Peer-To-Peer Lending: The Future of banking

Private lenders can choose to fund or purchase entire loan. The format offers both an opportunity and a real threat for banks which currently qualify and package loans. Individulas can choose time frame, amount and rate. Top sites so far are Prosper, Zopa, Virgin...

Will the UAE suffer or prosper in the global economic slowdown? « Peter J. C...

" It is tempting therefore to conclude that the global economic slowdown is going to have no impact on the Emirates. Indeed, the oil boom should be seen largely as a beneficial phenomenon with any problems being those of success and not failure. But beneath the surface there...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Compiled by Sai.R

"Quota System: Who are the real beneficiaries? Contents 1. Quota system: Beginning of the end for IITs and IIMs Bhamy V Shenoy, Gulf Times, May 26, 2006-------------------------------------- 2. Meeting the challenge of Mandal II, Satish Deshpande & Yogendra Yadav, Hindu...

Social lending the next Web 2.0 phenomenon

"The basic idea with social lending is that when you need money, others will pool their funds together and lend them to you at x% interest rate. Prosper uses your credit score to determine your risk rate and then based on that risk rate you bid for the loan with your terms....

13 Ways to Survive a Layoff

""We feel you would be happier working for another company." "Sorry, business is falling off. We no longer need your services." "Operations are being consolidated in Mexico. The Bedrock Plant will be closed Feb. 1." Sugar-coated or not, the message is the same: You're fired!...

Can You Live Long and Prosper?

"Daniel Fish, a New York City lawyer who specializes in helping elderly clients, keeps a small collection of blank birthday cards in his desk drawer. The number 100 is on the front of each one. (Hallmark says it sells 85,000 such cards a year.) "I'm just waiting for the 105s...