal loan […]
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KPMG and H2 Ventures Release the Global Fintech 100
This week KPMG and H2 Ventures released their third annual Fintech 100 list. This list is actually two lists of 50. The first list called the Leading 50 highlights those established fintech companies that are true leaders in their field. The second list is called Emerging Stars and as the name implies features those newer companies […]
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Lending Club Moves into Auto Lending with New Refinance Product
Back in April at LendIt USA 2016, Lending Club teased that they would be announcing a new consumer lending product in June. This was pushed back following the subsequent news that rocked the marketplace lending industry. Now just a few months later Lending Club has officially announced their move into auto lending with a refinance product focused […]
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Podcast 77: Nat Hoopes of the Marketplace Lending Association
The Marketplace Lending Association (MLA) launched in April of this year with three members: Lending Club, Prosper and Funding Circle. There have been many other initiatives that have launched in the past year but the MLA is the first one to have hired a full time person in Washington DC. In the latest edition of the Lend Academy […]
Podcast 76: Scott Sanborn of Lending Club
Lending Club has endured some very public challenges this year as we all know. But the company has rebounded from the lows they experienced after the resignation of the founder, Renaud Laplanche, and they are building again for the future. The new CEO, Scott Sanborn, has rebuilt his executive team with many new faces from traditional financial […]
Podcast 75: Mike Baliman of the London Fintech Podcast
The UK was the country that invented peer to peer lending. And London is considered to be one of the top fintech hubs on the planet. One of the leading sectors of fintech is peer to peer lending and Mike Baliman, the creator of the London Fintech Podcast, has been following along very closely. Mike has a […]