Mike Lobanov

Mike Lobanov is a partner at Target Global.

Mike Lobanov

In October 2016, two leading P2P platforms in the U.S. — Lending Club and Prosper — announced a new increase in interest rates for lower-grade loans. The decision was made…

Tech will lead to new sub-prime crunch

Those of us interested in marketplace lending have recently observed many pejorative headlines about P2P lending platforms, which mostly reported on Lending Club’s recent difficulties, but also criticized other platforms…

Enjoy the return and watch for unemployment

The meteoric rise of e-lending platforms attracted a lot of interest among investors and entrepreneurs. Lending Club and OnDeck have already become public companies, and their competitors, such as Funding…

The mercurial nature of P2P lending

Lending, one of the biggest industries, is currently undergoing a transformation. As it was with the automobile industry transformation, a number of modern innovators will probably face serious difficulties, some…

Making sense of the lending industry’s rapid changes

Lending Club, the largest P2P lending platform in the U.S., has seen its share price drop by more than 50 percent since December 10; the price per share on the…

What Lending Club’s falling share price means for the P2P lending sector