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 ...

The breach was announced in September, but notices to potential victims went out in December. The company said this was due ...

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 ...

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 ...

Online person-to-person lending seemed like a terrific concept. People with a bit of available cash could have the opportunity to loan their money to folks who needed it. Without the expensive ...

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 ...