Blogs
CommunityLend Launched: January 11th, 2010
CommunityLend Further Prepares to Launch, Peer to Peer Canada & Not Being an Accredited Investor :(
CommunityLend Indeed to Launch Sometime
What is Microlending?
Microlending is, in a nutshell, the lending of very small amounts.
Microlending and Microlending are both forms of Microfinance ;)
Personally, I don't restrict this to mean that the borrower is receiving a small amount, but the source of their loans is many parties.
For example:
Lending Money to Strangers: Good Idea or Bad Idea?
Plenty of people look at Prosper.com, Zopa and now Communitylend and say:
CommunityLend, Lending and Being/Becoming an Accredited Investor
Basically, the government tries to protect you from doing what you want, because in theory, that could be bad, but in reality, probably isn't. Don't take any of this as legal advice!
CommunityLend Person-To-Person Lending Preview Details! Canadian Prosper.com on its way!
CommunityLend Launching Soon? Maybe!
HUGE Filing About CommunityLend Posted at the Ontario Securities Commission
This is a huge sneek-peek at Communitylend's future plans of operations.
News from P2P-Banking, Emails from the AMF/BDRVM on IOUCentral & the OSC
K, Just a few interesting stories from P2P-Lending:
All Is Too Quiet On The Canadian (Regulatory) Front - An UnUpdate of P2P Lending
Interesting CommunityLend Blog Discussions
Colektivo, Prosper, Zopa, Communitylend & IOU Central
A bit slow on the Canadian P2P Front, but here's an update with what I've found & been following.
Open Call for IOU Central Feedback
I just wanted to send out a request for anyone with funds in their accounts or perhaps active loans/borrows on IOU Central to please comment here with how everything is going.
Remember That IOU Central Clone I Was Talking About?
Well, looks like it has launched at http://www.ivorexinc.com. Looks like it is the clone site that I was talking about. Not even all of the aspects of IOU Central have been changed, such as references and the Youtube video.
Communitylend Update: Blog Started, Board of Advisors Posted + Site Update
Alrighty, so a couple of changes in the past 24 hours,
CommunityLend Blog Now Up
Take a looksie: http://blog.communitylend.com/
A couple photos at their Flickr page.
I'll post more tomorrow, time for sleep now.
Interesting Quote on Communitylend Site
I'm not sure if they did a small update to their site or not (for some reason, things look a bit updated to me, but I still don't see a board of advisors posted), but here is a funny quote from their borrow site:
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