UPDATE: After a second reading I think my assumption about the secondary market is incorrect… (My own hopes for such a market might have clouded my vision.) It looks like LC is just registering for a license that they think they need to continue working with “lenders”: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/08/lending-club-puts-moratorium-on-lending-activity/
I am leaving hte rest of my original post unchanged.
I received the following email from Lending Club…
Lending Club has started a process to register, with the appropriate securities authorities, promissory notes that may be offered and sold to lenders through our site in the future. Until we complete the registration process, we will not accept new lender registrations or allow new commitments from existing lenders. We will continue to service all previously funded loans during this period, and lenders will be able to access their accounts, monitor their portfolios, and withdraw available funds without changes.
The borrowing side of our site will remain generally unaffected by this registration process; borrowers can continue to apply for loans and new loans posted after April 7, 2008, will be funded and held only by Lending Club.
Until the registration process is completed, the company will undergo a quiet period and will not be able to respond to press and other inquiries about Lending Club or the registration process during that time.
Q&A:
Q1. What about money I have begun moving, but is still in transit to Lending Club?
A1.1. If you are in the process of verifying your bank account, you will be able to complete that verification but will not be able to add new funds
A1.2 If you have initiated a transfer, the funds will be displayed in your Lending Club account balance as soon as those funds are available.
A1.3 If you have uncommitted funds, you may request that Lending Club return those funds via the same method used to load the funds. For example,
• If you have initiated an ACH to add funds, these funds will be transferred into your Lending Club account but you will not be able to lend these funds out. You can go into your Lending Club account once the ACH transfer has been completed and withdraw funds back into your linked bank account..
• If you’ve wired funds into your Lending Club account and have not yet committed these funds into loans, you can send a request to support@lendingclub.com for us to wire these funds back to you at no charge.
• If you’ve sent funds by check, and have not yet committed these funds into loans, you can send a request to support@lendingclub.com for us to send you a check by mail for the same amount at no charge.Q2. What about referrals?
A2.1 The current referral program is terminated. If you have referred someone who has already signed up as a lender or a borrower, or if you have been referred by someone and have already signed up as a lender or a borrower, you will be receiving your referral payment within the next few days.Sincerely,
Patrick Gannon
Senior Vice President
Lending Club
440 N Wolfe Road
Sunnyvale CA 94085
www.lendingclub.com
You can also read about it at their blog: Lending Club Goes Quiet…
Wow! So the lenders are no longer going to fund the loans.. Any approved borrower will be funded via LendingClub itself. And my least favorite part… the referral program was terminated.
How long will this take? My best wild ass guess 7 months to 1.5 years.
I guess I will be withdrawing my funds from Lending Club until this quiet period ends… Doesn’t look like I have much choice… First transfer initiated this morning: $45 some odd dollars.
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Looks like all you will be able to buy is a CD from now on, P to P is over on lending club.
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If LendingClub is funding their own loans in house, this brings up the question, how do they decide which loans get funded ? It’s not by auction process, since there are no lenders, so how do they decide ?
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I think you’re all missing the point…
I suspect the point here is to enable people to trade their owned debts like securities. This would provide some liquidity to lenders.
IOW, if I have $50k to invest and I put it into Lending Club loans, but six months later I find a need $40k back, what can I do? Nothing, right now.
But if those loans held could be sold to others, I can pull my money out.
I think that’s the end goal… but in the interim, they have a hold on taking new deposits from lenders. To keep the borrowing side of the business open, they’re funding the loans themselves. It’s a temporary situation until registration is completed.
That’s my speculation, anyway.
@eee
maybe… but Prosper did not go into a quiet and they are registering with the SEC in order to do the same thing…
http://www.rateladder.com/2007/10/30/prosper-files-s1-with-sec/
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