April 26th, 2009 (Blab Lab) Peer-to-peer lending is the oldest form of finance and it is rooted in the principles of community. Its first formal structure stretches back to 600 AD in China, but the basics of peer-to-peer lending were present in the earliest human civilizations. Banks didn’t come around until much later. (full post)
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