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The Lending Club Story: How the world's largest peer to peer lender is transforming finance and how you can benefit Kindle Edition

by Peter Renton (Author), Renaud Laplanche (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
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Every now and then a company comes along that completely transforms an industry. Today, what Lending Club is doing to the financial services industry is truly revolutionary. The way we invest and borrow money is being changed forever.

With over $1 billion in loans issued Lending Club is quickly moving towards the mainstream of consumer finance. Peer to peer lending can no longer be ignored as a passing fad, it is clearly here to stay.

The Lending Club Story is the first book ever published about Lending Club, the world’s largest p2p lender. It is part storytelling, part investment guide and part reference book.

In this book Peter Renton, the publisher of the most widely read blog on peer to peer lending, will explain:

•What is peer to peer lending and why it is becoming so popular
•How Lending Club went from just an idea to $1 billion in loans in less than six years
•How a little startup called Lending Club thrived during and after the financial crisis while some of the largest companies on Wall Street were collapsing
•How investors are benefiting from this new kind of investment
•How the borrowing process works at Lending Club
•What the future holds for this fast growing company

Many intelligent investors from successful hedge funds as well as small mom and pop investors are moving money away from the stock and bond markets and into peer to peer lending with Lending Club. After you have read this book you will understand why.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00A22QIKM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (November 4, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 4, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1038 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 74 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 76 ratings

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M. Murdoch
4.0 out of 5 stars Valuable, But Only For the U.S. Market
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2012
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This was an awesome read about something I knew little about. I enjoyed learning about Peer to Peer lending and think that it's a concept that might give the banks a good kick up the you-know-what. I would love to get involved in the Lending Club myself, as I think it's a valid form of investment that is ethically positive, however members are at this current time restricted to the US and I don't live there.

If you do live in the US, however, and are looking for another form of income in a form that might just get someone the business or personal funding they need, this book is a great place to look. It is easy and pleasurable to read and gives great insight into where the world's financial market may head if the banks don't lift their game.
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TeamWork Realty
5.0 out of 5 stars An Author Worth Following
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012
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I've been following Peter Renton's LendAcademy.com blog for roughly a year now. Through various investing strategies and tools I would not have known about if not for him (including 'the now defunct' LendStats, Prosper-Stats.com, EricsCC.com, and InterestRadar.com to name a few) I have become a relatively successful P2P investor. I run 3 Prosper accounts (cash, my IRA, my wife's IRA) as well as a Lending Club account. I average about 15% across all four accounts.

While Peter's book is not a "hear's how to make money" tutorial, if you want to be successful in the P2P arena you need to "know the ins and outs", "the devil's in the details", "throw in your own cliche here". Follow his work and you will know more about P2P lending, period. Peter is incredibly active in the community of P2P lending. He regularly reposts and/or responds to my own blog posts on ProsperToRetire.com, and even helped publicize one of my P2P lending tools BidCopy at NumberWhale.com.

It sounds like I'm just tossing around URL's, but it's to show that Peter is very active and heavily involved. He knows what's going on in the P2P market. When Prosper recently made a controversial blog post about changing the data they would make publicly available to researchers/developers (changing XML to CSV), he and I were immediately emailing each other and Prosper for answers. Albeit, Peter demands a response from Prosper better than I :)

Word has it he will be publishing a similar Prosper Story in 2013 which I look forward to reading as well. He writes in an easy-to-understand language which can be challenging for the writer when you're speaking of percentages, investments, returns, etc. Read his book, read his blog ...then read my blog :) ..., have fun investing, make money. 'Nuff Said
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not really a great book
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016
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Most information you can find only. Some examples,some good point. Overall, not really a good book. It gives general information about p2p. Good for beginner or someone does not know anything about p2p, you can google online.
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Mike McGeary
4.0 out of 5 stars I love P2P lending.
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2012
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This book didn't tell me anything I already didn't know, but thats because I've been following peer to peer lending for a few years now. Peter is the ultimate source of all information in the industry and this book is a very good introduction to it. My only complaint is its total lack of anything about prosper.com, although I think overall it does an incredible job of giving insight to this growing investment opportunity.
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mphill
5.0 out of 5 stars A Complete Guide to Lending Club and Investing
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2012
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Peter did a great job detailing the history of Lending Club in this book. Learning the motivation for why P2P platforms like Lending Club and Prosper were created can help new investors understand what P2P lending is, and how it might make sense for their portfolio.

The pace of the book is what I would consider great, and it's easy to follow even if you have limited investing experience. Although I am not on the borrower side, Peter makes a point include interviews with borrowers. It was rewarding to see how investors are making a positive impact on people's lives when banks are typically reluctant to do so.

From an investor perspective, Peter will take you though all the steps needed to start investing and much more. He also offers strategic advice on how to put together an investment strategy using several analytical website resources. He does not tell you how to invest exactly, but will recommend the tools to deploy capital in an intelligent way.
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Peter Cleary
2.0 out of 5 stars Would have liked more than the token insights into the entrepreneurs behind ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2015
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More of a user manual then anything else. Would have liked more than the token insights into the entrepreneurs behind Lending Club, their story and advice to other entrepreneurs.
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jackie to
1.0 out of 5 stars Don’t waste your money
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2020
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Might as well be a lending club brochure. I expected this to be an origin story with insider accounts about the founding of lending club, but instead, it covered lending club’s products and general timelines.
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dmof10
4.0 out of 5 stars A good starter book about the lending club
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
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If you are interested in learning about the lending club and how it works, this will be a good start for you. It tell how the company got started, and how it has grown. You get insight from those who use it as a means to make money and stories on those who borrowed the money.
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pevan
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in Spain on November 7, 2013
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Definitely not a must read book. Disappointing in all aspects, poor analysis, poor detailed information. It's better going to their website and dive for info. So sorry.
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Tim
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2012
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EXCELLENT book. Really clearly written and the excitement that is P2P comes through loud and clear. Anyone who is looking to invest in P2P and want to know how The Lending Club works should read this book. Peter Renton is an absolute authority on this.
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Ace
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for background information
Reviewed in Japan on January 17, 2014
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Learned a lot from this book, from the background to pitfalls of the business. 4 stars.
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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars interesting worth a read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2014
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Very interesting how it has grow so rapidly in such a short space of time also takes you through some borrowers profiles
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