took her plan to the Small Business Administration and was directed to Accion USA, a company specializing in microloans.
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PEER TO PEER LENDING
Peer-to-peer lending is a certain breed of financial transaction (primarily lending & borrowing, though other more complicated transactions can be facilitated) which occurs directly between individuals ("peers") without the intermediation/participation of a traditional financial institution.
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they’re more willing to lend to entrepreneurs just starting up or to those with checkered credit histories.
can't find anything that gives me this kind of confidence.' Investors loan money directly in peer-to-peer, or P2P...
it also advocates for lending reform. Dorpalen described how Acorn Housing helped make Philadelphia a national...
It seems like there’s a clear market need for new types of small business financing. So let’s start a discussion.
Spanish regional bank Caja Navarra is the first bank to offer it’s own customers a p2p lending service.
name, launched a Web-based way for individuals to make small loans to small businesses in the United States.
business, too. Today, Alan and Mantsch are among the first 36 U.S. entrepreneurs who will request community microloans...
line. The average loan size to date is $2,200. At a time when jobs are scarce, these microloans help people generate...
fourth-year seminary student from Columbus, Ohio, wanted to find a way to put some of his money into microloans.
each other, or bought goats or jewelry, then sold them if they suddenly needed money. The success of microloans has...
employment. Microfinance is expanding in the U.S. through programs like Washington CASH, which provides training and...
Once seen as the future of financing for entrepreneurs, the social-networking approach has suffered from high defaults
Sites like Prosper and Lending Club must adjust to SEC oversight. For some people, the communities of small borrowers...
Prosper, a pioneer in connecting little lenders with little borrowers, will start auctioning off bank-originated loans,...
a startup out of business while at the same time taking in no revenues. Peer-to-peer lending (sometimes called...
A court in Sweden today convicted four men linked to the notorious Internet file-sharing service The Pirate Bay of...
Richard Branson bought a majority of the company. It's done about $400 million in inter-family and other 'social'...
(JCN Newswire via COMTEX) -- maneo Inc., the pioneer in social lending in Japan announced today the launch of 'G-Loan,'...
it was a personal thing. They read my profile.” Another way small-business owners are finding funding is through...
Lending Club is one of the nation’s leading social (a.k.a. peer-to-peer) lending sites. Lending Club is a place where...
504 loans Up to $12 million. The main focus is on construction, renovation, or purchase of commercial property.
Open innovation. Crowdsourcing. You hear about these ideas a lot in the management literature and business press, but...
to see the fate of peer-to-peer lending ideas in the United States, points out Kedrosky. Last year, major community...
Zopa, the social lending website that cuts out banks, lent a record 2.5m in February and is piling on new members as...
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