Online Lender Prosper Says System Error Overstated Returns
- Glitch affected majority of loan investors, spokeswoman says
- Error has been fixed, didn’t affect tax documents or cash
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Prosper Marketplace Inc., one of the largest U.S. online-lending platforms, notified the majority of the investors that buy its loans that it had overstated their annual returns due to a system error, a spokeswoman said.
The error has been fixed, according to spokeswoman Sarah Cain. Some of the investors that were affected saw their annual returns fall in half, but in most cases returns fell less than 2 percentage points, Cain said. The issue has been going for “several quarters,” she said.