Events
All Past Events
October 27, 2010
Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption is the phrase coined by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers to describe the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities. In their book, What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, Rachel and Roo go deep into the origins, reach and future of this movement.
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July 27-29, 2010
AlwaysOn & STVP Summit at Stanford
Lending Club was honored as one of the 2010 AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies. Other winners include LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, SolarCity, FourSquare and Yelp.
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June 24, 2010
Webcast: Lending Club Investment Tools
Become a pro Lending Club investor and learn how to use a variety of powerful investment tools Lending Club offers. We'll also touch on how to use the secondary market to invest in Notes being sold by other investors.
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June 9, 2010
Webcast: Getting Started
Get smarter about P2P investing and listen to tips on how to maximize your return, properly diversify, and streamline your investment process.
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May 27, 2010
Webcast: Introducing 5-year Notes
Learn about the benefits of investing in 5-year Notes: more investment options, greater control, and an opportunity to earn more interest while diversifying across terms.
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May 20-21, 2010
Microfinance USA 2010, an Francisco, CA
Lenders and borrowers can now be complete strangers, encouraging borrowers to "market" their personal stories to lenders to get a loan.
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May 4, 2010
Google's ThinkFinance West, Mountain View, CA
Lending Club shared their perspective on digital marketing, while navigating the changing social media landscape.
April 30 - May 2, 2010
Startup Weekend Bay Area, San Jose, CA
Lending Club's Sr Director of Product Strategy, Rob Garcia, provided advice and sat on the judging panel to pick among 50+ new product ideas built in a weekend.
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April 22, 2010
WebCast: Beating the Average - Techniques for Maximizing Returns
Minimizing risks and maximizing returns requires thinking like a banker. During this WebCast, professional investor and fund manager Scott Langmack will discuss techniques that will help you earn like a pro, while keeping volatility and defaults in check.
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April 15, 2010
Bernal Economic Forum
Leveraging Lending Club's peer lending model to invest in your local communities and neighborhood businesses.
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April 7, 2010
Investor Forum
Get smarter about P2P investing and listen to tips on how to maximize your return, properly diversify, and streamline your investment process. Lending Club notes are offer by prospectus filed with the SEC. g
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March 13, 2010
SXSW Interactive 2010, Austin, TX
Banking 2.0: Financial Services Driven by People & Emerging Technologies
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March 4, 2010
Lending Club Identity and Web Site Tour
After launching a brand new identity and web site design, we hosted a WebCast where we gave a tour of the new site as well as shared the thinking behind the new Lending Club.
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February 11, 2010
Lending Club Invest & Drive Silicon Valley
Earlier this month, premier Lending Club investors came together to share investing stories and strategies as well as to celebrate the unveiling of our brand identity and new website.
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January 12, 2009
Investor Forum: Feel Smart?
Lending Club's Sam Kasle and Patrick Gannon shared tips on how to maximize your return, properly diversify, and how to streamline your investment process.
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December 10, 2009
Scott Langmack presents The Borrower Repayment Curve
Our special guest, Scott Langmack, explained his view of the "Borrower Repayment Cycle" and how distribution of defaults throughout the repayment timeline impact returns.
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December 3, 2009
Webcast: New Investor Tools. Peer Investing Made Easy
Our special guest was Lending Club's Senior Director, Rob Garcia, who demonstrated how investors with different investment profiles (loan picker, diversifier, and "diversipicker") can use our new investor tools to quickly identify Notes they may be interested in investing and build diversified portfolio in seconds without sacrificing control.
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November 22, 2009
Consumerism Commentary Podcast: Peer-to-Peer Lending and Target Date Funds
In their episode 31st, Consumerism Commentary's podcast host Tom Dziubek discusses peer-to-peer lending as an alternative to the traditional banking system with our own Renaud Laplanche (CEO) and Rob Garcia (Sr Director, Product Strategy).
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November 21, 2009
StartupWeekend: Alternative Ways of Funding Your Startup Ideas
Rob Garcia was the guest speaker during the opening night of this 3 day event in the Bay Area. He told more than 100 entrepreneurs ready to try their ideas out to not despair, as microfinance, peer-to-peer lending, crowdfunding and other innovative financial products come to the rescue.
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November 20, 2009
Forget Banks, Get Loans Through Peer to Peer Lending
Barry Moltz invited a couple of Lending Club members as well as our own Rob Garcia to his Business Insanity Talk Radio show to discuss the Peer-to-peer lending space and how Lending Club is a viable alternative to traditional financial institutions.
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November 17, 2009
Get Smarter with Lending Club's Live Investor Forum
Lending Club's Sam Kasle and Patrick Gannon shared tips on how to maximize your return, properly diversify, and streamline your investment process.
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November 12, 2009
Webcast: IRAs and The Power of Compound Interest
Our special guest, Scott Langmack, describes how "You don't need to be rich, to retire rich". In this recap video, Scott provides insights into his strategies for how people may be able to retire wealthy by opening a Lending Club No-Fee IRA Account. Author of Peer Lending Wealth, Scott also illustrates the power of IRA tax deferred compound interest, discusses investment strategies, and fields live viewers questions.
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October 29, 2009
WebCast: Higher Returns through Diversification
Scott Langmack discussed his personal investment strategy in Lending Club Notes that, according to him, has allowed him to average an annualized return of 12.5% on his aggregate portfolio since 2008. During this presentation and Q&A session, Scott emphasized the importance of diversification and shared his research, investment insights, and his "4 Keys to Maximizing Returns."
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October 28, 2009
Lending Club launches New Investor Experience
Lending Club continues to be a leading financial innovator. This time, we are pleased to present a completely new investor experience, giving you the tools that make it fast and easy to create diversified portfolios of Notes. In this short video, you'll learn how the new tools work.
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October 22, 2009
Unveiling the New Statistics Section
Patrick Gannon, SVP Investor Services, and Sam Kasle, Director of Investor Marketing, unveiled Lending Club's new Statistics page and covered topics such as returns by loan grade, returns by amount invested, and defaults by loan type.
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October 8, 2009
Credit and Collections at Lending Club
John Donovan, COO, and Jack Cohen, SVP Legal and Collections, shared insights on our credit and collections processes and policies and Lending Club's industry leading practices in these areas.
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