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

  • Roundup of Social Lending News – July 28, 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. It was a pretty quiet news week. The most interesting story of the week was the article on…
  • Consumers Have Increased Borrowing At the Fastest Rate Since 2000 – This week Prosper released their June 2012 Investor Monthly Update. This is the second update in the series (the May update is here) that provides interesting information not just on the performance of the Prosper investor portfolio but also some macroeconomic data as well. Written by Joseph Toms, Chief Investment Officer at Prosper, this month’s…
  • June, 2012 Investor Monthly Update – June was an exciting month for peer to peer lending. The industry hit $1 billion in combined loans back in May, and June commenced maintaining that momentum. Prosper saw record highs in loan originations throughout June, which we attribute to the growing recognition by borrowers and investors of peer to peer lending as well as…
  • P2P Lending in India – Interview with i-lend – VVSSB Shankar, founder & director of i-lend, answers the questions of P2P-Banking.com.
    What is i-lend about?
    i-lend is an Internet based P2P lending platform in India which went live two months ago. Presently this service is available in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. The portal connects the two sets of customers i.e. borrowers and investors who register online, undergo…
  • Beth’s Blog – We’ve had a great few weeks at Zopa with lots of people coming to us for loans and thanks to a few high profile spots in the press a lot of people wanting to lend! We were back on the telly last week in the first episode of Channel 4′s Bank on Dave, where our…
  • A Look to the Future: Peer to Peer Lending in 2020 – What follows is a work of fiction. It paints a picture of a possible future for p2p lending in the year 2020. It is September 2020. I am in San Francisco to give a speech at the fifth annual conference of the Direct Lending Association (DLA), the industry trade group. The name p2p lending all…
  • 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…