Lendit very kindly offered a VIP Code for readers of Disruptive Finance to attend their conference. It will take place in San Francisco on 11/12 April at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis If you had to choose one event about p2p lending, marketplace lending, online, digital lending (I am a bit lost with all these new developments…), then Lendit is(…)
Lendit Europe very kindly offered a VIP Code for readers of Disruptive Finance to attend their conference. It will take place in London on 20/21 October at the Hilton Metropole. If you had to choose one event about p2p lending, marketplace lending, online lending (I am a bit lost with all these new developments…), then Lendit is definitely the(…)
If you liked “Invest in the Disruptors”, you will love “Disrupt the Disruptors”… Goldman Sachs has been a very active investor in Fintech (and Tech in general), with the latest investment in Circle (Bitcoin), but also CompareAsiaGroup (Comparison website for financial services), Oscar (Challenger Insurance) or Kensho (Data analytics for finance) for example. But what(…)
Lending Club and Prosper are the largest – and most well-known – p2p platforms in the US, but SoFi is certainly one of the most interesting. #119024681 / gettyimages.com SoFi is a p2p platform based on a simple concept : get alumni of US universities to borrow from other alumni. This obviously facilitates credit(…)
Excerpt from an article I wrote in Financial News – which is quickly becoming a reference newspaper in Fintech and Disruptive Finance. “Disintermediation is a powerful trend that should not be underestimated – after five years, taxi app Uber and lodging website Airbnb have grown from zero to respective valuations of $20 billion and $10 billion.(…)
“Peer-to-peer lending is growing fast in many countries. In Britain, loan volumes are doubling every six months.” (The Economist, March 1st, 2014) Peer to peer finance, i.e. p2p lending to consumers, p2p lending to businesses and crowdfunding, is definitely growing very quickly, and is attracting a lot of attention – from the finance industry, but(…)
“Hopefully, the growth of peer-to-peer lenders and those involved in crowd-funding will help solve the problems we have with lending for small and medium enterprises..” (Andrew Haldane, Bank of England, 2012). It is certainly very rare to have such an endorsement from a Central Bank about a financial innovation. P2p lending certainly has a lot(…)
