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P2P Lending Services – Loan Volumes September 2013

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P2P lending volumes grew again in September. Lending Club originated more than 200 million US$ in loans in one month. I do monitor development of p2p lending figures for many markets. Since I already have most of the data on file I can publish statistics on the monthly loan originations for selected p2p lending services. This time I added Folk2Folk to the table.

Table: P2P Lending Volumes in September 2013. Source: own research
Note that volumes have been converted from local currency to US$ for the sake of comparision. Some figures are estimates/approximations.

Notice to p2p lending services not listed:
If you want to be included in this chart in future, please email the following figures on the first working day of a month: total loan volume originated since inception, loan volume originated in previous month, number of loans originated in previous month, average nominal interest rate of loans originated in previous month.

P2P Lending Loan Volumes in August 2013

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P2P Lending volumes have grown again in August. I do monitor development of p2p lending figures for many markets. Since I already have most of the data on file I can publish statistics on the monthly loan originations for selected p2p lending services. This time there are two more services listed than last month.

Table: P2P Lending Volumes in August 2013. Source: own research
Note that volumes have been converted from local currency to US$ for the sake of comparision. Some figures are estimates/approximations.

Notice to p2p lending services not listed:
If you want to be included in this chart in future, please email the following figures on the first working day of a month: total loan volume originated since inception, loan volume originated in previous month, number of loans originated in previous month, average nominal interest rate of loans originated in previous month.

Zopa Discontinues 1 Year Loans

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Zopa stopped accepting applications for 1 year p2p loans today and now concentrates on 2-5 year loan terms.

…we’ve stopped accepting applications for 1 year loans.

We introduced 1 year loans at the start of the year, with the expectation that they would become a strong channel for new loans and provide good returns to savers.  We have found that a large number of customers have now come to us applying for 1 year loans, but unfortunately we approve comparatively few of them and for the time being we believe it is ultimately better for savers to bring in more applicants for 2-5 year loans (which are much more popular choices of loan length) than continue to assess 1 year applicants.

P2P Lending Volumes in July 2013

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It has been some time since I last did an article at P2P-Banking.com on lending volumes. I do monitor development of p2p lending figures for many markets. Since I already have most of the data on file I can publish statistics on the monthly loan originations for selected p2p lending services. July was another month of rapid growth. As the table shows p2p volumes originated grew strongly for nearly all services when compared to the last month or last years month.


Table: P2P Lending Volumes in July 2013. Source: own research
Note that volumes have been converted from local currency to US$ for the sake of comparision. Some figures are estimates/approximations.

Notice to p2p lending services not listed:
If you want to be included in this chart in future, please email the following figures on the first working day of a month: total loan volume originated since inception, loan volume originated in previous month, number of loans originated in previous month, average nominal interest rate of loans originated in previous month.

Zopa Announce Business Loans

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Zopa has announced that they will start to offer business loans soon. Zopa will start with loans to sole traders.

Soon we will introduce business loans to Zopa, offering good value loans to sole traders.

We’ve chosen to start our business loans with sole traders for two reasons:
1. We saw that there were few opportunities for smart sole traders, with a good credit and trading history, to access good-value loans.
2. Sole traders are often looking for loans of a similar size and time period as our personal loan borrowers so offering these loans doesn’t require big changes for our savers to the way they choose to lend

Ratesetter Raises 5M Funding – Valued at over 30M

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Ratesetter has raised 5 million GBP funding in June from existing shareholders, who include Peel Hunt founder Charles Peel, fund manager John Chatfeild-Roberts and Lazard chairman Ken Costa, plus a new Hong Kong-based investor. The founder Peter Behrens and Rhydian Lewis still own an almost 40% stake in the company which in this round had a valuation of more than 30 million GBP. Ratesetter, which aims to fund over 100 million GBP in p2p loans this year, reached break-even in January and will use the new capital to foster further growth.

(Source: Lucy Tobin, London Evening Standard, July 1st 2013)