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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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Why this entrepreneur stands outmore

took her plan to the Small Business Administration and was directed to Accion USA, a company specializing in microloans.

5 Alternative Sources of Fundingmore

they’re more willing to lend to entrepreneurs just starting up or to those with checkered credit histories.

Peer-to-peer lending lures clients, investorsmore

can't find anything that gives me this kind of confidence.' Investors loan money directly in peer-to-peer, or P2P...

Q & A with Acorn Housing Corp.'s Bruce Dorpalenmore

it also advocates for lending reform. Dorpalen described how Acorn Housing helped make Philadelphia a national...

What's the future of small business credit?more

It seems like there’s a clear market need for new types of small business financing. So let’s start a discussion.

P2P-Banking.com » Caja Navarra Introduces P2P Lending Service CANmore

Spanish regional bank Caja Navarra is the first bank to offer it’s own customers a p2p lending service.

Cassidy: Microlending taking off in U.S., toomore

name, launched a Web-based way for individuals to make small loans to small businesses in the United States.

Microfinance site Kiva tests loans to to U.S. small businessesmore

business, too. Today, Alan and Mantsch are among the first 36 U.S. entrepreneurs who will request community microloans...

Grameen America Launches Branch in Omaha, Nebraskamore

line. The average loan size to date is $2,200. At a time when jobs are scarce, these microloans help people generate...

Microfinance Site Links Investors, Poor Borrowersmore

fourth-year seminary student from Columbus, Ohio, wanted to find a way to put some of his money into microloans.

Microloans: Saving Money to Save Livesmore

each other, or bought goats or jewelry, then sold them if they suddenly needed money. The success of microloans has...

Microfinance draws mega interestmore

employment. Microfinance is expanding in the U.S. through programs like Washington CASH, which provides training and...

Peer-to-Peer Lending Painmore

Once seen as the future of financing for entrepreneurs, the social-networking approach has suffered from high defaults

Peer-to-Peer Lending: Problems and Promisemore

Sites like Prosper and Lending Club must adjust to SEC oversight. For some people, the communities of small borrowers...

Peer-to-Peer Lending for Banks, Too?more

Prosper, a pioneer in connecting little lenders with little borrowers, will start auctioning off bank-originated loans,...

Lend to a friendmore

a startup out of business while at the same time taking in no revenues. Peer-to-peer lending (sometimes called...

Court Says File-Sharing Site Violated Copyrightmore

A court in Sweden today convicted four men linked to the notorious Internet file-sharing service The Pirate Bay of...

Does a Family Loan Make Sense for You?more

Richard Branson bought a majority of the company. It's done about $400 million in inter-family and other 'social'...

maneo Introduces Japan's First Guaranteed Social Lending Service, &quo...more

(JCN Newswire via COMTEX) -- maneo Inc., the pioneer in social lending in Japan announced today the launch of 'G-Loan,'...

Finding funding in a tight credit marketmore

it was a personal thing. They read my profile.” Another way small-business owners are finding funding is through...

Lending Club Reviewmore

Lending Club is one of the nation’s leading social (a.k.a. peer-to-peer) lending sites. Lending Club is a place where...

A Primer on Changes to SBA-backed Loansmore

504 loans Up to $12 million. The main focus is on construction, renovation, or purchase of commercial property.

Peer-to-Patent: A System for Increasing Transparencymore

Open innovation. Crowdsourcing. You hear about these ideas a lot in the management literature and business press, but...

Open Source Hardware Hackers Start P2P Bankmore

to see the fate of peer-to-peer lending ideas in the United States, points out Kedrosky. Last year, major community...

Bank Troubles Help Social Lender Zopamore

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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