Bio

Peter Renton is the founder of Lend Academy, the leading news and educational resource for the marketplace lending industry. He has been writing about this industry since 2010 and he is the author and creator of the Lend Academy Podcast, the first and most popular podcast on lending and fintech innovation. He is considered one of the world’s leading experts on marketplace lending and speaks regularly on the topic at industry conferences. He is the co-founder of the LendIt Conference, the world’s first and largest conference series dedicated to the fintech and online lending industries. LendIt conducts three conferences a year: in the USA, Europe and China. He is also a co- founder at NSR Invest, an investment and analytics platform that provides access to P2P lending marketplaces for financial advisors, institutional investors, and individuals. Peter Renton has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York Times, CNBC, CNN, Fortune, NPR, Fox Business News, the Financial Times and dozens of finance blogs and smaller publications. Previously, he has started and sold two companies in the label printing industry, including Lightning Labels which was the first all-digital label printer in the U.S. This company was sold to a public company in 2008.