Excellent Debate on P2P Lending across Blogs


If you are interested, there is an excellent debate on P2P Lending going on over a few blogs now. The general theme is whether P2P Lending (otherwise known as Social Lending) will make a difference to Banks. It began here with this post at Zopa. The problem is that unlike so many other far healthier industries, the banks have no effective competition. Microsoft is kept in check by Apple and increasingly Google. Warner, EMI and Sony are battling it out with the digital download phenomena. Tesco has to watch out for Sainsburys, M&S and Waitrose. Even the BBC has to … Continue reading Excellent Debate on P2P Lending across Blogs

Question for Zopa | is that 10K registered or 10K real customers?


Zopa are reporting 10,000 members in their US service. At first I was highly impressed and pleasantly surprised, however on reflection, I now question this number. Is it: registered members with investments or loans at Zopa? (lower but a ‘real’ number) registered users of the site (always a higher number) Both numbers have importance, but the Finextra press release is written to suggest that the 10k number relates to 1. but I am betting now that it relates to 2. I can’t locate this info on Zopa’s blog, something I also find odd … so am posting here. Anyone from … Continue reading Question for Zopa | is that 10K registered or 10K real customers?