Entries Tagged as 'prosper'
by Kristin Moyer | February 5, 2009 | 16 Comments
We’ve been writing and blogging about Web 2.0 and financial social networks (FSNs) a lot over the past 12-18 months (What Banks Can Learn from the White House, Social Lending Will Challenge Bank Customer Relationships, P2P Social Lending Networks Morph Into Investment Networks). Gartner clients I’ve spoken with this week have asked that we take a step back [...]
Category: Executive Decisions Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, blogger, facebook, financial social network, fsns, igoogle widgets, lending club, linkedin, mashups, Mint, myspace, podcasts, prosper, smartypig, twitter, virginmoney, wesable, widgets, wikis, wordpress
by Kristin Moyer | January 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
Stessa Cohen and Kristin Moyer here. Financial social networks (FSNs) have been struggling of late, as evidenced by things like regulatory challenges, the exit of Zopa from the US market and others. At the same time, banks have been struggling to incorporate Web 2.0 and social computing strategies into the fabric of their business model. [...]
Category: Customer Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, fsns, lending club, Mint, p2p, p2p lending, prosper, smartypig, social computing vendors
by Kristin Moyer | November 21, 2008 | 2 Comments
Kristin Moyer and Alistair Newton here. This is what one of the media guys at our Spring Symposium told a Gartner analyst recently: “You didn’t talk about Prosper in your presentation,” he said as he took of the analyst’s microphone. He had just taken in excess of $15,000 of his savings and put it into [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, financial crisis, financial social network, fsn, p2p lending, peer-to-peer, prosper