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The high volume of commercial mortgages maturing this year has left some property owners scrambling for funds to refinance. Not so for these eight borrowers, who took advantage of the strong price appreciation of their iconic office buildings, luxury hotels, super regional shopping malls, and even a portfolio of rental homes, to cash out … In some cases, the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars of equity.

This year federal and state regulators have started to pay closer attention to the rapidly evolving online-lending sector — particularly online small-business lending. What follows is a look at eight key players in the debate over how to regulate this emerging industry.