Mylene Mangalindan reports for the Wall St. Journal on how PayPal CEO Jeff Jordan has prepared for the potential launch of a new Internet payment service by Google reportedly named Gbuy.

Prosper.com, a new online marketplace for people-to-people lending, has a new website up and available tonight.

Read about how it works and the fees charged both borrowers and lenders. And, more about the management team and investors, several of whom were involved in the early days of eBay and ELOAN.

Jay Speer, acting director of the Virginia Poverty Law Center, writes an op-end piece for the Daily Press in Hampton Roads, VA about the rapid growth in payday loans in that state and reform he wants to see to address the problems he sees.

Ina Steiner reports for AuctionBytes on an online payment survey of readers conducted during January.

John Harrington writes for the Helena (MT) Independent Record about the Helena, Montana branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Ted Griffith reports for the Wilmington (DE) News Journal on the history, growth and future of Bank of America following its recent acquisition of MBNA.

Frank Green writes for the San Diego Union-Tribune about how this year Visa USA is skipping the Super Bowl and focusing its advertising spending on the upcoming Winter Olympic Games.

Tom Petruno writes for the Los Angeles Times about the US economy and the addiction that both consumers and government have to debt.

Mark Kleinman reports for The Sunday Times (UK) about US private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts working to put together an offer to acquire Experian from parent GUS (Great Universal Stores).