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Marketplace Lending and Personal Finance Apps: A perfect union?
Every week goes by and investment industry professionals read more and more about the growth in the marketplace lending industry. Sure, it can become a trillion dollar market by the people. But it...
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Build, Buy, Partner, or Ignore: Banking’s response to online lending
Much attention is given to the startups in the online lending space. Companies like Propser are raising huge rounds. Acquisitions in the online lending space are beginning to become more frequent. With...
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What’s Goldman Sachs doing in online consumer lending?
Goldman has ambitious plans to offer loans of a few thousand dollars to ordinary Americans and compete with Main Street banks and other lenders.New York TimesGoldman Sachs has built its brand on...
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Blue Elephant Capital’s Brian Weinstein bullish on boat finance, platform...
Brian Weinstein is Managing Partner at Blue Elephant Capital Management. Previously, Brian was a portfolio manager at BlackRock, overseeing $300 billion in assets across short duration, financial...
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Banks being disrupted…by search engines?
Traditional banks are finding out new competition lurks everywhere. Pureplay startups like marketplace lenders, Lending Club and Prosper are originating billions of dollars of loans every quarter....
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[podcast] LendKey’s Vince Passione: There’s no Uber-ization of finance...
As the interest in fintech and financial services in general continues to grow, there’s been chatter of an Uber-like disruption by the startups in the space. Our next guest, Vince Passione would beg to...
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Online lender, Upstart hires Mike Osborn as Chief Marketing Officer
Mike Osborn, new CMO of Upstart Network Reworking traditional credit models to extend loans to people without years of credit history is a big undertaking, but it doesn’t appear too big a challenge for...
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In today’s market, is everyone an online lender?
How do you compete when everyone’s an online lender? The interest surrounding online lending has seen hundreds of millions billions of dollars (debt and equity) being poured into the space. In fact,...
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JPMorgan: King of the online lending ball names his queen, launching OnDeck...
Online lenders have an issue (especially the publicly traded ones, like OnDeck Capital ($ONDK) and Lending Club ($LC)). They may have come from nowhere over the past couple of years to be presently...
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[podcast] Funding Circle’s Sam Hodges on scaling growth by navigating globally
Online lending is enjoying its moment. New platforms are launching monthly and raising hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and equity in a race to redefine how we borrow and from whom. And it’s not...
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[podcast] Where Blue Elephant’s Brian Weinstein is finding opportunity...
Blue Elephant Capital’s Brian Weinstein What would it take to get a managing director, managing a hundred billion dollars of fixed income assets at BlackRock, to jump ship to a start up asset manager?...
View ArticleAn ex-Uber marketing pro weighs in on the Uberization of money debate
While the stock market opened 2016 with a loud plop, the hottest companies continue to be technology startups. Atop this pile sits Uber. Uber has become synonymous in tech circles for how easy buying...
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How Payoff is shifting the conversation about consumer debt to financial...
Scott Saunders is CEO and Founder of Payoff What is Payoff? Scott Saunders, Payoff Payoff is a leading financial wellness and empowerment company leveraging technology, science and personalization. We...
View ArticleQuicken Loans turns to Super Bowl advertising to launch its new mortgage product
On Sunday, when the Denver Broncos square off to compete against the Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl, TV viewers will be treated to some of the most creative advertising they’ll see the whole year....
View ArticleIs human capital investing finally going to be a thing?
As online finance companies continue to develop new types of loans, one firm is growing an innovative form of finance. Chicago-based Cumulus Funding offers something called an income share agreement,...
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9 alarming facts about online lending
Online lending has been a very popular space of late. Investors have risked billions of dollars of risk capital in getting these platforms up and running. Startup online lenders like LendingClub and...
View ArticleDebt market opens to P2P loans
Last week British investor Fintex Capital issued the first Euro-denominated bond backed by marketplace loans. Like traditional bonds, it can trade through Euroclear and carries an International...
View ArticleLending money to a family member? Don’t expect much from technology
It is hard to think of anything more natural than lending money to a family member in need. But while people tend to think of loans to family or close friends as a small, private matter, when viewed...
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Is the marketplace lending industry in trouble? Here’s what we know.
There’s been a lot of chatter recently about the state of the marketplace lending industry. Unfortunately, it’s been a little noisy, as both positive and negative data points have been released. Here’s...
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5 surprising things you might not know about FICO
It’s hard to read anything about the rise of online lending without touching upon the demise of the FICO score. FICO may not be the word’s most perfect credit scoring methodology, but for the most part...
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