1996 was great year. Hootie & the Blowfish were packing stadiums. Cellphones were just starting to get a little bit smaller than that monstrosity famously used by Michael Douglas in the 1987 classic film, “Wall Street”. Starbucks opened its first store outside of North America, gracing Asia with custom lattes. The infrastructure to support this […]
Are We in a Peer to Peer Bubble?
I’ve always said that you can gauge the success of an industry by the growth and enthusiasm of its annual convention. It’s also a great barometer of market peaks and bubbles – especially when you have the chance to really get into the psyche of industry participants. With venture capital pouring into online lending businesses […]
Deleveraging America with P2P Lending
The debt side of crowdfinance – typically called P2P (“peer-to-peer”), online or marketplace lending – continues to mushroom at a neck breaking pace, attributable primarily to meatier yields that in many instances have returned more to investors in one month than conventional fixed-income asset classes do in an entire year. Cormac Leech of Liberum estimates […]
Inspiration & Insights from LendIt 2014
I’d like to thank all of the leading and emerging online lending platforms, the industry’s investors as well as its infrastructure and service providers who traveled from all four corners of the globe to attend LendIt 2014. Working with the LendIt team to provide the industry with its annual forum has been one of the […]