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

  • Hedging High Risk P2P Portfolios – Thus far, Lending Club and Prosper 2.0 have produced some outstanding returns. When people use tools like Nickel Steamroller’s Return Forecaster they can see deterministically that taking on more risk will produce higher returns with a good degree of confidence.  Risk determines … Continue reading →…
  • Roundup of Social Lending News – July 21, 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 have quite a variety of articles for you this week. As usual there are a couple of…
  • Fincon12 is Happening in Denver in September – What is Fincon12? It is the second annual Financial Bloggers Conference where a bunch of bloggers and finance geeks get together to chat, learn and have a good time. It is a chance for those of us who sit holed up in our home offices most of the time to get out and meet other…
  • Thomson Invests Another $25 Million in Lending Club – Today Lending Club announced that Peter Thomson, chairman of Thomvest and Director of the Thomson Reuters Corporation has made another $25 million investment. This is on top of the $25 million that he made back in September last year. Like many retail investors Thomson decided to get his feet wet (if you can call investing…
  • Credit scores on the rise in the U.S. – With the recession, Americans have seen some of the most astonishing and drastic shifts in our money markets. The nation’s individual credit scores have been no exception. According to Lisa Gerstner from Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine, this change has not only evened out, but is on a slow, positive rise. Lisa Gerstner writes, “As we…
  • Nickel Steamroller: An Alternative to Lendstats for Lending Club Investors – My post on Friday about the shut down of Lendstats has generated a lot of comments. I have also had many emails from concerned investors, some who are thinking of no longer investing without access to the kind of information that Lendstats provides. The good news is that there is an alternative out there, one…
  • Roundup of Social Lending News – July 14, 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 two detailed p2p lending portfolio updates this week from established bloggers, Investor Junkie and Nickel Steamroller….
  • Lendstats Loan Filtering is Down…Permanently? – I received an email this morning from a reader informing me that Lendstats filtering was down. While the Lendstats home page is still working when you go to the Prosper or Lending Club filtering pages you receive this message: Sorry, this page is currently unavailable. The first thing I did was check the Lendstats Forum…