Posted by Renaud Laplanche :: January 28, 2010 @ 2:37 pm

Identity verification is a critical fraud prevention tool used by banks, credit card companies and other lenders.   Lending Club has recently begun to leverage the information available on social networks to help confirm a potential member’s identity.
We continue to rely on methods of identity verification used by traditional lenders, but in an era of online [...]

Posted by Patrick Gannon :: January 27, 2010 @ 7:44 pm

Lending Club award-winning approach to investing and borrowing has been recognized through the years by organizations such as Harvard Business Review, Webby, WebAward, and W3 Awards.  But we had never been considered for something as unique as the Shorty Awards.
The Shorty Awards honor the best people and organizations creating content on Twitter. These unique [...]

Posted by Rob Garcia :: January 27, 2010 @ 5:00 am

I did not expect to be reminiscing about 2009 this early in the new year.  But I now find myself looking back and marveling at how Lending Club went from half-operating in 2008, to getting through the registration process with the SEC in October of 2008, to then become a world leader in peer-to-peer lending [...]

Posted by Rob Garcia :: January 14, 2010 @ 8:00 pm

Hundreds of people have already taken Lending Club's DebtBuster challenge and are on their way to pay off their debt once and for all...  and we still have 2 more weeks to go!
Help us get the word out and win a nifty t-shirt or some of the other cool Lending Club merchandise we got.  We [...]

Posted by Rob Garcia :: January 13, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

Have you taken the Lending Club DebtBuster challenge yet? If not, we are happy to announce we are extending it until the end of the month.
Right before the Christmas break, Lending Club announced our DebtBuster Challenge, in partnership with 5 of the best "DebtBuster” bloggers, to offer advice and encourage those with credit card [...]