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"Sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Lending Club and Prosper are producing millions of dollars in legitimate transactions each week. Consumers are likely familiar with them. But there are...
As Prosper and LendingClub grow, they are becoming more sophisticated at assessing risks and alleviating fraud concerns. Big venture capitalists are backing Prosper in a new round of funding, so...
This week, peer-to-peer online lending platform SoMoLend closed a $1.17 million dollar investment round led by a non-profit Cincinnati based venture investment group.
After offering my congratulations, I posed a few questions to SoMoLend founder Candace Klein:
Industry insiders have projected that P2P lending will only continue to grow as the process leaves its infancy and moves into the mainstream. As P2P lending continues to mature, many customers are...
FriendsClear is the first peer-to-peer lending French platform. FriendsClear connects via the Internet, those in need of financing (for a personal or profesional project) with individuals willing...
Peer-to-peer-lending (P2P) essentially involves sharing your idea to other people in hopes they will invest in your business. Sites like Prosper or Lending Club connect people who want to lend...
Jeff Lynn, chief executive of Seedrs - the only Financial Services Authority regulated online platform for investing in startups - was at the meeting at Buckingham Palace, and told the Huffington...
myAzimia is the first company to exclusively provide a crowdfunding platform to entrepreneurs and institutions. Our software as a service platform allows entrepreneurs and institutions to set up...
Eschewing another big corporate job, Betfair co-founder Ed Wray says angel investing is his future and is encouraged by a Budget pledge to lend small businesses £100m through peer-to-peer lending...
The Bank of England thinks this 'social lending' is the future. "Small peer-to-peer lenders like Zopa and Funding Circle could in time replace high street banks," its head of...
Consumer lending faces another challenge: the growth of peer-to-peer lending. Currently estimated to be worth £250 Million, poor savings rates and uncertainty over investment returns has prompted...
Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson lends support to former banker's CrowdFunding platform which allows companies to raise debt, equity and donations in one place secured by your social capital...
Bringing together the different ways businesses can raise money though online peer-to-peer funding, Bank to the Future is the latest site to launch. The company offers three different types of...
This emerging bankless finance industry is expected to see $6 billion invested globally in 2013. “Sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Lending Club and Prosper are producing millions of dollars in...
TrustBuddy is a web-based community where buddies can meet to lend and borrow money between each other. TrustBuddy has specialised in making life simpler for lenders or borrowers. Anyone over the...
Recent indications suggest that the peer-to-peer lending industry in the United Kingdom is nearing its tipping point. The sector is servicing a universal need and developing innovative, vibrant business models to compete against each other. But why now? And what’s driving the tip? Here are five key reasons why we might be about to see explosive growth in a disruptive sector.
Squirrl.com provides an online finance platform for established commercial organisations (Suppliers) to offer secured loans to individuals. The finance is specifically for Suppliers who provide...
In peer-to-peer lending, private investors receive high returns while businesses get low cost finance, often at much more competitive rates than from high street banks. And crowdfunding offers...
FARJHO.com aspires to become the first entrepreneurial venture to bring new housing related economic benefits via crowdfunding to the American consumers under strictly free market principles by...
Here are some guidelines for all new investors to think about as they take the plunge into p2p lending, these guidelines apply to investors in either Lending Club or Prosper, the two main...
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