Javelin Strategy and Research » Riverside residents recommend social lending Web sites – Annotated

tags: social lending, p2p lending, javelin, clblog

• While the sites are not yet grabbing huge chunks of business from traditional banks, Javelin projects that the demand for social lending services to pay off credit card debt could grow from $38 billion in 2007 to $159 billion by 2012.

P2P-Banking.com Blog » Cashare launches first p2p lending service in Switzerland – Annotated

tags: p2p-banking.com, social, lending, switzerland, cashare

• Swiss Cashare.ch recently launched as the first p2p lending platform in Switzerland. The company, owned by Michael Borter (link to German language interview) and Roger Mueller has partnered with the collection agency C&S Credit Management AG, which handles all monetary transactions.
  Interest rates and loan durations are set by borrowers and lenders bid in a 14 day auction (minimum bid amount is 500 CHF which is approx 500 US$). If the loan is fully funded further bids in the remaining auction period will cause the interest rate to drop in 0.1 percentage steps, while old bids are outbid).