John Nester
Cottage industry thrives on bypassing banks
Submitted by loner on 19 July, 2009 - 4:15pm- Alan Lysaght
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Scott Langmack has given more than US$600,000 in unsecured loans to strangers.
"I can reliably get 12 per cent, worst case 9 per cent," said Mr Langmack, 50, a former Microsoft marketing executive who began investing in so-called peer-to-peer lending last year. "I can't find anything that gives me this kind of confidence."
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