P2P equity site Crowdcube is a winner in the Smarta Top 100 Award 2011. The Smarta 100 is “a celebration of the most resourceful, original, exciting and disruptive small businesses in the UK“. Crowdcube has been selected in Top 5 for “Innovation”. Users can still vote for their favourite company on the Smarta site.
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Growth and other Recent News in P2P Lending
Zopa has announced that it reached the milestone of 150 million GBP in loans facilitated. Zopa says the new loan volume per month accounts for between 1% and 2% of new personal loan volume made in the UK.
P2P lending service Lending Club announced yesterday that it has been selected as a World Economic Forum 2012 Technology Pioneer. Lending Club was selected from amongst hundreds of applicants from around the world that hold the promise of significantly impacting the way business and society operate.
Both Lending Club and Prosper did continue their growth of monthly loan volume origination in August (Sociallending.net has charts and company comments).
Zopa wins webby
Congratulations to Zopa.com for winning a webby in the category banking and bill paying. (Source: Zopa blog)