alt lending

Difficult Questions Lending Club Left Behind
Difficult Questions Lending Club Left Behind
May 31, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Given that for a few short years, very prominent executives at the biggest banks in the world were publicly worry that the emerging marketplace and...

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OnDeck Share Price Plunges With Slowing Growth
OnDeck Share Price Plunges With Slowing Growth
February 24, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Share in online lender OnDeck have dropped 20 percent on the announcement that growth this year will be slower than initially forecasted. Get the Full...

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Rocket Mortgage Blasts Off To Controversy
Rocket Mortgage Blasts Off To Controversy
February 09, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Imagine you are a marketing executive at a large or up-and-coming firm considering the possibility of buying some advertising during the Super Bowl. There are a lot...

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WeLab Online Lending Platform Secures $160M To Expand
WeLab Online Lending Platform Secures $160M To Expand
January 22, 2016  |  Fintech Investments

WeLab, a Hong Kong-based FinTech startup, has raised $160 million in its Series B round to further expand its roots in the Chinese market with the...

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Kiva — Where Crowdsourcing Meets Alt-Lending
Kiva — Where Crowdsourcing Meets Alt-Lending
January 05, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

When Kiva got its start a decade ago, the needs of small businesses in developed nations like the U.S. were not its original area of...

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Alt-Lender ThinCats Gets Snatched Up
Alt-Lender ThinCats Gets Snatched Up
December 09, 2015  |  B2B Payments

The U.K. alternative lending market just saw a bit of consolidation. Reports on Tuesday (Dec. 8) revealed U.K. peer-to-peer small business lending portal ThinCats has...

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Tossing Old Ideas On Emerging Economies
Tossing Old Ideas On Emerging Economies
December 08, 2015  |  Alternative Finances

Though confusing to non-financial professionals, a big loan is much easier for a bank to make than a small loan. Though the natural assumption is...

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How One Lender Hooks Millennials
How One Lender Hooks Millennials
December 04, 2015  |  News

The thought of getting a call from the bank that lent out a student or car loan might ring of nightmares to many but not...

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Alt-Lending Startup Bread Picks Up A Lot Of  Dough
Alt-Lending Startup Bread Picks Up A Lot Of Dough
November 10, 2015  |  Alternative Finances

The consumer lending startup space, also known as alternative lending, is heating up — and another newcomer in the space has secured some big backing from...

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