By Josh Constine for Techcrunch.com, Banks are so greedy that LendUp can undercut them, help

By Bloomberg News, Lufax, a Chinese peer-to-peer lender and broker, has secured its position as

By Erin Hobey for Crowdfundinsider.com Almost one third of Americans are likely to be using a technology

By Tracy Alloway for Bloomberg.com So far, 2016 has not been a good year for

Chinese P2P (peer-to-peer) lending start-up Duanrong has completed RMB390 million (US$59 million) series B round

Tracxn Alternative Lending Report (202 Pages) finds that the Alternative Lending space has received a

TechCrunch: China Rapid Finance, which claims to be the country’s largest online consumer lending marketplace, has

E27.CO: Mumbai-based crowdfunding platform for social, personal and creative projects Ketto has raised US$700,000 in

TechCrunch: Affirm, the lending startup co-founded by Max Levchin, is breaking into student loans for coding,

VentureBeat: Startup ZestFinance today announced Basix, a new program for giving loans online to people

Wired: In 2009, a man named Duncan Chege opened up a modest Internet cafe –

TECHINASIA: These are just a few quotes from the media about an industry that has

EU-STARTUPS: In the last decade, there were a bunch of really successful fintech companies that

TECHCRUNCH: Former Disrupt Battlefield participant Self Lender has raised a $1.5 million round of seed

WIRED: Funding Circle, a marketplace for business loans, is one of a growing number of companies

TECHCRUNCH: Lendingkart, a New Delhi-based platform for small businesses loans, has raised a Series A

Bloomberg: As more Chinese jumped into the market in the hope of instant wealth, peer-to-peer websites

Business Insider: Banks have historically handled most consumer and small business lending because they have the

Business Insider: Challenger bank Metro Bank has just struck a deal with Zopa, one of the UK’s

VENTUREBEAT: PayPal revealed today that it has loaned $500 million to small businesses since its launch of Working

RE/CODE: Having dabbled in online slideshows and fertility tracking, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin has swung fully back to his

CROWDFUND INSIDER: Zopa, the first peer to peer lender in the UK, has partnered up with another

TECHINASIA: Online finance and lending platforms have been exploding in China, and the P2P lending sector

The Next Web: Y Combinator non-profit alum Zidisha is launching its cross-border P2P lending platform in Haiti, its

TECHINASIA: Peer-to-peer lending is one of the hottest – if not the hottest – business model in

TECHINASIA:  Peer-to-peer lending startup Jimubox has just secured $84 million in series C funding. It comes seven months

TECHCRUNCH: Here comes some more funding for a European financial tech company specialising in online loans.

TECHCRUNCH: Time to make way for another startup juggernaut out of the financial world. Funding Circle — a London-based peer-to-peer platform

TECHINASIA: Meeting Capital Match co-founders Pawel Kuznicki and Kevin Lim, it feels like they are well on

WIRED: Online peer-to-peer lending platforms have surged in popularity by connecting people who want to borrow