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.
Office Space: Bankers, techies work side-by-side at Lending Club from SFGate – Ever wonder what it is like to work at Lending Club? This articles takes you behind the scenes with foosball, mini golf, a spa and more.
Orchard’s Top Data Visualizations of 2014 from Orchard – The best charts that Orchard produced in the past year.
Biz2Credit Gets $250 Million Commitment from Techcrunch – Direct Lending Investments, run by Brendan Ross, is making a huge commitment to Biz2Credit, a small business lending platform.
Friends with Benefits from Comstock’s – This financial advisor thinks P2P lending is “the free market at its best”.
Online Lending’s ‘Massive Growth Trajectory’ from GlobeSt.com – An interview with Realty Mogul CEO, Jilliene Helman, about the potential of marketplace lending for real estate.
Peer Lending 2015: Competition, IPOs and More Growth from Peer Loans Online – A look at the year ahead from this new blogger.
Cloud Lending CEO Snehal Fulzele: Technology Enabler for Disruptive Minds in Financial Markets from Crowdfund Insider – An interview with the leading software provider in the marketplace lending industry.
The Great Divide in P2P Lending: Institutional Demand and the Little Guy from Write Your Own Reality – Excellent article about the impact on small retail investors of the institutional investor dominance.
Zopa to launch product for retirement savers from The Financial Times – With the UK laws for pensions changing this year the marketplace lenders are gearing up to help retirees.
Prosper CEO’s oil patch foray goes bust from San Francisco Business Times – A candid interview with Aaron Vermut about investing.
Peer & Social Lending 2014 Wrap Up from Peer & Social Lending – Some highlights from 2014.
Peer-to-peer lending: the next gold rush? from Investors Chronicle – A UK perspective on the peer to peer lending industry.
From the Lend Academy Forum
The Lend Academy forum is where investors go to discuss p2p lending. Below are some topics that were being discussed this week.
LC – end of Quarter effect – Fascinating analysis on the “seasonal” trends in loan availability at Lending Club from a long time investor.
Taking loans to invest in loans – is this possible? – A new investor asks about the logic behind borrowing money to invest in P2P loans.
ATM Business Loan – A borrower obtaining a loan for his small business provides some background details and gets investor feedback.
What’s this?…………. Are you officially going from the terms p2p & peer to peer to “marketplace lending”? 🙂
I am going to transition to the term marketplace lending. It is more accurate these days that peer to peer. But I acknowledge that most people still call it that, so it is going to be a gradual transition.
Biz2Credit news is hilarious, what a joke
What do you find funny about it?
Yes. What is so funny? Both Biz2Credit and Direct Lending Investments are top notch organizations and this partnership makes a lot of sense, at least to me.
You add nothing to the conversation by making these one off remarks. Happy for you to voice your opinion but please elaborate. I know you are a regular commenter based on your IP address and your fictitious email address but if you keep making these one-liners with no explanation I am going to start deleting your comments.
Well said Peter. Not sure what funny is trying to insinuate Question though, direct lending commitment is a “future” commitment though right ? Seeing as the fund as a while hasn’t reached 100 million yet ?
Yes, Direct Lending Investments is a future commitment over the next three years.
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