Weekly Roundup of Social Lending News – May 21, 2011

I am starting a new regular feature on the blog this weekend. I share links of news articles from around the web on Twitter all week, but readers of the blog will miss these gems unless you are following along on Twitter.

So, here is some weekend reading for you. These are my featured articles from this past week:

San Francisco Business Times: Lending Club CEO says IPO not for ‘several years’

Prosper’s blog: An Updated View on Risk Performance

P2P Banking: Do Your Friends Determine If You Are Creditworthy?

Doughroller: Lending Club Investment Strategy (Update)

Tiny Little Loans: Strategy Shift

P2P Lending News: Why People Worry About Peer-to-Peer Lending

About the Author

  • Peter Renton

    Peter Renton is the chairman and co-founder of LendIt Fintech, the world’s first and largest digital media and events company focused on fintech. Peter has been writing about fintech since 2010 and he is the author and creator of the Fintech One-on-One Podcast, the first and longest-running fintech interview series. Peter has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Times, CNBC, CNN, Fortune, NPR, Fox Business News, the Financial Times, and dozens of other publications.

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