February 14th, 2008 — Lending Club, News, Press, businessweek, cnbc, cnbc’s, forbes, interviewed, laplanche, mainstream, segment from Merry Richter @ Better Rates. Together.
Social lending is getting increasingly mainstream media coverage. As Rate Ladder reported yesterday, peer to peer lending received prominent placement in Forbes Magazine and CNBC over the last few days.
Our CEO, Renaud Laplanche, was interviewed on CNBC’s Power Lunch program earlier this week to explain how social lending is helping people across America lend [...]
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January 13th, 2008 — Announcements, Lending Club, News, Principles, abides, code, distinguished, ethical, practices, reliable, truthful from Merry Richter @ Better Rates. Together.
We are pleased that we have recently earned the Better Business Bureau’s designation as a Reliable Online Business, certifying that Lending Club meets the BBB’s high standards for ethical online business practices.
We are committed to providing a safe and transparent platform where you can conduct business as borrowers and lenders. As a proud Reliable [...]
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Continue reading → Lending Club Earns Better Business Bureau Seal of Approval
November 24th, 2007 — Lending Club, blessings, embraced, enthusiastic, grateful, reception, sandwiches, thankful, thanksgiving from Merry Richter @ Better Rates. Together.
This Thanksgiving weekend, we at Lending Club have many blessings to count. Like you, we are thankful for wonderful friends and families, good health, and good prospects for the New Year.
We are privileged to have an active and enthusiastic customer base, including talented lenders who funded $2.6M in loans while making a 12.26% net return [...]
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October 20th, 2007 — 2 0, 2 0, 2007, 3 0, Conferences, Francisco, Lending Club, Minneapolis, Recommender, San, Summit, System, Web, forbes, podcasts, web, web, wikipedia from Merry Richter @ Better Rates. Together.
This week saw the fourth edition of Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. What is Web 2.0 and why should you care about it? The answer will depend to a certain extent on where you live, where you work, and whether or not you have teenagers and young adults in your midst.
Wikipedia, itself a [...]
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September 29th, 2007 — Lending Club, Press, adventure, amazing, barron’s, celebrate, francisco’s, sailing, weekend from Merry Richter @ Better Rates. Together.
Something amazing happened last weekend: we were very fortunate to be featured in Barron’s only 2 weeks after our public launch beyond Facebook, and as a result saw more lenders signing up over that weekend than in the 2 weeks before! The Barron’s article came shortly after the Reuters piece last week, which also contributed [...]
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August 8th, 2007 — Announcements, Lending Club, News, arizona, arizonainformation, azcentral, london, named, route, stone, thearizonabuzz from Merry Richter @ Lending Club
We are pleased to announce that Lending Club is now welcoming borrowers from Arizona. To commemorate this occasion, we thought we’d share some fun facts we discovered about the 48th state.
• Arizona has the largest stand of ponderosa pines in the world. Arizona also has more parks and national monuments than any other state, [...]
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Continue reading → Welcome, Arizona!