Here are some of the latest peer-to-peer lending and financial innovation stories from around the web:

  • Roundup of Social Lending News – May 26, 2012 – Every Saturday I bring you the latest news from the world of peer to peer lending. These are the best of the news articles and blog posts from around the web that I shared on Twitter this past week. We had some really great articles this week from a variety of sources. I already mentioned the Seeking…
  • Another P2P Lending Convert from Mainstream Investing – Seeking Alpha is one of the leading websites for news on investing. I have been receiving their stock market alerts and free newsletters for some time. That is why I was very pleased to read this article there earlier this week by Zack Miller, an author, blogger and the managing director at a boutique investment firm….
  • Prosper Introduces New Premier Investor Service – A new kind of service is being launched by Prosper today. Prosper Premier is billed as “having your own Prosper concierge” that basically does all your investing for you. Unlike most regular readers of this blog some investors don’t like deciding which loans to invest in. They like the idea of p2p lending and the…
  • The Peer-to-Peer Hunger Games (Deconstruction of a Revolution) – This is a guest post from Loren Picard, Senior Managing Director with LMA Capital, Inc.  He focuses his efforts in the mortgage and P2P financial solutions arenas.  He can be contacted on LinkedIn here. A revolution against rent seekers is upon us.  Who are these rent seekers in the financial markets today?  This is not…
  • Interview with Sophie Coles of Squirrl.com – On Wednesday the new p2p lending marketplace Squirrl.com launched. For an introduction on the concept read the article ‘Squirrl Launch – Secured Loans to Suppliers‘. Now Sophie Coles, Squirrl’s Director of Business Development answers my questions.
    What is Squirrl about?

    Squirrl.com provides an online finance platform for well established commercial organisations (Suppliers) that have a business…

  • Roundup of Social Lending News – May 18, 2012 – I am a day early with my weekly news roundup this week because I am heading off on vacation with my family for a few days. But here is the major news of the past week that I shared on Twitter. We had many blogger updates this week and we also saw not one but…