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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Lending' (6)

would you lend money to your facebook friends??

I have about 220 face book friends at the moment, if they all decided to
lend me just 100 quid I would have enough cash to do quite a number of
things including re-model my kitchen, put down a year’s lease for our
new office and possibly buy about two laptops! Read more...

Added by Maggie Antonio on November 15, 2010 at 3:30am — 2 Comments

25 reasons why you should not invest in microfinance companies

I read a seething here http://microfinanceafrica.net/news/twenty-five-reasons-why-one-should-not-invest-in-micro-finance-companies/ that gives 25 reasons why microfinance companies are as unwise as buying mortgage derivatives pegged on the American home loan market! Read more...

Added by Maggie Antonio on November 2, 2010 at 3:00am — No Comments

Do IPOs work in the microfinance industry?

There have been 2 significant multi-billion dollar IPOs within the microfinance industry in the last 2 years which has given us loads of food for thought. Read more...

Added by Maggie Antonio on October 28, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Pawn your jewelry or do the smart thing and borrow online

A shocking story in this weeks UK’s newspapers is that the British public has taken to borrowing money from pawn shops and ‘payday loan shops’ to meet their daily food and grocery bills. Read more...

Added by Maggie Antonio on October 28, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Can Every Poor Person Be An Entrepreneur?

I have been pondering this question for the last few days after I came across an article that claimed that P2P micro lending was missing the point in assuming that all poor people had the capacity to be entrepreneurs and was making a case for not funding poor people until their entrepreneurial skills were justified. Read more...

Added by Maggie Antonio on October 28, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

P2P lending start-ups: easy or impossible

MyAzimia is a dynamic young start-up which is in the process of launching a P2P lending platform that we will make available for purchase by other interested entrepreneurs or microfinance organizations. Read more...

Added by Maggie Antonio on October 28, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments