Case Name :      Lending Loop: FinTech Disruption in Canadian Banking

Authors :           Jean-Philippe Vergne, Parker Cumming

Source :              Ivey Publishing

Case ID :           9B16M085 / W16352

Discipline :        General Management

Case Length :    17 pages

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

Lending Loop, a Canadian marketplace (peer-to-peer) lending start-up, was founded in 2014 and launched to the public in 2015. It competed with other peer-to-peer lenders to challenge the Canadian chartered banks and other financial companies for part of the Canadian small-business lending market. Without an established regulatory regime in place, it operated according to its lawyers’ interpretation of securities law. The founders needed to scale their business quickly and strategically to gain a first-mover advantage in the industry and to position their company as a major stakeholder for future regulatory decisions.