During the week I share the latest p2p 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.

Random Thoughts – PeerCube: Founders’ Loan Filter for Lending Club (The people behind Peercube explain the filters they use to invest in Lending Club)

Mr. Money Mustache – The Lending Club Experiment (Popular personal finance blogger gives his thoughts on why he invested $10K in Lending Club)

Money Talks News – Ask Stacy: Is Peer-to-Peer Lending a Pyramid Scheme? (A reader asks if the borrowers on Lending Club and Prosper are real)

Grubnotes – P2P investments, perfect for lazy investors like myself! (Long time Lending Club investor talks about a change in the direction of his investments)

Money Q&A – Lending Club Update And Returns – September 2012 (Another change in strategy from a Lending Club investor)

Wall Street Journal – Looking for the ‘Next Big Thing’? Ranking the Top 50 Start-Ups (Prosper is ranked #4 in this prestigious list)

Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance – WHERE TO GET A HIGH RETURN ON MY CASH (Personal finance blogger shares her thoughts on Prosper after one year of investing)

Lending Club – Investor Updates and Enhancements (the blog post announcing the recent changes to their platform)

During the week I share the latest p2p 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.

Random Thoughts – Mrs. RT: From Lending Club Night to PeerCube Night (How Peercube is being used to filter and select notes on Lending Club). I will be reviewing Peercube in an upcoming post.

Lending Club – Google This: “Searching for Better Yields” (Interesting to see Google is starting to look at alternative asset classes to invest their huge cash war chest).

Prosper – August, 2012 Investor Monthly Update (Comparison of Prosper notes with corporate bonds and some commentary about the current economic environment).

Informilo – Social Lending (Canadian academic Don Tapscott gives his thoughts on p2p lending and its impact on banking).

Nerd Wallet – P2P Lending: Borrowing Beyond The Bank (Good primer on p2p lending and direct p2p along with a comparison chart).

Bible Money Matters – Searching For Better Yields? Lending Club Could Be The Ticket In Tough Economic Times: Returns At 12% (Long time Lending Club investor and blogger shares his returns, his strategy and some cool p2p lending facts).

Everything Finance – Why People are Scared of P2P Lending (New investor gives her thoughts about why some people don’t jump on the p2p lending band wagon).

The Fine Print – Government to Challenge Financial Red Tape (UK blogger provides insight into UK government plans to regulate p2p lending across the pond).

Sustainable Life Blog – Lending Club 6 Month Update (Small investor gives an update on his Lending Club investments).

P2P Analytics – LENDING CLUB NOTE AVAILABILITY & NEW INDEX FOR SUBSCRIBERS (New Lending Club analytics site provides an update along with a chart showing historical days in funding).

 

 

Next month in Las Vegas is the inaugural Money2020 conference. You may not have heard of it but they are billing themselves as a “groundbreaking event for emerging payments and financial services”.

The list of speakers is pretty impressive, even more so now that my name has been added to the list… Yes, I will be participating in a panel on p2p lending along with Renaud Laplanche of Lending Club, Kirk Inglis of Prosper and Steve Rabago of ZimpleMoney. I am curious to see how many of these cutting edge financial types are interested in p2p lending. I will report back after the conference.

Here is the official speil from the conference organizers about Money2020:

Money2020 Expo is a groundbreaking event for emerging payments and financial services, bringing together innovators in money to create the definitive industry community. Whether you’re established or startup, if you’re working hard to disrupt the status quo, Money2020 is for you.

Money2020 spans the entire long tail of the evolution of money — from novel saving solutions, to new spending value propositions, to evolving forms of lending.

If you are interested in going they have given me a special 20% off coupon to share with my readers. The coupon code is PRENT2020. And if you decide to go be sure to let me know, I would love to catch up.

During the week I share the latest p2p 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.

Random Thoughts – Introducing PeerCube: Smart Lending with Peer Insights for Lending Club (introducing a new analysis site for Lending Club investors).

Nickel Steamroller – September P2P Investing Update (long time blogger shares an update on his Lending Club and Prosper investments).

P2P Money Blog – Zopa to drop C and Y markets (Interesting move from Zopa in the UK in dropping their highest risk borrowers from now on).

Wall Street Journal – Student-Loan Online Start-Up Gets Financing (VC’s must see a big future for this new startup focusing on student loans – they just invested $77 million!).

Prosper to Retire – August 2012 | 25.53% Effective Annual ROI | 9.34% Overall Return with Prosper.com (New Prosper investor shares his progress).

Afluenta – AFLUENTA.COM RELEASES THE FIRST COLLABORATIVE FINANCIAL NETWORK IN LATINAMERICA (Press release about the first p2p lender launching in Argentina).

Everything Finance – P2P Lending With Lending Club: A Review (A new Lending Club investor shares some thoughts).

