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Online Loans a Revolution for Australian Borrowers

As a new year approaches all of us here at the Lending Hub team wish you all the best for the festive season and a prosperous New Year. We have been working hard to get Lending Hub up and running so that very soon you wil be able to join our community and visualise peer […]

Borrowing and Lending Between Family and Friends

Posted By LendingHub on December 2, 2007 No Comments » Filed under: Family and Friends, Online Loans, Social Lending

It is quite easy to turn on your family for help when it comes to family matters, personal issues or sharing with them your frustrations at work. However, when it comes to borrowing and lending money, things can take an awkward and embarrassing turn. How would you feel if a close friend or family member […]

Comparison of Online Social Lending to Microfinance: Prosper and Kiva

Posted By LendingHub on November 30, 2007 2 Comments » Filed under: Community Loans, Entrepreneurs and Business Owners, Microfinance, Online Loans, Social Lending

There are two main types of online social lending type sites that are getting some good traction in the US - there are P2P person to person sites that allow one person to lend money to another person for the purpose of earning interest and microfinance sites that allow people to lend to other people […]

Is it possible to get an online home loan in Australia?

Posted By LendingHub on November 27, 2007 7 Comments » Filed under: Banks and Financial Institutions, Home Loans, Online Loans, Social Lending

We are working on creating true online personal loans that feature a simple amortizing profile (of fixed monthly repayments) that don’t require the borrower to provide collateral (security against the loan).
Home loans are more complex products that require the asset to be mortgaged where the lender or bank will have a covenant over the asset […]

What is Social Lending: How to Borrow Online

Whether you are a small-scale business entrepreneur or if a housewife who needs funds for a home improvement project, you can start to take advantage from something that is getting all the hype in the Internet today. It is called social lending, where the concept is similar to borrowing money from friends or family. If […]

Social lending in Australia - Will it become an alternative to a bank?

As Lending Hub is preparing to launch soon (you can take a peek at lendinghub.com.au) , my first postwill be about the social lending phenomenon and whether it is likely to take off in Australia. The big four banks (CBA, NAB, Westpac and ANZ) hold large market shares in the prime borrower market and are […]