peer-to-peer lending and microfinance are talked about a lot these days and lots of companies that have built lending platforms on the web have become super successful...here's one that facilitates alumni to student loans at 0% interest..
There is great potential here but how are they going to get around the regulatory challenges.<p>A similar site (which charged interest) recently shut down - <a href="http://prosperlending.blogspot.com/2009/01/fynanz-halts-p2p-lending-markets.html" rel="nofollow">http://prosperlending.blogspot.com/2009/01/fynanz-halts-p2p-...</a>