Nickel Steamroller – Boosting Your Prosper Automated Quick Invest Return With Sorting (Discusses the sorting feature when searching for loans on Prosper).

Prosper to Retire – P2P Lending 104 – How should I start? (Some ideas for new investors at Prosper).

Lending Tuber – Words with Lends (Presenting some analysis done on words used in the description field of Lending Club loans).

Every Saturday I bring you the latest news from the world of peer to peer lending. These are the best of the news articles and blog posts from around the web that I shared on Twitter this past week.

News was sparse in this holiday shortened week, you should be able to read all five articles below in just a few minutes. This weekend I am at the Financial Bloggers Conference, known as Fincon12, which is in Denver this year just three miles from my house. Very convenient. Over 400 financial geeks like myself are learning, sharing and having a good time. I will be sharing the short presentation I did here next week. Enjoy your weekend.

Quora – P2P Lending: As the P2P space continues to grow, how can new entrants differentiate themselves from incumbents such as Lending Club and Prosper?

Pinch That Penny – Lending Club Update – September 2012

Lending Club (press release) – Former E*TRADE General Counsel Joins Lending Club

Random Thoughts – Mrs. RT: Avoiding Early Pay-offs at Lending Club

P2P Analytics – NOTE POPULARITY AND LENDING CLUB INVESTMENT STRATEGY (PART 1)

Every Saturday I bring you the latest news from the world of peer to peer lending. These are the best of the news articles and blog posts from around the web that I shared on Twitter this past week.

It was a very light news week to say the least. The biggest news item of the week was one that was not very flattering to p2p lending at all. I am ok with writers not liking p2p lending as an investment but I don’t appreciate it when a widely read website makes false and misleading statements which is the case on this Business Insider article below. I had to make a comment which they thankfully published. In more positive news it is good to see SocietyOne making some headway in the p2p lending space down under. Enjoy your long weekend.

Business Insider – Think Twice Before You Jump On The Peer-To-Peer Investing Bandwagon

Brave New Life – Lending Club Update: August 2012

Australian Anthill – How P2P Lending is Making its way Down Under

Money Talks News – 8 Ways to Earn More on Your Savings

National Family Mortgage – National Family Mortgage Hits $50 Million in Peer-to-Peer Lending (press release)

Every Saturday I bring you the latest news from the world of peer to peer lending. These are the best of the news articles and blog posts from around the web that I shared on Twitter this past week.

Everyone should check out the latest Prosper blog post below. Their July investor update shared this interesting tidbit: credit card delinquencies in the U.S. are the lowest on record, despite the fact that we still have high unemployment and a sluggish economy. Fascinating. There was also an excellent article this week on Kung Fu Finance by Larry from Investor Junkie, who frequently appears in these news roundups with his own blog. There were also a few Lending Club updates from bloggers. Enjoy your weekend.

Five Cent Nickel – Lending Club Update – August 2012

BBHart.com – Lending Club update – 10 months later

Kung Fu Finance – Adventures in Income…Peer-to-Peer Investing

Shareable – The Quickstart Guide to Peer to Peer Lending (my guest post)

Troy Davis – EXAMINING BORROWER PRIVACY IN PEER-TO-PEER LENDING

Prosper – July, 2012 Investor Monthly Update

Random Thoughts – Lending Club Loan Amount: Defaults for Credit Grade B Loans

Wall Street Oasis – WSO CDO Update August 2012

Every Saturday I bring you the latest news from the world of peer to peer lending. These are the best of the news articles and blog posts from around the web that I shared on Twitter this past week.

The most interesting article of the week in my opinion was the Lending Club blog post. It is good to see Lending Club putting more effort into their blog after letting it languish for most of the past year. This article discusses research done by famous bond market guru Bill Gross and his opinion on where the bond and stock markets are heading – good news for p2p lending. We also have new offerings for investors coming for P2P Analytics and Prosper to Retire. Lots of interesting things happening for p2p investors. Enjoy your weekend.

BBC Radio (UK) – Fixing Broken Banking

Prosper to Retire – NumberWhale.com – P2P Investing Tool

Learn Bonds – How Ken Earns 16% Investing in Prosper Loans

Funding Knight (UK) – Crowdlending: A better name for peer to peer lending?

Lending Club – The Death of Equities and the Growth of Lending Club

Prosper to Retire – July 2012 | 21.89% Effective | 7.06% Overall ROI with Prosper

Random Thoughts – Lending Club Loan Amount: Defaults for Credit Grade A Loans

P2P Analytics – SO HOW DOES THE LENDING CLUB ALGORITHM WORK? (LENDING CLUB STRATEGY)

Everything Finance Blog – Peer to Peer Lending: Cautions and Considerations