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		<title>Squirrl Launch – Secured Loans to Suppliers</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-squirrl-launch-secured-loans-to-suppliers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business loans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2511</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exclusive breaking news: In the UK Squirrl.com launches today. Squirrl provides an online finance platform for well established commercial organisations (Suppliers) that have a business model where assets are provided to their customers and paid for over a period of time through Pay for Use Agreements.  Examples are the motor industry, industrial machinery, office equipment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wokai is Closing Down</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/china-wokai-is-closing-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/china-wokai-is-closing-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wokai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microfinance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wokai, which funded microloans in China, is closing down. According to the announcement Wokai did not succeed in finding a new CEO. Read earlier articles on Wokai&#8217;s launch in 2008.
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		<title>Smava Changes Business Model; Brokers Bank Loans</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/services/smava-smava-changes-business-modell-brokers-bank-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/services/smava-smava-changes-business-modell-brokers-bank-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smava]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business model]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[German Smava, launched 2007, yesterday announced that it will offer more products and evolve into a marketplace where borrowers seeking loans get multiple offers. The site logo and layout have been redesigned to reflect this change. Smava said p2p loans will be continued to be on offer and the new products (bank loans) added will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zopa Will Offer More Loan Terms</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-zopa-will-offer-more-loan-terms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-zopa-will-offer-more-loan-terms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zopa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Zopa will add more loan term selection for borrowers starting in the second half of May. So far Zopa was offering loan terms of either 36 or 60 months. In the future there will be Shorter Markets (24 and 36 months) and Longer Markets (48 and 60 months). While borrowers can elect the exact loan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How My Appbackr Experience Failed My Expectations</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/us-how-my-appbackr-experience-failed-my-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/us-how-my-appbackr-experience-failed-my-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Offtopic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[app]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[appbackr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdfunding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Appbackr is a marketplace where everyone can crowdinvest in IPhone apps and Android apps. The way it works is that investors prefund future sales of apps. The  investor buys the copies at a lower wholesale prices and makes a profit  later, when the copies actually sell in the app store. I described the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zopa Profitable in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-zopa-profitable-in-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-zopa-profitable-in-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zopa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[P2P-Kredite.com reports that 2011 was the year in which Zopa achieved break-even and made a small profit. Zopa&#8217;s profit in 2011 was 26,143 GBP (following a loss of 392,289 GBP in 2010). Zopa&#8217;s turnover was 2.2 million GBP (approx. 3.5M US$), up from 1.7 million GBP in 2010. However the profit in 2011 is partly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding Circle Raises 10M</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-funding-circle-raises-10m/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-funding-circle-raises-10m/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[index ventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[union square ventures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[venture capital]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[British p2c lending marketplace Funding Circle announced that they have raised 10 million GBP (approx 16M US$) from Index Ventures and Union Square Ventures. Funding Circle enables individual lenders to lend to establishes businesses in the UK. Since its launch a loan volume of 28.6 million GBP has been funded. According to numbers published by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Symbid to Power Herofunding – P2P Equity for Game Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-symbid-to-power-herofunding-p2p-equity-for-game-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/uk-symbid-to-power-herofunding-p2p-equity-for-game-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdfunding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[herofunding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[p2p equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[symbid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whitelabel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dutch Symbid will power the new platform Herofunding.eu. Herofunding is a new crowd funding platform of Idea Fabrik Plc., creators  of the HeroEngine, an integrated platform for online game development  and operation. The platform is scheduled to go live in in the beginning of April 2012 and solely concentrates on the video game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prosper CEO Chris Larsen Steps Down</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/services/prosper-ceo-chris-larsen-steps-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/services/prosper-ceo-chris-larsen-steps-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Prosper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chris larsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prosper.com]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2454</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prosper.com announced today, that Prosper founder and CEO Chris Larsen moved from the role of CEO and Chairman to serve exclusively as Chairman. He will be replaced by Dawn Lepore, who previously served as CEO and chairman of Drugstore.com. Lepore will serve as  interim CEO. Larsen said:
&#8220;As Prosper continues to achieve incredible growth, now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated: State of Selected P2P Lending Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/germany-updated-state-of-selected-p2p-lending-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/countries/germany-updated-state-of-selected-p2p-lending-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wiseclerk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baltic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P2P Banking Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wiseclerk.com/group-news/?p=2449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exactly one year has passed since P2P-Banking.com published the post &#8216;State of Selected P2P Lending Companies&#8216;. Time to update the information.
This post reviews a selection of p2p lending companies  and does a rating on more factors than just loan volume. While I describe  below what factors led to my rating, please note that [...]]]></description>
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