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The Spanish-language TV channel Univision has launched a new online small-business lending platform.
June 11 -
Marketplace lending company Lending Club is teaming up with a California-based nonprofit organization to make loans to small businesses that otherwise would have had their applications rejected.
June 10 -
Prosper Marketplace, the first peer-to- peer lender in the U.S., is planning to charge an extra fee to investors who want to bundle its loans into bonds in order to offset its increased costs from the securitization process.
June 10 -
CommonBond, a marketplace lender specializing in private student loans, announced its first securitization Wednesday.
June 10 -
The warehouse retail chain's partnerships with LendingClub and SmartBiz illustrate how bank branches are becoming less relevant in the lives of small-business owners.
June 9 -
The P-to-P industry in Britain has remained focused on individual investors, even as American firms have been courting institutional money. But the two markets may finally be starting to converge.
June 5
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In the second part of a three-part conversation, CommonBond Chief Executive David Klein weighs the competing goals of gaining market share and posting a profit in the nascent marketplace lending industry.
May 29
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The explosive growth of largely unregulated online lenders has given them new opportunities to prey on unsuspecting borrowers.
May 27
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A small Austin, Texas, bank, formerly called Libertad, had to abandon its initial plan to target unbanked Hispanics. But it has made the most of its second chance by finding a niche in lending to real estate investors. Now it's looking to diversify.
May 27
