Posted by Lending Club :: April 7, 2011 @ 4:14 pm

Getting sick or having a major medical condition is awful, but many people who’ve been in that situation say that the bills that follow a major illness or injury are just as bad.  In fact, these can pile so high that they feel like another injury in addition to the original one.  Some patients find [...]

Posted by Lending Club :: March 11, 2011 @ 11:39 pm

Many banks have gotten too big to fail (and gotten even bigger recently), but have they also become too big to…innovate? It’s clear that big banks have lost their innovative edge. Frustrated customers are walking away from banks, but this seems to not have sparked creativity from their upper management. Luckily for consumers, there is [...]

Posted by Lending Club :: March 11, 2011 @ 1:00 pm

This is your guide to SXSW Interactive’s financial innovation sessions. SXSW has become the annual gathering of geeks, thought leaders, VCs, distruptors and counter-thinkers.  Innovation in financial services has slowly made its way into this world famous conference with Mint.com, Kiva, Kickstarter, Lending Club, Credit Karma, Smarty Pig, Citi and others showing up last year [...]

Posted by Lending Club :: March 11, 2011 @ 4:45 am

Unless you’re a mechanic, you probably dread the day you have to take your car into the shop. Whether it’s making an unusual noise or it’s just time to change the oil, you often end up spending more than you’d hoped. However it doesn’t have to be this way. With just a little bit of [...]

Posted by Lending Club :: March 11, 2011 @ 2:52 am

The following is a guest post written in collaboration with Brett King, author of the Bestselling book Bank 2.0 and strategic advisor to the global financial services sector.  He publishes regularly in his role as industry advisor at The Banker, Huffington Post, Internet Evolution, FinExtra and his own personal blog Banking4Tomorrow.com. It is a common [...]