The largest alternative finance conference in the world, LendIt USA 2015, took place from April 13-15 in New York. The panel for the European Online Lending Opportunity discussion was comprised of international experts, including Partel Tomberg, CEO and co-founder of Bondora. Continue reading below for an edited excerpt of the recent panel discussion.

Earlier this year the Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, in co-operation with professional services firm E&Y, released a pan-European study of the alternative finance market. The study, titled "Moving Mainstream", can be considered the most comprehensive study on the subject released to date. The researchers studied the peer-to-peer consumer lending sector (a…