I was in London last week to attend and speak at the AltFi (short for alternative finance) conference. The focus...
PeerStreet is a platform founded by Brew Johnson? and Brett Crosby; initially launched to take advantage of inefficiencies in the real estate market, the platform has grown to service a wide range of accredited investors; the platform has originated over $200 million in real estate loans; it attributes its success to the platform's focus on short-term, first position lien loans, and a robust legal and compliance team; Brew Johnson will be speaking at LendIt USA 2017 on a panel discussing "Residential & Commercial Real Estate: What's next for real estate crowdfunding?" Source
Comply Advantage and LendIt sent a survey to 1,000+ LendIt subscribers, including domestic and international fintechs and services providers, with 15 questions on risk management, tech, performance, and data collection.
Jason talks with Forbes about his involvement in marketplace lending, the development of the first LendIt USA event in 2013 and much more; initially founded by Jones, Bo Brustkern and Peter Renton, LendIt started as a meetup and has grown to become the biggest show in lending and fintech in the US, Europe and China; this year's LendIt USA event will feature the market's leading online lenders, new tracks for fintech innovation and PitchIt at LendIt with eight finalists presenting before a panel of judges; LendIt hosts three events throughout the year with its next event in China. Source
Lend Academy summarizes the activity of past LendIt PitchIt finalists in their article; a LendIt competition for startup businesses, PitchIt provides finalists the opportunity to present their business in front of a panel of judges and an audience of investors with the goal of receiving new venture capital funding for business growth; since 2015, PitchIt has helped support the success of the many finalists detailed in the Lend Academy article. Source
If you are like me when you were at LendIt Fintech USA 2018 in San Francisco last month you missed out...
The LendIt Conference is just five weeks away. And I want to let everyone know that the discounted pricing will...
At LendIt Fintech News, we get questions all the time and one of the most frequent is "what is the best way to pitch a story?"
When LendIt was founded back in 2013 we had no idea it would get to the size and scale that...
Lend Academy provides insight on achieving success from this year's Fintech Woman of the Year finalists; highlights include visualizing success, setting goals and learning from experiences; the article also includes a link to a recent Exchanges at Goldman Sachs podcast where Goldman Sachs' global co-head of the Industrials Group in Investment Banking shares her career advice. Source