Loans platform says it will take on lenders by the end of this year. OGC portfolio company, Zopa, the UK’s first peer-to-peer lender, is aiming to reopen to new investors by the end of this year following a long-running imbalance between those who want to lend money via the platform, and those who want to borrow.
Zopa’s website offers annualised projected returns of up to 4.5 per cent to those prepared to lend money to individuals via its platform for five years. However, high demand meant Zopa stopped taking new client money last December. After re-opening temporarily, it stopped again in March, and started a waiting list which has details of 15,000 potential investors waiting to lend. Andrew Lawson, Zopa’s chief product officer, said the company was growing its book of new loans at 50 per cent year-on-year but was finding it harder to lure appropriate borrowers due to declining credit quality and fierce competition among peer-to peer lenders and high street banks.
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