Fri, 24 Nov 2006
The latest newsletter from Springwise,
which lists new businesses from around the world, mentions Zopa, which they describe as "eBay for
money". The concept is fairly simple.
Zopa is a place where creditworthy people who want to borrow money can get
together with people who are happy to lend it to them. And because there's no
middleman - the borrower just pays a 1% exchange fee to Zopa up front - both
get a great deal.
They pool loans together so each lender's loans are distributed among 50 or so
borrowers. Lenders can decide what type of debtors they want to lend to based
on the debtors' credit.
Zopa is only open to UK residents. I wonder how such a system would work in
the states with each state having different lending laws. It's an interesting
idea, and easier than standing outside the check cashing store looking for
customers.
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