P2P lenders have sprung up in recent years online. Zopa in the UK pioneered the model, and has raised significant funding. And the P2P finance model has even spread to insurance. Now the model is ...

Online digital entertainment distributor Altnet has confirmed plans to share revenue generated by advertising on popular peer-to-peer applications with independent music labels. The independent label ...

Business owners are understandably reluctant to allow employees, contractors and freelancers take the company credit card. But asking them to use a personal card raises other issues, such as scanning ...

When it comes to lending, P2P--for peer-to-peer--providers like Lending Club are now complementing, if not challenging, traditional banks by using social technology to bring together those who wish to ...

After Beepi shut down its service and transferred its operations to stealth Fair.com, its closest competitor Shift is facing some downsizing, too — a measure of the challenges of the peer-to-peer car ...

Once hailed as the “next generation of financing,” peer-to-peer finance is going the way of the dodo bird as loans are defaulted on and investors rethink the fundamental viability of the business ...

The Chinese dream of obtaining funding freely and easily has come up against harsh reality in the peer to peer (P2P) lending industry. Although P2P company Renrendai announced in January that its ...