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The go-go days of marketplace lending have screeched to a halt in recent weeks, as anxiety spreads among the big-money investors who fueled the sector's rapid growth.
February 25
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's announcement Monday that it is accepting complaints about marketplace lenders is a sure sign it is moving toward regulating the burgeoning industry.
March 8
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Social Finance's launch of a hedge fund to buy its loans should set off alarm bells among online lending cheerleaders in venture capital and stock markets; it also points the way to a long-term future for best-of-breed alternative lenders.
March 20
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The increasingly troubled sector often draws comparisons to the subprime mortgage market of the 2000s. But the more apt analogue is the auto-lending sector of the 1990s.
March 17
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Buyers of broadly syndicated corporate loans currently have an incentive to drag their feet closing trades; they will soon pay a hefty price if they dont do their part. The reform should help lenders get assets off their books faster.
March 28
