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Peer-to-peer lending, also abbreviated as P2P lending, is the practice of lending money to individuals or businesses through online services that match lenders with borrowers. Peer-to-peer lending companies often offer their services online, and attempt to operate with lower overhead and provide their services more cheaply than traditional ...
LendingCrowd is an online peer-to-peer lending company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.As the first Scottish based crowdlending firm, LendingCrowd has created a platform that enables investors to support small and medium-sized businesses by lending personal capital through small loans whilst earning a monthly interest payment.
In 2011, Kiva launched Kiva U.S., a 0% interest peer-to-peer lending pilot program for entrepreneurs in the United States, as part of efforts to "cut lending costs through technology". [32] The loans posted to Kiva U.S. are often from borrowers who have been rejected for loans by traditional banking institutions, but on Kiva U.S. they do not ...
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P2P lending is a monetary arrangement between two individuals without the intervention of any mediator, thus removing the expenses made to the financial institutions. Lenders who want to make higher returns from their surplus funds lend to borrowers seeking low-cost and quick unsecured loans.
Non-bank lending grew at its fastest rate since 2008 in the year to October 2013, with over £10.5bn of credit arranged through peer-to-peer lending, invoice discounting, asset finance and leasing. [15] Rebuildingsociety.com passed the £1m of lending mark in October 2013 [16]
Industry associations self-regulated the P2P lending sector, and there was the possibility of regulation by credit rating agencies (CRAs) specializing in P2P lending. “For example, the National Internet Finance Association (NIFA) was established to ensure transparency and the disclosure duty of the Internet finance industry, including P2P ...