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.
Not a whole lot to report on this week as far as news goes. But the Reuters blog post below is definitely worth reading. It was written by Don Tapscott, the renowned Canadian author and academic, and he takes a look at the where p2p lending is now and where it may be headed. Have a great weekend.
Reuters | The Great Debate – Cutting out the banker middleman
Lending Club Experience – Four Months and Seven Deadbeats
Xintendo – The Important Things I Learned from Investing in P2P Lending
Peerform blog – Could Peer-to-Peer Small Business Loans Be The Newest Driver in Job Creation?
CityWire Money (UK) – Peer-to-peer lending: a replacement for banks?
Riches Corner – My Lending Club Investment Performance
Thanks for posting my Seven Deadbeats post. I think anyone looking at my earlier posts without looking at this one is not getting the whole story. My luck has run out and now I get to handle dealing with Late loans. This is where the real fun begins.
Thanks.
@Marc, You are welcome. I have linked to many of your other posts in these news roundups so readers may well be aware of your previous posts. I have said many times that if you are investing in a significant number of loans (more than 100) you will eventually get late loans unless you are very lucky.
I wonder who has the most number of loans without any lates or defaults out there…
@Mike
If you sell the notes then they go into grace it will look like you have no lates or defaults…. The NAV does not take into account Foli trades.
Hi Peter,
Thanks for posting my post about my lending club investment performance. I hope my experience provides a good overview for the readers about the investment potential of social lending. I’ll keep updating my performance as I add more loans to my portfolio. I’d like to see how everything keeps up as I get closer to investing a significant number of loans.
@Mike, That would be interesting to find out. One of the best I have seen is Clemclan on Prosper. They have 346 loans with an average age of 12 months and just 1 default. But they are about to have a few more defaults I suspect:
https://www.lendstats.com/loansearch/loanfilter.php?sdy=2009&size1=1000&size2=25000&ho1=1&ho0=1&incall=1&empall=1&lpall=1&trmall=1&rh2=0&lender=clemclan&type=lender
@Charlie, That is very true on Lending Club there may be many investors with no defaults. Because if you are willing to take a big discount on your loan then you can easily offload them on Folio. This is not the case on Prosper because you can only sell current loans on Folio there.
@Richard, You’re welcome. I look forward to seeing your progress.