Many investors like the simplicity, ease and liquidity of investing in a publicly traded fund. There are currently five closed...
Softening investor demand has been a topic of many news outlets covering marketplace lending throughout 2016. But PeerIQ, who has...
An opinion piece in American Banker highlights the challenges the marketplace lending industry faced in 2016; Alenka Grealish, a senior analyst at Celent believes that we will see consolidation and more partnerships in the remainder of 2017 and into 2018; discusses the advantages and challenges both fintechs and banks have and what may happen in a downturn. Source
It rocked the fintech world. When LendingClub announced they would be acquiring Radius Bank (pending regulatory approval of course) it...
It has always been a mystery to me. I have always wondered why all the banks shut down their personal...
Today, Cloud Lending Solutions, a cloud platform for marketplace lenders unveiled CL Exchange. I spoke to Snehal Fulzele, CEO of...
Auxmoney is an online lending platform based in Germany; the platform grew origination volumes by 75% in the year to €316 million across 40,000 loans; the company now has lent around €700 million across 100,000 loans to date; last year auxmoney announced a partnership with digital bank N26 to expand their borrower base; auxmoney was profitable for the first time in the second half of 2017 which sets them apart from many platforms. Source
[Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Matt Shibata, a Portfolio Manager at Morling Financial Advisors, where he provides...
Over the past six months we have conducted close to 75 calls with direct lending fund managers to check...
While giving a keynote speech at LendIt Europe 2017 Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche laid out his three biggest predictions for the near future; the growth of online lending will accelerate in the next 15 months, a meaningful secondary market will develop and rebundling will give birth to one major consumer product innovation in the next 15 months. Source.