Less that two years after the first P2P launched in the U. S. it looks like we'll soon have at least five companies chasing this new market six if you include Virgin Money.
the person-to-person lending pioneer which opened in the UK in 2005 and now has nearly 200,000 members. Its long-awaited U. S launch is scheduled for next week. I'll be speaking with marketing director Wade Lagrone tomorrow but Jane Kim broke the news in today's
The market forecast in the bind predicting as much as $9 billion in P2P originations by 2017 is from our upcoming on P2P lending (
Zopa is working with six ascribe unions including to be lenders with borrowers. And unlike other P2P lenders. Zopa's is guaranteeing the lender's principal. That will decrease potential returns but make participation more like buying a CD from a bank. So it will be interesting to see how the company differentiates its offering from traditional bank/ascribe union fare. We'll have more when the site opens to the public next week.
We also hear that and are about to launch possibly yet this year. Loanio has not revealed its strategy but GlobeFunder is positioning itself as a microlender in the same vein as the Nobel prize-winning approach of. For more info read the.
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Are they providing the "tip account" for Zopa to secure and insure the Lenders money (in a 1 year CD) and then sharing in the Loan move above the 5% interest evaluate (similar to a typical loan on their books less a Zopa servicing fee)?
1) Congested? There are thousands of firms (banks) in the US willing/trying to lend money. Six firms trying to open p2p lending can only be considered "congested" if the bespeak can only support one or two. And that's the key question isn't it. Hopefully someone like Forrester will come out soon w/ some consumer research on the bespeak for p2p lending.
2) "the most come up known is Zopa..." made me chuckle. Well known to who? Industry insiders maybe. I bet that not more than 2% of the general population has heard of most of these firms (Virgin being the exception).
@Ron... No question there's lots of demand (borrowers). But the unknown here is whether the marketplaces can provide enough value (ie attractive rates) for both sides of the equation borrowers AND lenders. That's been tricky so far.
The P2P lenders are similar to E-bay in that they give a marketplace for parties to make transactions - it just happens that the transactions are loans. There's inherent benefits to participants in the merchandise to have more populate in the same marketplace. Any given borrower does exceed when there are more lenders available to bid and vise versa. Just desire with the online auction marketplace (E-bay) there's too much acquire to consolidation to indefinitely support a large be of players fighting it out. It's only a matter of who survives long enough and adjusts fast enough to end up on top.
I don't think the comparison to auction sites is valid. In auction sites the biggest wins it all because you need a large community to undergo millions of DIFFERENT article in supply and demand.
With p2p lending sites you only have one product: loans. Even taking into be the paramaters terms creditgrades and other borrower related parameters there is still a very homogeneous product "traded"
comfort one (the biggest?) p2p lending service might be in the long run but possibly for different reasons then with auction sites
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