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Prosper launches group ratings, schedules user meeting

Person-to-person lender, Prosper, announced its first annual user meeting next February in San Francisco. Registration is a refundable $25 and includes an all-day session with dinner on Monday, Feb. 12, and a half-day on Tuesday, Feb. 13.

The agenda has not been published. Online signup is here.

The October newsletter (see End Notes for screenshot) also announced the arrival of the group ratings, an important milestone for the nine-month-old service. Group ratings promise to help lenders locate borrowers with better-than-expected likelihood of repayment. If it works, Prosper could become a major force in consumer lending. If it doesn't, the company will have to find another way to beat the loan default odds. 

For more information:

• For prior coverage of Prosper and its U.K. rival Zopa, look here.
• For detailed analysis of the market, see Online Banking Report #127 published in March

End Notes (click on the link below to see Prosper's Oct. newsletters)

Autumn events

There's much to choose from this fall, click on the link below to see the complete calendar of events of interest to online banking and financial services marketing professionals.

Two-for-one offer to BAI's Retail Delivery

Update: The 2-for-1 offer is no longer available through this link. However, you can still save $350 ($700 for two) before Sept. 5 — enough for a snazzy new monitor for your desktop anyway. But first, check your inbox for an Aug. 2 or 3 email from BAI with the 2-for-1 offer. You should still be able to claim it with your promo code.

If your team is headed to Las Vegas in November to take in BAI's <bai.org> bank-tech extravaganza, you better jump on this offer before Sept. 5: two admissions for the price of one (main conference only). That will save you nearly $1,700, enough to put that new plasma display in the conference room. If you are going by yourself, you'll still save $350 with this offer.

Here's the link:  http://www.bai.org/retaildelivery/

--JB

Event calendar

The latest conferences for online bankers and financial marketers.

Upcoming events

Don't forget to make time on your calendar for at least one of the two major events in online banking:

1. BAI's Retail Delivery, Nov. 14-16 in Las Vegas. This is the grandaddy of banking tech conferences, featuring a massive exhibit hall and thousands of attendees from around the world.
2. American Banker's Technology Forum, Oct. 11-13 in Silicon Valley. Although much smaller than Retail Delivery, the Tech Forum is highly focused on online banking and payments issues.

Click on the following link for the complete calendar through year-end:

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There's still time to take in a conference before the summer hiatus. Click on the link below to see the calendar for May and June.

Conference and events calendar

Major conferences and events of interest to online bankers.