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Activist Investor Targets LendingClub

Peter Renton·
FintechNews RoundupUSA
·May. 11, 2018·1 min read

In a week where LendingClub posted their first quarter earnings sending their stock up by more than 25% an activist investor has sent a letter to the company. Quarz Capital Management has several gripes with LendingClub: describing their 2018 targets as unconvincing and unambitious, management pay as too high and argued that excess cash should be returned to the shareholders. Source.

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    Peter Renton cofounded Fintech Nexus as the world’s largest digital media company focused on fintech before it was acquired by Command. Peter has been writing about fintech since 2010 and he is the author and creator of the Fintech One-on-One Podcast, the first and longest-running fintech interview series.

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