Lending Club Loan Default and Credit Score and Debt-to-Income Ratio
In my post over the weekend, I took a quick look at Lending Club’s new statistics page. The improved web page offers potential lenders a range of tools to evaluate the overall performance and risk of lending money through Lending Club. In addition to statistics provided by LC, you can also download raw data from [...]
Lending Club’s New Statistics Page Looks Good
One of the biggest challenges when investing through social lending platforms such as Lending Club is evaluating loans to minimize, but not totally avoid, risks involved in lending money to total strangers. It’s not an easy task because, though Lending Club does its job to collect and verify the data, there’s just some much information [...]
Learn More About Lending Club Credit Rating and Collection Process
I have been using Lending Club as an alternative investment vehicle for more than half a year now. At beginning, I could only invest in LC loans through their note trading platform because of the residency restrictions. Then since last month, I began to invest directly with Lending Club after moving from NJ to VA.
Currently, [...]
Invest Directly with Lending Club
I have been quite active in investing with Lending Club since February. However, for months, I can only buy loans on the secondary market because of Lending Club’s residence restriction which prohibits residents of New Jersey from lending directly. Though I was able to buy some notes at discount early on, most of the notes [...]
Lending Club $2500 Giveaway
Are you using Lending Club? If not, then here’s your chance to win $2,500.
The popular peer-to-peer lending site is going to have its 25,000th investor some time this month. To celebrate this milestone, Lending Club announced yesterday that the 25,000th registered investor will receive a total of $2,500 cash from LC!
I started investing with Lending [...]
Two of My Lending Club Loans Are 30 Days Late
Apparently, I was a little overstated the status of my Lending Club loans when I updated my loan portfolio and stated that there was no late or default. Somehow, I skipped one page where there are two $50 loans that are already more than 30 days late when I checked last night, both from the [...]
Lending Club Loan Composition
It has been nearly three months since I last updated my Lending Club loan portfolio, even though I wasn’t quiet during this period of time. In fact, I have already more than doubled the number of loans I own since I got into the peer-to-peer lending business in February. Right now, I have 54 notes [...]
Prosper Relaunches, Becomes Prosper Loans Marketplace
Prosper, once the largest operator of peer-to-peer lending until it shut down its operation in October 2008 amid regulatory scrutiny, has relaunched yesterday and now it’s called Prosper Loans Marketplace, with a twist on how to lend and borrow. However, since the Prosper is still in the process of completing registration with the Security and [...]
Lending Club Introduces Self-Directed IRA in Peer-to-Peer Lending
Lending Club, the only SEC registered peer-to-peer lending site, today announced the introduction of the first ever self-directed IRA to let lenders save for retirements through P2P lending. The new self-directed IRA accounts are managed by EntrustCAMA, a custodian of both self-directed and real estate IRAs.
Currently, Lending Club self-directed IRA plan participants can choose to [...]
What I Checked Before Buying Loans with Lending Club
Is Lending Club Safe? As a platform for peer-to-peer lending, Lending Club itself is safe. It’s lending money through Lending Club that carries risk. However, by carefully evaluate and select each loan, risk can be reduced and return can be improved.
I have been gradually building up my Lending Club loan portfolio in the past few [...]
