The online lender has started a new marketing push to highlight new product offering to millennials; the company placed ads over the Thanksgiving holiday on TV and in newspapers with a unique twist on Black Friday. Source
The only online lender focused on veteran-owned businesses has found a recipe for success. Source
Lend Academy reviews LendingClub's Investor Day and shares the most interesting developments including a new “Exchange Traded Partnership”, details on direct payoff loans and new features of their auto finance product. Source
There are unique tax implications when it comes to investing in marketplace lending and investors should consider investing through an IRA; LendingClub is currently offering a bonus for IRA investments and is working with a new preferred custodian. Source
The new loan product is helping Americans get quick access to cash but it is not entirely free. Source
With fall approaching there are many conferences to attend for fintech professionals; Lend Academy shares a description of each conference as well as discount codes for attending some of the conferences; list includes FinovateFall, ABS East, OLPI Policy Summit, LendIt Europe 2017, Lend360, Money2020, American Banker's Digital Lending & Investing, AltFi Global Summit, IMN Investors Conference on Marketplace Lending, and Marketplace Lending & Alternative Financing Summit 2017. Source
Lend Academy provides a follow-up to their article on investment platforms for non-accredited investors; gives ten investment platforms for accredited investors across real estate, small business and consumer; defines the parameters for an accredited investor. Source
There have been a lot of executives recently who have expressed their opinions about cryptocurrencies; while many people agree that the technology behind bitcoin has huge potential, there are a wide variety of opinions about cryptocurrencies; Lend Academy shares quotes from Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan), Larry Fink (Blackrock), Mike Novogratz (Galaxy Digital Assets Fund), James Gorman (Morgan Stanley),Axel Weber (UBS), Christine Lagarde (Head of the International Monetary Fund) and Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman Sachs). Source
Lend Academy provides insight on achieving success from this year's Fintech Woman of the Year finalists; highlights include visualizing success, setting goals and learning from experiences; the article also includes a link to a recent Exchanges at Goldman Sachs podcast where Goldman Sachs' global co-head of the Industrials Group in Investment Banking shares her career advice. Source
GreenSky offers a unique type of point of sale financing and has just closed a $200 million round. Source