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Christine Farnish, Chair of the UK P2P Finance Association

Enjoying the podcast? Don’t miss out on future episodes! Please hit that subscribe button on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform to stay updated with our latest content. Thank you for your support! The world’s leading industry self-regulatory body is, in my opinion, the Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) in the UK. From their establishment in 2011 the P2PFA have…

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Jed Simon, Founder & CEO of FastPay

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Jacob Haar, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Community Investment Management, on Impact Investing

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Krista Morgan, Co-Founder & CEO of P2Binvestor

Enjoying the podcast? Don’t miss out on future episodes! Please hit that subscribe button on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform to stay updated with our latest content. Thank you for your support! We haven’t discussed receivables financing much here on Lend Academy. But that is about to change as the space is starting to see a…

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James Herbert, Co-Founder & President of LendingHome

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David Johnson, CEO of First Associates

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Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder & Head of Operations at Kabbage

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Karen Mills Former Head of the SBA

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Doug Lebda, Founder & CEO of LendingTree

LendingTree is a company that is familiar to most of us. But it has only been recently that they have become an important part of the marketplace lending ecosystem. With a huge and growing appetite for borrowers LendingTree is one of the few companies that can provide just what the platforms want: borrowers at scale. For…

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Al Goldstein, Co-Founder & CEO of Avant

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