Social lending is a new and exciting method for students to borrow Private loan funding for their education without relying on a traditional financial institution as the middleman. This new form of borrowing and lending has emerged from the revamped and reenergized sense of community ushered in by the Internet. In social lending, you’re borrowing money from real people, not from cold, abstract entities to whom you represent nothing more than a compilation of credit scores and asset values. Rather, social lending platforms enable you to use the Internet to share your story, to argue your case. In many instances, you may share this information with family/friends or a lender may review your story and decide to lend to you. And, when the right lender finally arrives, social lending enables you to streamline the financial transaction process with that lender.
With its groundbreaking Human Capital Score™, People Capital is rapidly advancing the lending and borrowing potential of social lending. Unlike other social or peer-to-peer lending platforms, People Capital does not base its borrower eligibility on credit scores alone. The Human Capital Score takes into account an array of data factors—grade point averages, standardized test scores, choice of college or graduate school, even choice of major or area of specialization—to produce a holistic credit risk assessment for each individual borrower. These data allow the People Capital lending platform to help a borrower find his or her appropriate lender (and vice-versa).
Social lending becomes a highly attractive option during tight credit crunch periods, when banks and other traditional financial institutions begin to tighten their credit flows, discontinue product offerings, and strengthen their credit criteria. Because of actions like these borderline borrowers (based upon traditional credit risk metrics, such as FICO scores) are often lost in the shuffle and do not qualify. In the Internet age, however, community resources are not so easily exhausted. Even in harder times, borrowers can still find tailored loan products at reasonable interest rates to help them finance their education. Many times these rates are considerably lower than credit card interest rates.
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