Peer-to-peer lending: online matchmaker for your funds

Peer-to-peer lending: online matchmaker for your funds
If you fancy you can do a better job of lending money than the ill-fated Anglo Irish Bank, you might want to consider peer-to-peer lending, where you lend your hard-earned savings instead of putting them on deposit, with the promise of returns of as …
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Spotify Removes Peer-To-Peer Technology From Its Desktop Client
Music streaming startup Spotify is shutting down its peer-to-peer network that powered a significant part of the service in the desktop app. According to TorrentFreak, the company doesn't need to use peer-to-peer anymore as it has enough servers spread …
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Peer-to-Peer Lending UK Facts and Figures
Peer-to-Peer Lending UK facts and figures 2013 a new independent report – from a writer/ researcher/ economist specializing in new financial ideas, explains UK peer to peer lending in ways any intelligent non-specialist can understand. Author Ian …
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Banks' personal loans and credit card business in the sights of peer-to-peer
Harmoney is one of the companies intending to apply to the Financial Markets Authority (FMA) for a peer-to-peer lending licence. Neil Roberts, Harmoney's CEO and controlling shareholder, told interest.co.nz in a Double Shot interview banks can't …
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