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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

CommunityLend Launched: January 11th, 2010

CommunityLend has officially launched.

More on this from me tomorrow evening (Tuesday).  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 23:23.

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:  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 22:01.

Lending Money to Strangers: Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Plenty of people look at Prosper.com, Zopa and now Communitylend and say:  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 22:35.

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!  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Sun, 09/13/2009 - 20:19.

HUGE Filing About CommunityLend Posted at the Ontario Securities Commission

This is a huge sneek-peek at Communitylend's future plans of operations.  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Sun, 09/13/2009 - 18:58.

News from P2P-Banking, Emails from the AMF/BDRVM on IOUCentral & the OSC

K, Just a few interesting stories from P2P-Lending:  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 20:57.

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.  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 15:01.

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.  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 12:17.

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.  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 02:04.

Communitylend Update: Blog Started, Board of Advisors Posted + Site Update

Alrighty, so a couple of changes in the past 24 hours,  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 14:33.

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.

Submitted by Dan on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 00:33.

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:  read more »

Submitted by Dan on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 11:15.