{"id":674,"date":"2015-05-08T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/?p=674"},"modified":"2015-11-13T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T19:12:29","slug":"banks-are-betting-big-on-a-startup-that-bypasses-banks-wired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Banks Are Betting Big on a Startup That Bypasses Banks | WIRED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/prosper\/'><img src='http:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/b67b7e07-859b-4845-a49a-5ae4f9841f62.jpg' class='alignleft' style='width: 100%'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FORGET ABOUT BANKS. Online peer-to-peer lending platforms have surged in popularity by connecting people who want to borrow directly with people who want to lend. And now banks want in on the action.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, San Francisco-based startup Prosper announced a new $165 million round of financing led by Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, and which included participation by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, SunTrust Banks and USAA, among others<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/prosper\/'>www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/prosper\/'><img src='http:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/b67b7e07-859b-4845-a49a-5ae4f9841f62.jpg' class='alignleft' style='width: 100%'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FORGET ABOUT BANKS. Online peer-to-peer lending platforms have surged in popularity by connecting people who want to borrow directly with people who want to lend. And now banks want in on the action.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, San Francisco-based startup Prosper announced a new $165 million round of financing led by Credit Suisse NEXT Investors, and which included participation by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, SunTrust Banks and USAA, among others<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/prosper\/'>www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wecanliveonmars.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}