Small Business Advocates, Lenders & Online Credit Marketplaces Unveil Small Business Borrowers' Bill of Rights Coalition including Accion, Aspen Institute, Fundera, Funding Circle, Lending Club, MultiFunding, Opportunity Fund & Small Business Majority announces first-ever consensus on responsible small business lending practices

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To protect Main Street from predatory lending, today a coalition of nonprofit and industry lenders, credit marketplaces, brokers, think tanks, and small business advocates launched the Small Business Borrowers' Bill of Rights at a special event in Washington DC. Karen Mills, former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the keynote speaker at the event said, "Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up. Seeing industry and other...