P2P Lending Provides Self-Regulation in the Credit Market, Could Help to Prevent Crisis

Since 2008, a number of changes have occurred affecting the U.S. financial industry and its regulations; simultaneously financial technology has also been evolving rapidly and market conditions have actually been a catalyst for P2P lending platforms; Forbes finds, as many market experts have recently discussed, that P2P lending platforms’ extension of credit to a more diverse range of borrowers and built in accountability through investors and lenders, is providing a new type of support for the credit market that could help to prevent another crisis in the future.  Source