Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche told The Kansas City Star the peer-to-peer lending industry is being aided by something of a perfect storm in the consumer finance industry.
“On the borrower side, banks are tightening the money supply,” he said. “On the lender side, the stock market isn’t performing well.”
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