Over the last seven or so years, marketplace lending is to VC money what high-end retail is to me – simply irresistible. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into a variety of these ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has issued a request for information (RFI) regarding online marketplace lending. The RFI reflects the Treasury Department’s recognition that online marketplace ...

lenders and investors do business — and their impact will continue to be felt well into the future. This is a turbulent time in this developing industry and senior members of Pepper Hamilton’s ...

Having largely failed to predict the last financial crisis, financial journalists are always eager to make sure that they are early for the next one. And despite years of regulation and restructuring ...

SAN FRANCISCO & SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prosper Marketplace (www.prosper.com), a leading peer-to-peer lending company, today announced that it has acquired American HealthCare Lending, a ...

"LendIt, the world’s largest show in lending and fintech, announced that they have selected Prime Meridian Capital Management as the winner in the Top Fund Manager category at the first annual LendIt ...

There is a huge opportunity in alternative lending and banks are taking note. Prosper Marketplace, one of the largest peer-to-peer lending platforms, has raised $165 million in Series D financing from ...

Freddie Mac's Office of the Chief Economist takes an intensive look at marketplace lending in the December issue of its Insights and Outlook. A marketplace lender (ML) is a non-bank intermediary that ...

The marketplace lending instruments in which the Fund may invest may have varying degrees of credit risk and the Fund will not be restricted by any borrower credit criteria or credit risk limitation.

Intro: The online lending sector has been the target of a few unfavorable media reports as of late. Our opinion is that some of the headline risks highlighted by the media are overblown and overhyped.

As these platforms hit their first setbacks they have many questions to answer over their business models, underwriting competency and regulatory compliance. Euromoney goes behind the headlines about ...

Peer to peer lending marketplace Mintos has confirmed that the first update of its Mintos Risk Scores is now live and accessible. The European loan marketplace provider notes that it’s sharing the ...