P2P Lending News
October 10th, 2008 — , Lending Club, P2P Lending News, Prosper, The Economy, Zopa, risk from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
I planned to blog in commiseration with Tom about being denied for a loan. Tom was denied for a Zopa loan and I was rejected for a GE Money Bank credit card through Amazon. GE Money Bank took 10 days to tell me that they could not verify my identity despite the promise [...]
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Continue reading → Zopa Closes: More Negative P2P Lending News
September 26th, 2008 — , P2P Lending News, Uncategorized, loanio from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
Loanio has continued to claim be almost available since I started blogging on P2P lending. Loanio in fact has been promising its imminent release since before I started blogging P2P lending — back in November of 2008.
For about the past year (maybe more), Loanio has been requesting you to sign up for their [...]
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Continue reading → O Loanio, Loanio, Wherefore art thou Loanio?
August 16th, 2008 — , P2P Lending News, Prosper, blogs from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
I received a Prosper Marketplace update via email. There were several interesting items, but it the last item stood out:
Legal Agreement Revisions
A minor change has been made to the following legal agreements, to clarify that selling or buying a recommendation or endorsement is not allowed. Please refer to the links below to view these changes.
This [...]
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Continue reading → Prosper Marketplace Update Targeted at “Lazy Man and Money”?
June 30th, 2008 — , Carnival, P2P Lending News, blog from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
The next p2p lending carnival will be hosted here at Personal Loan Portfolio. There are not a large number of submissions that have been received to date, so you have a great chance of being prominently featured in the carnival. If you have recently written about Lending Club, Prosper Marketplace, Fynanz, or other [...]
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Continue reading → Submit for the next P2P Lending Carnival
June 20th, 2008 — , Lending Club, P2P Lending News, sec from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
Lending Club just sent an update via email about their latest filing with the SEC. Unfortunately, they are still in a quiet period so they do not say much about the ongoing outlook, but it seems they may be one step closer to completing the requirements to return to P2P lending. So maybe [...]
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Continue reading → Lending Club SEC Update During the Quiet Period
June 16th, 2008 — , Lending Club, P2P Lending News, Video from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
Congratulations to Lending Club for winning a Webby Award. Other recipients included David Byrne, will.i.am of the Blackeyed Peas, Stephen Colbert, Lorne Michaels, Michel Gondry, and Tim and Eric. Many, many other organizations won awards including the Peace Corps which won a Webby award for a government website.
Lending Cub gave a tongue-in-cheek acceptance [...]
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April 10th, 2008 — , Globefunder, Lending Club, News, P2P Lending News, Prosper, Statistics, Video, interest rate, risk, roundup from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
P2P Lending has been in the mainstream media news a great deal lately. I decided to post a roundup of many of the recent news articles on Prosper.com, Lending Club, Zopa, GlobeFunder, and Virgin Money. It is unfortunate that Lending Club entered a quiet period just as they were gaining tremendous growth in [...]
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Continue reading → Lending Club, Prosper.com, and more: P2P Lending News Roundup
April 9th, 2008 — , Lending Club, P2P Lending News, blogs, roundup from Personal Loan Portfolio @ Personal Loan Portfolio
I have already commented on Lending Club’s quiet period and referral program suspension. I decided to check other blogs to see what they have to say on the email notice that went out today. Since I was reading everything anyway, I decided to post links and a few quotes to everything that I could [...]
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Continue reading → Lending Club Quiet Period Announcement: A Blog RoundUp