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“Peer To Peer Lending”, the new loans between people on the Internet

Peer to peer is translated into Spanish as “from by to by“, so the p2p lending it is interpreted as a loan between pairs; that is, between people with the same conditions, and it is a new way of asking or to invest money.

The platforms that exist from p2p lending serve as intermediary among those who need money for a specific project and those that have money to invest it in that project, in exchange for an economic benefit.

Users who need money for a specific project they request it through the platform, which makes a profile of risk of the client and then package several viable projects in a kind of virtual portfolio. Users interested in to invest in these projects, in exchange for a gain, deposit money in that portfolio to be able to finance them.

How did the p2p lending?

Zopa was the first firm to start operating with this model in the United Kingdom, in 2005, however currently the largest intermediary of this type is Lending Club, in USA with almost 120 thousand loans for 1.5 billion dollars.

What advantage have the p2p lending?

Platforms p2p lending eliminate the role of banks which would normally be the lenders.

The main advantage is that users who request loans pay interest rates lower than they would pay in the traditional market, while the investors receive a higher performance what if they saved in others financial products.

Platforms p2p lending they keep a quota or a part of the margin of the loans.

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