By Zeke Faux for Bloomberg For Avant’s Al Goldstein, being the quickest online-loan startup to

By Romain Dillet for TechCrunch French startup Lydia raised $7.8 million (€7 million) from New

By Josh Constine for TechCrunch LendUp was supposed to be different than the payday loan sharks that

By Julie (Schicktanz) Muhn for Finovate Australia-based P2P lender SocietyOne announced a new bank partner

By Nadine Freischlad for TechInAsia Indonesian microlending site UangTeman raised a pre-series A round of

SoFi announced today the creation of SoFi at Work, a benefit program for companies to

UK money management app Pariti has formed a referral partnership with P2P financing outfit Zopa

By WSJ The threat of Brexit has failed to dent the plans of LendInvest, the

By EMILY GLAZER for WSJ J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is trying to make the car-buying

BY REUTERS The government is trying to clean up the giant $60 billion sector.

By Yolanda Redrup for AFR Fintech start-up Bigstone has raised $3 million from a range of

By LTP Over the past six months, alternative finance, in particular, P2P lending, has gone

By Hooyeon Kim for Bloomberg South Korean investors beset by Asia’s third-lowest benchmark yields are embracing peer-to-peer

By Roger Aitken for Forbes Campaign for Fair Finance (CFF) founder Dr Roger Gewolb has

Peer-To-Peer Lending In China by Henry Zhang, CFA – Matthew Asia While I was on

By Nav Athwal for Forbes Recent news reports would have investors believe that the entire

By PETER RUDEGEAIR and TELIS DEMOS for WSJ Mike Cagney, the boss at online lender

By TELIS DEMOS and PETER RUDEGEAIR for WSj Charge-off rates have risen as much as

By Jennifer Surane for Bloomberg Renaud Laplanche, the LendingClub Corp. founder who stepped down as

By Paul Sawers for Venture Beat A Russian startup is launching in the U.S. this

by Howard Lindzon for Techcrunch.com The term “fintech” has become all the rage; investors and media

By HEATHER SOMERVILLE, OLIVIA ORAN AND JOY WILTERMUTH for Reuters  Many online lenders have failed to detect

By Patric Jenkins for Irish Times It’s growing in popularity in Ireland but credit quality

By the Economist “WHAT rate of interest…can naturally be more proper than another?” asked Jeremy

By Reuters  A large Chinese online lending platform accused of illegal operations has suspended operations,

By Reuters A large Chinese online lending platform accused of illegal operations has suspended operations,

By Mike Lobanov for Techcrunch The meteoric rise of e-lending platforms attracted a lot of

By Rohit Arora for Forbes FinTech firms disrupted the small business credit marketplace by developing

By Min Zhang for Techcrunch.com A friend who recently started his own business couldn’t obtain

By Yong Heong Tung for e27.com Advancements in the fintech space have opened up new