The more enthusiastic proponents of peer-to-peer lending believe that it can distribute credit more efficiently than banks.
Promising "bread, housing and jobs", he tours poor neighbourhoods distributing credit to entrepreneurs and on-the-spot medical care.
Visa does not distribute credit or debit cards, nor does it provide credit so consumers can buy flat-screen televisions or a Starbucks latte.
Ram Singh divided up the results of the night's robberies, distributing credit and bank cards, cash and mobiles, jewellery and the shoes.
In recent years, the origins of the Internet have been subject to claims and counterclaims of precedence, and Mr. Baran was an outspoken proponent of distributing credit widely.
Visa International Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. cannot bar 34,000 member banks from distributing credit cards in the United States that were issued by two rivals, the American Express Company and Morgan Stanley, a federal appeals court said yesterday.
"I really do believe that 'interestedness' is the panacea for everything," he says, weighing each word, distributing credit equally and elegantly to all of the programme's participants, expressing himself with puckish sincerity, approaching a pizza with the doleful expression of one who knows only too well the discourteous amount of chewing it will entail.
During most of the past decade, the financial industry placed a near-religious faith in the idea that distributing credit risk (via securitization) made banking safer.
The emphasis was on learning, realized by adjusting the weights of the unit-to-unit connections in a layered neural network, typically by a back-propagation process that distributes credit or blame for a successful or unsuccessful output to the units involved in producing the output (Rumelhart and McClelland 1986).
Fast and Intertwined Regular (FAIR) highway had been proposed as a road pricing concept that distributes credits to the low-income commuters.
