Peer-to-Peer Reshaping Lending

Hiawatha Bray writes for the Boston Globe about peer-to-peer lending and how its another example of how "the Net reshapes nearly every business it touches." He reports on Zopa, Prosper, CircleLending and Lending Club - and notes that "peer-to-peer bankers face tough challenges."

James Gardner, Head of Innovation and Research in Group IT at Lloyds TSB in London, muses about personalization on his blog: "It is users themselves, everywhere else, that are deciding not only how things are personalised, but also what content should be shown in the personalised context. We can see where social finance is going when examining Mint, Wesabe and others of their ilk."