Money Tips and Advice

We are thrilled to announce that  Lending Club has been chosen as one of the 2010 AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies. Other winners include LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, SolarCity, FourSquare and Yelp.  No other financial innovation company was included in the prestigious list.
AlwaysOn, the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon [...]

It was during the first week of June in 2007, when the Lending Club team was huddled around a screen watching our first loan originate.   Thanks to an amazing team, participative users, and rapid adoption of the peer lending concept in the US, we have come a long way since our days as a the [...]

Back in March, Lending Club launched its first ever Lending Club Photo Contest to celebrate our new site and brand.  We invited all professional and amateur photographers to submit up to 4 photographs for a chance to win the $1,000 first place prize and many other prizes.  The response was fantastic [...]

It’s Fourth of July weekend once more:  time to celebrate the independence of this grand nation we live in.
Independence Day is a holiday to look forward to.  After all, it is arguably the most fun of them all: fireworks, picnics with friends, parades, barbecues, carnivals and fairs,  concerts, baseball (and world cup soccer) games, special [...]

Americans still aren’t making the most of hard-learned credit lessons: they continue to carry high interest credit card debt and do not know how to improve their credit scores, according to the results of a survey conducted online from May 20-24, 2010 by Harris Interactive® on behalf of Lending Club, the leading U.S. [...]

We are thrilled to announce the top 15 photographs of our first Lending Club Photo Contest.
More than 250 photos from hundreds of artists were submitted, making the final selection even more arduous…  so arduous, we could not keep it to just 10.
We invite you to vote for your favorite photograph(s) on our Facebook fan page [...]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, is a video worth an hundred thousand? a million? a billion words? According to 3 companies leading the world of on-line peer lending and microfinance, a video is worth, well, millions of dollars in loans issued.
Lending Club, Kiva and Microplace led the discussion at Microfinance USA [...]

On May 11th, Lending Club unveiled its new product offering, 5-year Notes, to our fast-growing financial network, rapidly capturing the attention and interest of investors.  Within a few days, the loan inventory doubled and our investors instantly had more Notes to choose from to invest.  These Notes represent 60-month loans [...]

The following is a guest post by DR, the founding blogger of the DoughRoller.net, a personal finance and investing blog. DR is also an investor in LendingClub notes.

When it comes to consolidating debt, you have a lot of options:  from home equity lines of credit to credit card balance transfers to unsecured loans.  [...]

This afternoon, executives from three fast-growing companies and proponents of micro and peer-to-peer lending will sit together on the panel entitled “The Rise of Peer-to-Peer Lending in the US”, as part of the Microfinance USA 2010 conference, organized by California-based Opportunity Fund.
According to Ed Kountz, a consumer payments analyst from market research [...]