What Military Strategy Can Teach Us About the Vulnerability of Fintech Napoleon Bonaparte had his tactics for dealing with his opponents' hubris; is our infatuation with technology a similar weakness?
What’s Ailing Marketplace Lending Stocks? 2015 was a great year for lenders, but lofty IPO valuations and competition have put a drag on shares ...
Fintech in 2015: Marketplace Lending, JOBS Act and Facial Recognition A look back at some of the important fintech developments that caught our eye during 2015.
Chinese P2P Lender Yirendai Goes Public, Sees Shares Fall Shares of the first Chinese P2P lender to go public in the US fail to affect the generally weak ...
California State Regulators Open Inquiries into Marketplace Lending 12 marketplace lenders have received inquiries from California State regulators for more information about their lending practices.
The International Rise of Alternative Finance Around the world, small businesses find that banks can’t always meet their needs. Like U.S. entrepreneurs, they are trying ...
The Pioneers of Peer-to-Peer P2P service providers are challenging banks with growing success, helped by the millennial demographic
Backed is Backed by $1.5 Million in Investments The peer-to-peer credit provider is building a client base in the US.
Funding Circle Challenges Banks and Nears Top of UK Lenders List to SMEs It may not be a bank, but online lender Funding Circle was the 3rd largest source of loans to ...
The Rivalry Myth: Big Banks and Alternative Lenders Work Together for SMEs Far from being rivals, big banks and alternative lenders are actively developing new ways to work together to serve ...
P2P Lender BitBond Launches ‘Big Mac’ Index for Bitcoin BitBond, a startup facilitating p2p loans with bitcoin, says that it has launched an index that tracks the purchasing ...
Q3 Data Reveals UK P2P Lending on Track to Surpass £2 Billion for 2015 P2P lending in the UK continues to attract new borrowers in Q3 with the industry becoming a formidable competitor ...
GMO Click Enters P2P Lending with Maneo Partnership A collaboration uniting one of the globe's oldest P2P lenders with a longstanding securities broker is set to introduce ...
The Future Belongs to Peer-To-Peer Money Transfer Services Peer-to-peer money transfer services could one day be the end of traditional service providers. The pursuit to kill cash ...
SoFi Raised $1 Billion to Challenge Banks and Other Fintech Firms for Lending Supremacy Backed by SoftBank and existing shareholders, SoFi has raised the largest private funding round within the growing fintech sector.
With Lead Generation and More in Mind, Prosper Marketplace buys BillGuard In an interesting deal that reveals the competitive nature of the P2P lending market, Prosper Marketplace is acquiring BillGuard. ...
Bondora Opens Loans to Finnish, Spanish and Estonian Borrowers to US Investors Providing investors with higher yields compared to other European P2P lending platforms, Bondora opens to US investors.
Fundbox Grows its way to $50M from Spark Capital, Jeff Bezos & Co. Fundbox closes $50M in investments from investors including Jeff Bezos and Ashton Kutcher for their fast growing invoice lending ...
Funding Circle Growth Rockets Higher as CEO Expects over £35M in Revenues After growing 121% in 2014, revenues for Funding Circle and its marketplace lending platform may be set to triple ...
Fintech Spotlight: An Unsecured Debt Bubble? Or Is This Time Different? Driven by better data, marketplace lenders believe ‘this time will be different’ and they will avoid an unsecured credit ...