brip blap - Latest Comments in Lending Club update

Re: Lending Club update

thickenmywallet — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:57:52 -0000

Both Prosper and Lending Club have to register with the SEC. What they do can be considered a "security" (as legally defined). I can't comment on why Lending Club has stopped taking no lenders while Prosper continues to take new lenders while both are undertaking the same regulatory compliance.

Re: Lending Club update

Brett @ Personal Loan Portfoli — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:45:02 -0000

DGI: I don't think they are running out of money because they have announced that they will be funding all loans by borrowers through the quiet period. It seems more like a change in regulatory model.

Re: Lending Club update

deepali — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:46:51 -0000

It sounds as though Lending Club is changing the way it processes loans (by issuing promissory notes as opposed to whatever they were doing before). So until the change is fully enacted, they've stopped processing loans.

Re: Lending Club update

Dividend growth investor — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:27:25 -0000

That's alarming for me. I hope LC does not go down with our money :-(
I really hope that Prosper, LC and others are not pyramid schemes where you get paid to refer people and then the money is borrowed by P2P lenders themselves and paid out in bonuses to new members in order to attract fresh money from outside. At the same time the default ratio of loans increases...

Re: Lending Club update

SavingDiva — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:55:04 -0000

I don't think existing lenders can bid on loans either. I tried to yesterday with existing cash reserves and nothing went through. I don't know how they'll be able to fund loans if they won't let lenders bid on them.