Editor’s note: The interview below was not conducted by me. Another publication conducted this interview and wrote the article but...
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Below you will find the presentations of several speakers at LendIt USA 2015. This includes, Renaud Laplanche (Founder & CEO, Lending...
What a day. Everyone is still trying to digest the big news from Lending Club this morning. More details are...
Today we got a glimpse of what former Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche has been working on since he resigned...
Renaud Laplanche has announced the launch of a new online consumer lending platform called Upgrade; the firm's investors include Apoletto, CreditEase, FirstMark Capital, Noah Holdings, Ribbit Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Union Square Ventures, Uprising and Vy Capital; the firm will partner with WebBank for loan originations and plans to sell its loans to institutional investors; it is working with Jefferies on its capital markets strategy and a loan securitization program; the firm also has plans to use blockchain for data management and transactions. Source
Just last month we hosted our largest event, which brought together nearly 2,500 delegates to New York for LendIt USA...
When I first read the news when I woke up this morning I thought it must have been a joke....
According to the Wall Street Journal, former Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche has started a new online lender called Credify; the company has setup offices in the financial district of San Francisco and was incorporated less than a month after leaving Lending Club; former Lending Club executives Jeff Bogan and Adelina Grozdanova have also joined the new company; it plans to make its first loans in 2017. Source
Many of us in this industry will be glad to see the last of 2016. It has been a difficult...
Just before Christmas last year I went to San Francisco to sit down for a chat with former Lending Club...