P2P Lending

Lending Club Now Offers Five-Year Notes!

May 12, 2010

With the retraction of brick and mortar banking loans, P2P lending has become increasingly popular amongst both lenders and borrowers. LendingClub, the leader in P2P lending, announced today that they are introducing five-year Notes.  Previously, the longest Note available was three years and neither Lending Club nor Prosper had ever ventured out just this far. So [...]

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The Dough Roller Weekly RoundUp (Prosper Cash Rebate Edition)

November 8, 2009

Social lending has become a great way to earn high interest rates on your money and the folks at Prosper have provided even more incentive.  From now until December 31st 2009, Prosper is offering cash back for the money you invest.  The two tiered breakdown is as follows: Invest $1,000 – $4,999 by December 31 [...]

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LendingClub’s LendingMatch: An Easy Way to Invest in P2P Loans (Video)

July 31, 2009

With interest rates so low on CDs and savings accounts, I’ve been more and more focused on investing in p2p loans on LendingClub. Starting this month, I’m adding $100 to $200 a month to my account, and investing it in new loans. To make this process simple, I use a LendingClub tool called LendingMatch. LendingMatch [...]

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Lending Club Launches Tool to Track and Compare Loan Performance

June 13, 2009
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Lending Club has just launched a new tool that allows investors to compare their loans’ performance with other lenders. This tool is part of Lending Club’s regular improvement of its site. From my experience, Lending Club has managed to create an incredibly easy to navigate site for both borrowers and lenders. In some ways, it [...]

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An Interview with LendingClub’s Rob Garcia

January 14, 2009

LendingClub, a peer to peer lending site, brings individual borrowers and lenders together to fund loans up to $25,000. I got the opportunity of meeting LendingClub’s Rob Garcia when I was doing my research on how LendingClub and sets interest rates. Rob joined the founders of Lending Club and serves as the Director of Product [...]

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How to Buy and Sell Loans on LendingClub’s New Trading Platform

January 8, 2009

Lending Club is an online social lending portal that brings individual lenders and borrowers together. Individuals looking for money can borrow up to $25,000 for a fixed interest rate repayable over three years. Lenders looking to invest can lend money in increments as small as $25. But until recently, there was one major drawback for [...]

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LendingClub Files Amended S-1 and Discloses Changes to How it Sets Interest Rates

August 4, 2008

LendingClub, the social peer-to-peer lending site originally launched on FaceBook, today filed an Amended S-1 Registration Statement with the SEC. Now one step closer to completing its securities offering and reinstating its lender program, LendingClub also disclosed some significant changes to how it sets interest rates for borrowers and future lenders. Let’s take a look [...]

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Lending Club Halts New Lender Registrations and Referral Program Pending Filing with SEC

April 8, 2008

Lending Club today announced that it has “started a process to register, with the appropriate securities authorities, promissory notes that may be offered and sold to lenders through our site in the future.” Thus, it appears that Lending Club wants to create a secondary market for its loans that would allow peer-to-peer lenders who need [...]

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Prosper vs. Lending Club SmackDown–Who has the best interest rates?

February 16, 2008

LendingClub: LendingClub investors can earn significantly higher returns than on savings accounts or CDs. For borrowers, you can submit an application in under 3 minutes and get an instant decision. For more information on becoming a lender or borrower, visit the official LendingClub website. If you think Prosper and Lending Club set interest rates the [...]

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