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Entrepreneur July 2006 Carol Tice |
Fund Do Business borrowers and individual lenders come together on this new site. |
Entrepreneur February 2008 Rosalind Resnick |
Nothing Personal How can you protect yourself and your assets from risk when securing a business loan? |
Reason March 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Lender Ender Threats from state and federal regulators have led Prosper, an online auction site that allowed individuals to negotiate private loans, to suspend its operations and leaves its future uncertain. |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Carol Tice |
Peer Power Look online for funding by the people, for the people. |
Inc. August 2006 |
The Prosper Diaries Landing a loan on Prosper isn't always easy. Here's how one business owner navigated the process. |
Inc. August 2006 Alex Salkever |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The new alternative to banks and VCs: person-to-person lending. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Study Your College Loan Options Know when to use a private or a federal loan to pay your tuition bill. |
Bank Technology News December 2007 Michael Sisk |
The Rise of Community P2P is no threat to banks -- yet -- but the rise of these exchanges, which cut out banks and allow people to lend directly to each other is a phenomenon worth studying. Are P2P exchanges the credit unions of the Internet age? |
The Motley Fool November 23, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Find the Right Student Loan College loans come in many varieties. Some have very attractive provisions and guarantees, but others can spell trouble for even the most responsible young adults. |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: More Pops From the Housing Bubble So, HSBC has to fess up to unpredictable big spending on loans gone bad, then New Century Financial drops nearly 30% on a bit of a warning about loan production, as well as word of a do-over on 2006 results. |
Inc. May 2006 Nadine Heintz |
The eBay of Money Lending A new website called Prosper allows registered users to post proposals that solicit loans from other users on the site - up to $25,000, at a wide range of interest rates. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Get a Cheap Loan Fast ... From Yourself If you're facing a temporary setback and need a short-term solution, a 401(k) loan may not be as bad as some experts think, and a lot better than other alternatives. |
U.S. Banker January 2008 Michael Sisk |
The Rise of Lending Communities Peer-to-peer lending holds valuable clues to the nature of lending and borrowing. |
Entrepreneur May 2008 Scott Bernard Nelson |
Between Peers Could a new wave of social lending sites be a good place for your investment dollars? |
Fast Company April 1, 2007 Michael A. Prospero |
A Borrower or a Lender Be How Prosper.com is personalizing personal finance. |
National Real Estate Investor June 1, 2005 Kingsley Greenland |
Why Liquidity Should Help You Sleep Better There is no crystal ball that can predict the next lending squeeze, or if one will even occur. What is certain however, is that greater liquidity in the secondary market for commercial real estate loans is an important safety valve for the entire industry. |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2008 |
Navigating the Crunch A financial aid expert explains how borrowers can best ride it out. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Joseph Khattab |
Peer-to-Peer Lending Makes Waves A new trend in online lending challenges traditional banking. Peer-to-peer lending sounds like fun and games, but there's always risk involved with lending. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
The Dangers of Co-Signing Know what you're getting into before you guarantee someone else's debt. Co-signing on another person's loan is beyond the regular call of duty, and you shouldn't feel bad if you decide it's not worth risking your own financial stability to do it. |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Get Record-Low Rates This is a great time to consolidate your student loans and save money. |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Cut Your Borrowing Costs When you're looking to borrow money, always look into how much you can save by financing a little bit less. The savings from making even a small down payment will often pay dividends for years to come. |
U.S. Banker September 2010 Bonnie McGeer |
Finding the Right Match Online loan exchanges like BoeFly and Biz2Credit are gaining traction as banks look for new ways to find more small-business borrowers. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2010 David C. Hannah |
Community Banks Step Into a New Role Banks can band together with other similarly situated community banks to share the credit risk through a loan participation or syndication arrangement. |
The Motley Fool April 25, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Why Big Banks Are Cheap Loans dropping; watch out below! |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Nathan Parmelee |
Can Japanese Consumer Lenders Survive? There is little reason to think the fortunes of Japanese consumer lenders will improve. Investors, take note. |
AskMen.com March 4, 2001 Luis Rodrigues |
The Truth About Bank Loans When the time comes to borrow money from the bank to buy a house, a car or start a business, people still get extremely stressed about meeting with the banking loans officer... |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2003 Peltin & Swibel |
