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CommonBond, a marketplace lender specializing in private student loans, announced its first securitization Wednesday.
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Online marketplace lender CommonBond has announced that Nelnet, an education planning and financing company, has agreed to finance at least $150 million of CommonBond's annual loan volume.
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Student lending startup CommonBond has hired Morgan Edwards, a longtime Wall Street leveraged debt specialist, as its chief financial officer.
Edwards recently served as a managing director of Macquarie Capital, an Australian investment banking firm, where he oversaw leveraged finance for the telecom, media, and technology sectors, as well as middle market lending. Earlier, Edwards worked at Morgan Stanley and other firms in debt capital markets.
New York-based CommonBond is an online marketplace lender, or peer-to-peer lender, that so far has specialized in private student lending.
In June, the company announced the completion of its first securitization, a
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Edwards will take charge of underwriting at CommonBond, in addition to seeking to build relationships with more financial institutions. He replaces Mike Taormina, a CommonBond co-founder who left the company early this year to finish his Master of Business Administration at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School in May.
CommonBond also announced that Charles Stonehill, managing partner at consultancy TGG Group, will join the company's board. TGG Group Chairman Vikram Pandit, the former Citigroup chief executive, is an investor in CommonBond.
