Teaching the World About Peer to Peer Lending
During the week I share the latest marketplace lending and fintech 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. LendingClub and OnDeck Earnings, KABB 2017-1 Deep Dive from PeerIQ – The PeerIQ newsletter has LendingClub and OnDeck […]
Often in these pages we focus on the more established online lenders, many that have been around for 10 years or more now. But there are a small number of online lenders that launched more recently who are making a name for themselves. One company that we believe has a bright future is LendingPoint. Founded […]
Last year I wrote a piece about many of the companies who have participated in LendIt Fintech’s startup competition over the year. For that article we reached out to each company to get an update on the company’s progress. We shared that, given the information we had available, Sharestates was the most successful company to participate […]
Over the last couple of years we have seen something of a converge between payments and credit businesses. We have PayPal, Square, iZettle and others, all primarily focused on payments, entering the credit space. But perhaps the best example of this convergence is a company called PayU, a fintech business based in Europe. While PayU […]
What do you do when most of your potential customers base has no financial data whatsoever? When it comes to expanding access to credit for low income earners, who are often unbanked, new approaches are needed. New groundbreaking work is being done by a few enterprising entrepreneurs who are using psychometric testing as a way […]
I think we can all agree that the future of banking is going to look very different to how it is today. But what exactly needs to change and why? While many of us have some theories our next guest on the Lend Academy Podcast has provided a detailed picture of how he thinks this […]
