lender

Etymology

From Middle English lendare, leendare, variants of lenner, lenere, equivalent to lend + -er.

noun

1. One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.
   Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend. 2013-06-01, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71