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A new financial system, for the people

By Staff Reports | February 4, 2013

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Over the past four years we've been let down by our banks. A better system would be a democratic finance model, thinks British anthropologist Bruce Davis. After developing peer-lending platform Zopa, Bruce teamed up with renewable energy expert Karl Harder to launch Abundance Generation in the U.K. earlier in 2012. The idea was to go one step further than just lending, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: finance, peer-to-peer lending, United Kingdom, Wall Street

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