Zopa, the peer-to-peer borrowing and lending exchange, has just (re)launched its website.
No wonder that other artists have tried to channel its evergreen properties: the band may have been the definition of uncool at their peak – perma-smiling europop stars in sequinned jumpsuits – but that didn't stop their more critically adored peers from borrowing from them.
It has been forced to pay significantly more than some of its sturdier European banking peers to borrow, according to several market participants.
More generally, he explained that he and his peers all borrowed liberally from earlier art: "at a certain point everyone at Goldsmiths believed that rather than avoid taking directly, we could take from everybody..
Simon Westcott, a director of PwC's financial services practice, said: "Old favourites such as credit cards are staging something of a revival, while newer forms of borrowing such as peer-to-peer lending are starting to gain ground.
In the past few days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Libor rate, which measures the rate of lending between banks, has been at eye-wateringly high levels, as banks have been chary of borrowing money from peers that could possibly default.
Finally, before she became the unwitting master of the portmanteau, Sarah Palin was accused of borrowing heavily from conservative peers like Newt Gingrich.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is now greenlighting Prosper to facilitate peer-to-peer lending in 14 states with more on the way, borrowing nearly nationwide.
7. Check out peer-to-peer lending If you're anti-banks you might want to borrow from a peer-to-peer lender such as Zopa.
The paper is always torn, the eyes always peer out from within borrowed shapes.
Whereas KKR and its peers were once at the forefront of finance's most exciting deals, borrowing vast amounts to seize control of underperforming companies in hard-fought takeover battles, they often now merely extend loans to such businesses.
