The Route City Wealth Club recently published an article in which it said that platform lending has been accepted into the corporate finance mainstream in many respects. It quoted stats from the latest Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance report which stated that "40% of the loans that advanced to businesses through P2P platforms were funded by institutions, including mutual and pension funds". This shows just how far the platform lending market has travelled in less than 10 years. Institutions...The post The growing importance of niche lending platforms appeared first on RainFin.