Sentence examples for social lending from inspiring English sources

The site, "a marketplace for social lending", links borrowers and lenders.

With this bleak backdrop, "social lending" or "peer-to-peer lending" (P2P if you're hip) might be the Facebook generation's answer to the crisis.

It's basically matchmaking for money (or "social lending", of you prefer) and earned the site a Webby last month for best banking site.

The key is to regulate for a mixed economy of banking; to build on the networks, and self-help groups to create a true social lending sector; for the state to foster non-profit banks.

One example is Zone of Possible Agreement (Zopa), a social lending network that cuts out the middle-man – the bank – and puts lenders and borrowers directly in touch with each other.

He was immediately struck by the high repayment rates (less than 5% of loans by Yunus' Grameen Bank result in defaults), as well as by the social lending approach on which microfinance is based.

But rather than wait for the Federal Reserve's maneuvers to get things flowing again, antsy borrowers are asking their neighbors for a little help online, thanks to a rash of so-called social- lending Web sites.

Social-lending sites come in different flavors.

The first social-lending sites appeared in 2005, bringing scale to the age-old idea of borrowing from friends.

Goldman Sachs is making its second foray into an experimental method of financing social services, lending up to $4.6 million for a childhood education program in Salt Lake City.

Many presumed that the trust existed solely to perpetuate Mr. Hershey's grand social experiment, lending an air of disbelief that the trust could ultimately be the one to unravel one of the nation's last surviving company towns.