Lending Club announced today a new self-directed IRA product.

This is great news for folks like myself who are both self-employed and fans of P2P lending.

If you want to start an account for the 2008 tax year, you need to be enrolled and have funded your account by April 15th. The account goes by “real postal mail” not electronically, so hop to your research right away.

You can read more at the article I posted to Prosper Lending Review, where I’m a guest writer.