Tag: finance

Collaborative Finance: By the People, For the People

I was invited to speak at World Council for Credit Unions this week on how technology is enabling a new generation of person-to –person and crowd–driven funding, lending, currency and investment services that will decentralize and democratize finance, money and banking. Think: Funding Circle, Bitcoin, Lending Club, Kickstarter, IndieGogo, Seedrs, CircleUp, GoFundMe, CurrencyFair, Transferwise, Zopa, MPesa…  Read more

Collaborative Consumption grows despite crisis in Spain

Spain is the middle of its worst and biggest financial crisis ever. Despite this gloomy scenario Q1 2013 has seen a number of invesments in collaborative consumption startups space that reinforce the trend projected by 2012 figures. Knok.com announced 500.000 euros investment weeks ago. Launched in January 2012 Knok is a Barcelona based home exchange…  Read more

Cumplo is a P2P lending platform from Chile connecting investors with borrowers

Zopa is disrupting the banking industry by letting people who have spare money lend it directly to people who want to borrow