You can make money by lending money to strangers over the Internet. It sounds like the latest variant of Nigerian spam, but it's a legitimate new business started by an entrepreneur with an impressive ...

Peer-to-peer lender Prosper.com has offered a seven-day auction for setting interest rates on loans since the company opened for business in 2006. On Monday, the company dropped the model, saying most ...

Prosper.com, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace in the U.S., has raised $70 million led by Francisco Partners, a private equity firm with Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and Phenomen Ventures ...

Elena Patrice, a single parent in Virginia, is eager to get rid of nearly $20,000 in credit card debt that she’s rolled up since her divorce four years ago. So last month, the 38-year-old appealed to ...

SAN FRANCISCO & SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prosper Marketplace (www.prosper.com), a leading peer-to-peer lending company, today announced that it has acquired American HealthCare Lending, a ...

Prosper is the eBay of peer-to-peer lending. Borrowers create listings for their loans, describing why they need the money and the maximum interest they're willing to pay. Loans range from $1,000 to ...

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. As a peer-to-peer marketplace lender, Prosper is the first ...

When the peer-to-peer lending site Prosper.com launched in 2006, it cast itself as the place for borrowers to go if they had been turned away by a bank. It has struggled since then to live up to that ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prosper, a leading peer-to-peer lending platform connecting borrowers and investors, today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2019. Personal loan ...

Prosper, a leading peer-to-peer financing platform to invest and borrow money, today announced it has appointed Stephan Vermut as Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors. The ...