Fintech One-On-One

Session 16 of the Lend Academy Podcast features Charles Moldow, a partner at the venture capital firm Foundation Capital. His firm has made several equity investments in the p2p lending industry, the most notable of which is their investment in Lending Club last year alongside Google.He recently authored the popular white paper titled A Trillion Dollar Market By the People, For the People. We talk about this white paper and get Moldow's view on the industry and where it is headed.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

In Episode 15 we talk with Emmanuel Marot, the co-founder and President at LendingRobot. His company has created an investing tool of the same name that helps individual investors automate their investing on the Lending Club and Prosper platforms. LendingRobot uses the API of both platforms to execute loan orders as soon as new loans are added to the respective platforms.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

Dara Albright is the co-founder of the LendIt Conference, the wold's first and largest peer to peer lending conference. We discuss LendIt 2014 on May 4-6 in San Francisco.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

Don Davis is the president of Prime Meridian Capital Management and the managing partner of the Prime Meridian Income Fund (PMI). This is a fund for accredited investors that was started in 2012 and invests primarily on the Prosper platform today.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

In the online space small business lending is several years behind consumer lending and there are no players with long track records like Lending Club and Prosper. But the longest track record belongs to Funding Circle, who have been in business since 2010. With their merger with Endurance Lending last year, the small business lending space in this country gets to benefit directly from the knowledge and history of this leading player. In this podcast we talk with Alex Tonelli, the Managing Director at Funding Circle, about how his company has been doing since the merger, his passion for small business lending and where Funding Circle is going.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

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Last month I visited San Francisco and brought along my trusty audio recorder for a podcast interview in the Lending Club offices with Scott Sanborn. Sanborn joined Lending Club in 2010 as the Chief Marketing Officer and last year was promoted to Chief Operating Officer. He is responsible for Lending Club’s day to day operations and he has still maintained his marketing role.We talked about a number of different topics in particular the rapid growth of Lending Club and how they are managing this growth, balancing demand from from the retail and institutional investors, Lending Club PRIME, Policy Code 2 loans and of course, the topic that seems to be on everyone’s mind these days: the Lending Club IPO.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

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While in London last week I sat down at the offices of Liberum Capital, a UK investment bank, to talk with Cormac Leech and his team. Liberum are somewhat unique in that they have a team devoted to studying the p2p lending market - they have probably more knowledge about this sector than any other investment bank in the UK or the US.Connect with Fintech One-on-One:Tweet me @PeterRentonConnect with me on LinkedInFind previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

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