LendIt Launches LendIt News

NEW YORK, March 6, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, LendIt, the world's largest show in lending and fintech, unveiled its new media brand, LendIt News, a financial technology 'fintech' resource dedicated to providing curated content and analysis of the most up-to-date industry news from around the globe. LendIt News, published by the LendIt team, will complement Lend Academy, the financial technology and peer-to-peer lending educational resource.

"One of the core tenets of LendIt is providing great content. Our conferences bring together the leading thinkers in fintech but that happens just three times per year," said Peter Renton, chairman and co-founder of LendIt. "News is happening every day and with LendIt News we have created a service that brings this same quality to news coverage. We will be covering all the important news stories every day, wherever in the world they happen."

"We created LendIt News after strong, repeated demand from our community for LendIt's expert opinion and commentary on the most important and relevant news stories about the fintech industry," said Jason Jones, co-founder of LendIt. "So we decided to create a daily news engine, fueled by the fast-paced news events from across our vast network of global companies, curated by our team and from our point of view. The format is also specifically designed for quick, digestible bits of the most up-to-date news impacting their businesses and respective verticals." 

LendIt News will be run by the LendIt editorial team, the same team that produces the annual LendIt conferences. Every day LendIt News will publish short summaries of all the main news stories of the day including links to the original sources. Email subscribers will receive this news in their inbox, daily in an easy to digest format.  Coverage and analysis will include:

• Online lending
• Bank partnerships
• Debt and equity investments
• Blockchain
• Insurtech
• Digital wealth management
• Digital banking
• Innovations in real estate
• Financial inclusion
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Biometrics

Coverage will span the globe with particular emphasis on the main hotbeds of fintech innovation: the USA, China and Europe.

For more information on LendIt News, please visit www.lendit.com/news.

About LendIt News

LendIt News is an online financial technology news resource aimed to provide invaluable, up to the minute insights, across Insurtech, Blockchain, payments, online lending, real estate, digital banking, wealth management and AI. Founded and published by the LendIt team, LendIt News taps experts and thought leaders to explore the latest global trends in financial technology. LendIt News...Fintech.Fast.Focused.

About LendIt

LendIt is the world's largest show in lending and fintech. LendIt is a recognized global Internet finance industry leader, founded in New York in 2013 by Jason Jones, Bo Brustkern and Peter Renton. Its aim is to gather industry elites to discuss and explore latest trends in the development of international financial technology. Our conferences bring together the leading lending platforms, investors, and service providers in our industry for unparalleled educational, networking, and business development opportunities.

LendIt hosts three conferences annually: our flagship conference LendIt USA as well as LendIt Europe in London and LangDi Fintech in China. Learn more at www.lendit.com or email swati@lendit.com for marketing and partnership inquiries.

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SOURCE LendIt