On Thursday July 26, the Facebook community passed the mark of half a million dollars lent and borrowed! This milestone was passed 7 weeks after we announced the first loan on June 6, which is certainly faster than we anticipated.
We continue to be impressed with the rapid adoption. The Facebook F8 launch has helped spread [...]
- Lending Club Loan Volume Misquoted in National Newspaper I encourage all reporters to check facts. In the p2p lending space, both major US p2p lending companies provide data and this data can usually corroborate or debunk basic marketplace claims. I was reading a recent Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on p2p lending: The credit crunch: How did it happen and where......
- Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club CEO in the News Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of Lending Club in California recently spoke with Jackie Hyland from ABC News Money Matters about Lending Club, where borrowers with good credit can obtain personal loans from complete strangers. It was touted as providing a unique and creative way to get a loan that......
