LendingCrowd Onboards New Chief Marketing Officer Darren Cairns joins the Scottish fintech firm just one month after Sir Sandy Crombie was appointed Chairman.
Orca to Launch New Ratings Service for P2P Investing Platforms Orca's new ratings service touches on four factors for assessing P2P lending platforms.
Orca Deploys Standardized P2P Investment Module Amidst Rising Demand The launch of Orca’s new platform coincides with a rising demand in the P2P market in the UK.
Blender Procures Electronic Money Institution License in EU Blender’s new license allows the company to operate as a fully functional financial institute in the EU.
UK Bond Network Secures Full FCA Authorisation for P2P Platforms The firm joins an elite group of P2P platforms fully authorised to offer the much-sought Innovative Finance ISA.
P2P Lending Platform BLender Starts Global Expansion with New EU Offices The Israeli startup strengthens its European foothold before turning to Africa and Latin America.
How to Assess Borrowers’ Stability with No Credit Information Dr. Gal Aviv, CEO of Israeli peer to peer lending start-up BLender, speaks about the new trends in the ...
Lending Club Taps New CEO, Cuts 179 Jobs as Revenues Weigh Lending Club has chosen a new CEO to help guide it out of a lackluster 2016 fiscal year thus ...
Chinese Innovation: Nude Photos as P2P Loan Collateral Taking KYC (Know-Your-Customer) over the line!
Investment House Acquires 20% of P2P Lending Startup’s Business in Israel The Israeli FinTech startup BLender offers an alternative to the expensive credit provided by banks and credit card companies.
Chinese Fintech Lender Lufax May Delay IPO Amid Market Conditions: Bloomberg China's dominant role in alternative finance and P2P lending may see changes.
LendKey Passes $1b on its Lending Platform To Predominantly Millennials Millennials made up the average loan at Lendkey helping it reach $1b.
UK’s P2P Platform Interest Bottlenecking FCA Authorization Process A logjam of applications has hit the FCA following an uptick in P2P platform applications.
Afluenta Gains $8m in Funding Round From VC Groups P2P lending network, Afluenta has secured $8m in Series B Funding.
Fintech Spotlight: Data vs Data-The Battle to Understand Online Lending Borrowers Psychometric assessments and behavioral science are both part of the growing use of alternative data to help analyze borrow ...
Online Lenders Aren’t Keeping JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Up at Night, but Who Is? Online lending may be taking the SMB loan market share away from banks, but it is payment services startups ...
Fintech Spotlight: Capify’s David Goldin Shares Views on Past, Present and Future In today’s Fintech Spotlight, we connect with Capify CEO David Goldin and discuss the evolution of online lending since ...
Finstar Financial Grabs 51% Stake in Prestamos Prima and its P2P Platform Finstar Financial Group has acquired a 51% stake in Prestamos Prima, an alternative finance firm that provides P2P lending ...
Cambridge Report: UK Alternative Finance Market Grew 84% to £3.2 billion in 2015 Real estate and equity crowdfunding helped power the UK's alternative finance sector by 84% to become a £3.2 billion ...
What Did You Think of SoFi’s Super Bowl Ad – Are You Great? SoFi showed that they have 'arrived' by joining the exclusive list of companies producing a Super Bowl commercial. But ...