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Finstar Financial Grabs 51% Stake in Prestamos Prima and its P2P Platform
2016-02-21T15:39:50.000+02:00
Finstar Financial Group has acquired a 51% stake in Prestamos Prima, an alternative finance firm that provides P2P lending services.
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Cambridge Report: UK Alternative Finance Market Grew 84% to £3.2 billion in 2015
2016-02-18T16:18:31.000+02:00
Real estate and equity crowdfunding helped power the UK's alternative finance sector by 84% to become a £3.2 billion market in 2015.
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Spotcap Closes €31.5M Round as Investor Demand in Online Lenders Continues
2016-02-03T14:36:36.000+02:00
Grabbing funds from private equity firm Finstar Financial Group, Spotcap looks to expand into new countries with their new funding.
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P2P Lending ‘Red Hot’ in China in 2015, but for How Long?
2016-01-04T15:28:03.000+02:00
China's P2P lending sector saw nearly one trillion yuan in transactions in a booming year for alternative finance.
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P2P and Balance Sheet Lending: Same Same but Different…
2015-12-28T10:46:43.000+02:00
Hadar Swersky of Smart Box Capital reviews the differences between marketplace and balance sheet based online lending.
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What Military Strategy Can Teach Us About the Vulnerability of Fintech
2015-12-27T23:31:02.000+02:00
Napoleon Bonaparte had his tactics for dealing with his opponents' hubris; is our infatuation with technology a similar weakness?
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What’s Ailing Marketplace Lending Stocks?
2015-12-27T18:20:18.000+02:00
2015 was a great year for lenders, but lofty IPO valuations and competition have put a drag on shares of public firms.
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Fintech in 2015: Marketplace Lending, JOBS Act and Facial Recognition
2015-12-21T11:42:00.000+02:00
A look back at some of the important fintech developments that caught our eye during 2015.
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Chinese P2P Lender Yirendai Goes Public, Sees Shares Fall
2015-12-20T10:59:44.000+02:00
Shares of the first Chinese P2P lender to go public in the US fail to affect the generally weak climate for technology and fintech IPOs during 2015.
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California State Regulators Open Inquiries into Marketplace Lending
2015-12-15T18:20:46.000+02:00
12 marketplace lenders have received inquiries from California State regulators for more information about their lending practices.
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The International Rise of Alternative Finance
2015-12-11T11:11:32.000+02:00
Around the world, small businesses find that banks can’t always meet their needs. Like U.S. entrepreneurs, they are trying alternatives.
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The Pioneers of Peer-to-Peer
2015-12-09T13:35:47.000+02:00
P2P service providers are challenging banks with growing success, helped by the millennial demographic
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Backed is Backed by $1.5 Million in Investments
2015-12-08T09:58:59.000+02:00
The peer-to-peer credit provider is building a client base in the US.
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Funding Circle Challenges Banks and Nears Top of UK Lenders List to SMEs
2015-12-03T17:10:44.000+02:00
It may not be a bank, but online lender Funding Circle was the 3rd largest source of loans to SMEs in the UK during Q3 2015
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The Rivalry Myth: Big Banks and Alternative Lenders Work Together for SMEs
2015-12-01T13:54:32.000+02:00
Far from being rivals, big banks and alternative lenders are actively developing new ways to work together to serve customers with different needs
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P2P Lender BitBond Launches 'Big Mac' Index for Bitcoin
2015-11-18T11:29:37.000+02:00
BitBond, a startup facilitating p2p loans with bitcoin, says that it has launched an index that tracks the purchasing power of bitcoin.
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Q3 Data Reveals UK P2P Lending on Track to Surpass £2 Billion for 2015
2015-10-21T10:32:43.000+02:00
P2P lending in the UK continues to attract new borrowers in Q3 with the industry becoming a formidable competitor to banks.
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GMO Click Enters P2P Lending with Maneo Partnership
2015-10-20T14:44:41.000+02:00
A collaboration uniting one of the globe's oldest P2P lenders with a longstanding securities broker is set to introduce new customers to online lending.
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The Future Belongs to Peer-To-Peer Money Transfer Services
2015-10-01T11:12:34.000+02:00
Peer-to-peer money transfer services could one day be the end of traditional service providers. The pursuit to kill cash has just begun.
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SoFi Raised $1 Billion to Challenge Banks and Other Fintech Firms for Lending Supremacy
2015-09-30T20:23:52.000+02:00
Backed by SoftBank and existing shareholders, SoFi has raised the largest private funding round within the growing fintech sector.
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With Lead Generation and More in Mind, Prosper Marketplace buys BillGuard
2015-09-27T10:06:14.000+02:00
In an interesting deal that reveals the competitive nature of the P2P lending market, Prosper Marketplace is acquiring BillGuard.
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Bondora Opens Loans to Finnish, Spanish and Estonian Borrowers to US Investors
2015-09-17T10:33:59.000+02:00
Providing investors with higher yields compared to other European P2P lending platforms, Bondora opens to US investors.
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Fundbox Grows its way to $50M from Spark Capital, Jeff Bezos & Co.
2015-09-10T15:12:17.000+02:00
Fundbox closes $50M in investments from investors including Jeff Bezos and Ashton Kutcher for their fast growing invoice lending business.
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Funding Circle Growth Rockets Higher as CEO Expects over £35M in Revenues
2015-08-30T14:13:09.000+02:00
After growing 121% in 2014, revenues for Funding Circle and its marketplace lending platform may be set to triple during 2015.
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Fintech Spotlight: An Unsecured Debt Bubble? Or Is This Time Different?
2015-08-25T12:25:32.000+02:00
Driven by better data, marketplace lenders believe ‘this time will be different’ and they will avoid an unsecured credit bubble
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