Peer-to-Peer Lending Is An Old Concept But Recently Became Famous
A disruption in any industry is always met with distrust, if not utter opposition. That’s what happened when Peer-to-Peer lending came onto the scene of the lending marketplace. Initially, people would take it with a pinch of salt and often attribute it to something shady or a niche market. Only after the fall of Wall Street in 2008 did investors and borrowers lose their confidence in the traditional banking sector. Soon they came like a herd of galloping cattle coming to the water pond. Since inflation drew the wedge in running a successful business, SMEs searched for out-of-the-box finance options. That’s how P2P became an alternative lending option available to borrowers in the UK and worldwide. But that’s not the whole story. We are going to break down the milestones of the P2P lending concept and try to expand on its current popularity in this article. A Brief History of Peer-to-Peer Exchange of Value: P2P lending seems like a new thing, but the basic concept is old. We can