Lenders Tighten Loan Standards in Reaction to Uncertain Economy With interest rates at record lows, demand for new mortgage loans remains strong. However, in today's anemic economic climate, lenders face increased risk of making non-performing loans. Commercial lenders have implemented new safeguards and follow stricter policies to minimize exposure. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
Avoid the Loan Sharks For those with less-than-perfect credit histories, there's a scary trend in personal finance these days. In the name of convenience, some borrowers are digging themselves into a hole from which they may never emerge. |
Entrepreneur November 2007 Rosalind Resnick |
Find Unsecured Loans and Credit Lines How to get a bank loan without risking your personal record. |
Reason March 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
Dissatisfaction Guaranteed The government has decided to encourage more lenders to take more chances by guaranteeing yet more loans to high-risk borrowers. The only guarantee for these loans is that our children will be paying billions to cover the losses. |
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 John Rosevear |
Buying a Home During the Storm Essentially, what's going on is that the mortgage industry -- along with Wall Street -- is rethinking the appropriate pricing for taking on the risk of a borrower with a less-than-prime credit history. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2010 Donald Jay Korn |
College Loans Say Uncle The new law excluding banks from making federal education loans should be a PLUS for borrowers who can now turn to the Bank of Uncle Sam. |
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
California Bankin' Commercial Capital Bancorp posts solid results, but is the going getting tougher? |
Inc. February 2008 Robb Mandelbaum |
Soldiering On to Remake the SBA Steven Preston talks about efforts to improve the SBA's processes - and its image. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jul/Aug 2010 Cunill-Fals & JShindell |
Buying Into Distress This article discusses the typical loan purchase process and some of the advantages and disadvantages of buying nonperforming commercial real estate loans. |
BusinessWeek November 14, 2005 Lindsey Gerdes |
The Private-Loan Dilemma Unable to borrow enough via the federal government, more students are turning to other lenders, which can be a risky last resort. |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
The Real Threat to the U.S. Economy While big companies grab the headlines, small businesses need credit they can't get. |
BusinessWeek May 19, 2011 Sarah Mulholland |
Sallie Mae Makes a Surprising Comeback Supported by cash from its $146 billion government loan portfolio, Sallie Mae aims to build its private student lending business. |
BusinessWeek June 10, 2010 Schmidt & Westbrook |
An Online Lender Takes on the SEC Peer-to-peer lender Prosper Marketplace says it shouldn't be treated like an investment firm. |
The Motley Fool May 9, 2011 Cindy Johnson |
Are Banks Starting Another Race to the Bottom? Easier credit standards are being driven by competition to lend. |
U.S. Banker March 2011 Tim Grace |
Mortgage Buybacks Point To Need for Better Analytics With mortgage fraud rising, the need for consistent, industry-wide fraud controls are a fundamental building block for improved loan quality. |
Reason April 2002 Mike Lynch |
Legal Loan Sharking or Essential Service? The great "payday loan" controversy... |
U.S. Banker December 2010 Rob Garver |
SBA Aims to Attract More Banks The lower fees and higher guarantees enacted for the government s small-business lending programs have some in the industry optimistic that interest by banks might surge. |
National Real Estate Investor February 1, 2007 W. Joseph Caton |
Attached Strings to Conduit Loans As a property investor's real estate management needs and development skills expand, the nature of the loans that investor buys into begins to take on new meaning. |
National Real Estate Investor April 1, 2003 Kingsley Greenland |
Liquidity Crisis Averted With a weak economy and the prospect of war, real estate investors are understandably nervous. The good news is that they aren't handcuffed by a 1990s-style liquidity crisis that brought the industry to a standstill a decade ago. |
FDIC FYI February 27, 2002 |
Loan Weakness Spreads; Banks' Defenses Hold Large banks' business loans have been hit hardest by the recession, but some weakening is now appearing for smaller banks and for other kinds of loans... |
Commercial Investment Real Estate Jan/Feb 2011 Brad Cox |
The Loan Request Package How to request -- and get -- the best loan from today's limited lending sources |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2004 Roy Lewis |
Retirement Loans: Is the Interest Deductible? Make sure that you think things through before you decide to borrow against your plan. |
U.S. Banker February 2010 Alan Kline |
It's Too Soon to Pull the Plug on Higher SBA Coverage In the nine months after the stimulus bill was passed, lenders originated more than $16 billion in SBA-backed loans. It s fair to say that many of those loans would not have been made if not for the increased guarantee. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
The Smartest Move Colleges Ever Made Eliminating the middleman serves both schools and students. Colleges are at least making the right response to the credit crisis by making loans directly to their students. |