We investigate the influence of financial and political factors on peer-to-peer (P2P) platform failures in China’s online lending market. Using a competing risk model for platform survival, we show that large platforms, platforms with listed firms as large shareholders, and platforms with...

Blockchain is a decade-old “trust machine”, and peer-to-peer (P2P) lending a decade-old alternative to banks in online platforms where lenders have limited information about borrowers. The gradual implementation of blockchain technology in P2P lending platforms facilitates safer transparent...

With each passing year the peer-to-peer lending becomes more popular. The increased numbers of users and provided loans through the P2P platforms led us to write this paper to clarify what peer-to-peer lending is and what are the benefits and the flaws of using such platforms. Are they just...

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending emerged over a decade ago and quickly evolved into a global industry. Since then, the P2P lending industry has become more complex, with increasingly diverse types of business models, each involving different risks and challenges. The Article analyzes the current state...

Peer-to-business lending refers to online platforms facilitating loans from individuals to smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We conjecture that easy-to-understand risk ratings conveyed by the platform play a pronounced role in influencing the borrowing success of SMEs and that more...

We investigate the impact of peer-to-peer lending on the small business loans originated by US depository institutions that are subject to the Community Reinvestment Act. We present a model where a borrower can choose between a traditional bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry...

Peer-to-peer finance has received increasing attention over the last years, not only because of its disruptive nature and its disintermediation of nearly all major banking functions, but also because of its rapid growth and expanding breadth of services. Drivers for this growth are the emergence...