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Renaud Laplanche Discusses Lending Club-Alibaba Deal on CNBC

February 5, 2015 By Peter Renton 1 Comment

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The big news from Lending Club this week is their announcement of a deal with Alibaba to fund short term loans for small businesses. These loans mark a significant departure for Lending Club in that these are very short term loans, terms are six months or less, and interest rates will range from 0.5% – 2.4% per month with loan amounts up to $300,000. The loans will be made to U.S. small businesses looking to purchase inventory from China through the Alibaba marketplace.

Also new with this program is a new kind of protection insurance program that Lending Club CEO, Renaud Laplanche, discusses briefly in this interview below on CNBC.

This is the second major partnership that Lending Club has announced in the past three weeks, clearly demonstrating they are looking for new areas of growth beyond their traditional unsecured consumer loans. No word yet on who will be funding these loans but I am sure they have some institutional investors lined up who are willing to invest.

Filed Under: Peer to Peer Lending

Views: 6

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  1. Question says

    February 5, 2015 at 10:12 am

    Are these loans amortizing (borrower pays back interest and principal together each month), or a bullet payment at the end of the term?

    Whoever knows the answer, I’d appreciate if you could convert that into an APR for me in the 6-month @ 2.4% interest scenario.

    Thank you

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