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Win Cash! $2,500 Lending Club Giveaway For New Investors

September 6, 2009 by Silicon Valley Blogger

My recent article on peer to peer lending mentions that Lending Club is quickly approaching a milestone — they’re about to obtain their 25,000th registered investor! And to mark this momentous occasion, Lending Club is holding a promotion to give away $2,500 to a lucky investor, who’ll happen to be that 25,000th member. So how does this work?

$2,500 Lending Club Cash Giveaway Details

To join the giveaway, you should be looking to invest in notes through the Lending Club network. If you’re not familiar with this process, you can check out my Lending Club review for more information. The contest itself is simple — here’s all you need to do:

1. Qualify for the cash giveaway by signing up for a free Lending Club investing account. You will need to complete the full registration process which includes creating your password, verifying and confirming your identity and entering your bank information. You’ll need to link your bank account to your Lending Club account to facilitate transactions.

2. There’s no need to purchase anything.

3. The winner will be revealed after October 31.

Lending Club Investor Requirements

So what can you expect from your Lending Club investments? Here are some more tidbits about becoming a lender at this network:

1. The annual rate of return for investors is over 9.6%. That’s a pretty sweet return relative to a lot of investments we’re seeing today. Just take a look at this chart!

2. Lending default rates are quite low. Check this graphic for historical default rates at Lending Club — as you can see Grade A loans (the most conservative loans) have an average 12 month default rate of only 0.47%. In fact lately, they’ve reported that there have been no defaults for the most conservative investments.

3. To invest, you can make deposits by using Paypal, ACH, checks or via wire.

4. Only investors from certain states can participate at this time. Qualified states: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HA, ID, IL, LA, ME, MN, MS, MO, NH, NV ,RI, NY, SC, SD, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV and WY.

5. The minimum investment is only $25.

6. Your investments are in fixed income notes with 3 year terms.

7. There’s a low service charge of 1% taken from earnings you receive from borrowers, but your annual returns will be impacted by less than this amount based on the way Lending Club makes calculations.

8. Loans can be traded (bought and sold) via a Note Trading Platform that’s operated under FOLIOfn. There are some limitations as to who can use this trading platform and there’s a 1% trading cost for doing trades.

So if you’re in, you can find out more details here. Note that all investments always carry risks, so make sure you review as much information about this as you can before you delve in!

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