Providing news and info for potential lenders and borrowers from a Canuck perspective for microloans. The void of a Prosper-type or Zopa-type service in Canada is now being filled, and we're reporting on it as it happens

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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:

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!

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 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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