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    Thursday, April 3, 2008 From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 3, 2008 at 10:41 am ET Every once in a while, I state a snapshot of Prosper's state lending limits to see how things are changing over time. Some states tie their lending limits to the Fed Funds rate or some ... (more) Wednesday, April 2, 2008 February Prosper Collections Report (4 clicks)
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April 2, 2008 at 1:39 pm ET This is part of my ongoing series monitoring collections efficiency (January's report for comparison). For a reminder on the methodology, I took a snapshot of all of Prosper's loans on February 1 and compared their ... (more) Tuesday, April 1, 2008 From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
April 1, 2008 at 9:58 am ET After extensive investigation, Prosperous Land can now report that Prosper is attempting to manipulate the 2008 election process. Based in liberal San Francisco and quietly supported by Nancy Pelosi herself, Prosper has employees with well ... (more) Monday, March 31, 2008 Prosper At Finovate 2008 (10 clicks)
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March 31, 2008 at 2:28 pm ET It looks like Prosper will once again be at Finnovate this year, amongst 40 young and upcoming financial startups:
Already 40 leading startups have committed to demoing their products (no PowerPoint allowed) including: Andera, Aradiom, Authentium, ... (more) Prosper Big In The UK? Who Knew? (3 clicks)
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March 31, 2008 at 10:26 am ET I found this little oops in the Warsaw Business Journal (English translation):
"In Poland, the difference between interest rates for loans and those on bank deposits is so large that [this situation] presents a great opportunity ... (more) Friday, March 28, 2008 From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 28, 2008 at 10:31 am ET A while back, I had written to encourage Prosper lenders to truly diversify their loans. It's not enough to spread your loans across different credit grades if they're all in California, for example. Such a ... (more) Thursday, March 27, 2008 From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 27, 2008 at 11:25 am ET Yeah, it's a double-post day. I just spotted this on Calculated Risk. The AP is reporting that the FDIC is staffing up for an anticipated rush of bank failures.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. wants to ... (more) What A Difference A Month Makes (4 clicks)
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March 27, 2008 at 10:14 am ET February was not Prosper's best month, with hitting a low for loan dollars originated. This shortfall was easily anticipated by the lower number of active listings (~1700) Prosper had during mid February. A fair amount ... (more) Monday, March 24, 2008 Prosper Pitching To Hedge Funds (8 clicks)
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March 24, 2008 at 10:31 pm ET I almost overlooked this little nugget. Prosper has taken to pitching it's lending platform as the perfect solution for hedge funds to get into the consumer credit market.
“Prosper is America’s largest peer-to-peer marketplace with over ... (more) Friday, March 21, 2008 Office Linkfest (5 clicks)
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March 21, 2008 at 2:35 pm ET Hello, Mike. What's happening? Uh… we have sort of a problem here. Yeah. You apparently didn't put one of the new coversheets on your Prosper linkfest reports. Mmmm. Yeah. You see, we're putting the coversheets ... (more) Tuesday, March 18, 2008 What Should My Target Prosper ROI Be? (2 clicks)
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March 18, 2008 at 11:05 pm ET With the Fed dropping interest rates like they're going out of style, it's an appropriate time to discuss what average annual return to expect from Prosper. The easiest way to look at it is to ... (more) Monday, March 17, 2008 Does Idle Cash Matter? (10 clicks)
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March 17, 2008 at 1:56 pm ET There has been constant griping about idle cash not earning interest on Prosper. I had always assumed that the effect was small and that Prosper had better things to be doing with their time. Like ... (more) Friday, March 14, 2008 Friday Fun: Gordon Bailey Quotes (2 clicks)
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March 14, 2008 at 2:01 pm ET Prosper CEO Chris Larson has been pushing the idea that Prosper combines aspects of George Bailey and Gordon Gekko to do something in the financial marketplace. What insightful quotes might we expect to hear uttered ... (more) Thursday, March 13, 2008 Final Prosper Days Roundup (6 clicks)
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March 13, 2008 at 2:34 pm ET In the final roundup of Prosper Days commentary (previous ones), LoanChimp did a 7 part recap of his Prosper Days experience. LC was notable for being the most experienced lender on the high-ROI panel, and ... (more) Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Post-Prosper Days Interview In WSJ (1 click)
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March 12, 2008 at 10:28 am ET This is the first post-Prosper Days interview I've seen with Chris Larson (which is not to say that there havn't been others, just that I havn't seen them). He's picking up several themes that were ... (more) Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Prosper's February Lending Market Survey (4 clicks)
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March 11, 2008 at 10:50 am ET Prosper has released their February lending market survey, and, once again, my great enjoyment is perusing Chris Larson's take on the marketplace:
In February 2008, the percentage of prime ... (more) Friday, March 7, 2008 Ninja Stealths Prosper, Prosper Responds (1 click)
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March 7, 2008 at 3:17 pm ET As Tom over a Prosper Lending Review has noted, a ninja has managed to spot a CSS vulnerability in Prosper's website. Prosper has provided an official reply to this:
We were contacted by this blogger about ... (more) Thursday, March 6, 2008 Simple Receipe For 100% Funded Prosper Loan (5 clicks)
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March 6, 2008 at 1:56 pm ET As I had previously observed, Prosper seems to have more lenders chasing loans than there are borrowers to take the money for some classes of loans. One such class encompasses just about anything that's inside ... (more) Wednesday, March 5, 2008 Prosperous Land Survives One Year (2 clicks)
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March 5, 2008 at 1:18 pm ET Yup, it's been a year since I got started with this whole thing. I was naive then. I'm not much better now. So, crack your favorite beverage in celebration of my unwillingness to go away ... (more) From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
March 5, 2008 at 8:15 am ET I'm hopping onto the Carnival of P2P Lending Bandwagon. This week it's hosted by The Amatureist Financial Journey
This week’s Carnival of Peer to Peer Lending is a little more intimate than the other super huge ... (more) Monday, March 3, 2008 Prosper API And XML Workie (6 clicks)
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March 3, 2008 at 10:10 pm ET So sayith the Prosper:
Dear So-And-So,
Thank you once again for your patience ... (more) Friday, February 29, 2008 From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 29, 2008 at 3:48 pm ET After a strong showing in January, Prosper's monthly loan totals have dropped to about $5.7 million. With this disappointing return, I started digging through the loan activity to find some likely culprits. I think Prosper ... (more) From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 29, 2008 at 1:12 pm ET Another e-mail showing progress in repairing bugs in the API and XML interface for developers (it's not working very well at the moment).
Dear So-and-so,
Thank you for your patience while we have been working through the ... (more) Thursday, February 28, 2008 API Problems For Prosper (8 clicks)
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February 28, 2008 at 10:29 pm ET This just appeared in my e-mail box
Dear So-And-So,
Prosper is experiencing two ... (more) From Prosperous Land - view blog entries - visit this blog
February 28, 2008 at 1:13 am ET I'm sure they meant well with the change, but Prosper's new and shiny marketplace performance user interface is ticking me off. It now takes me 5 times as long to perform a searches and iterations ... (more) Items 26 - 50 of 129
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