How online marketplace lenders are changing the rules of small business finance

September 4, 2015

Over the past two to three years, online marketplace lending OML - also called alternative lending - has made dramatic changes in the landscape of small business lending. In this paper, the first in a series of eight articles, Experian experts discuss this exploding fin-tech-driven market from several angles. Disruptive technology has radically changed how we shop, socialize, book vacation rentals - and even how we hail a cab. Now we have another Webbased disrupter upending yet one more venerable American institution: how we secure small-business loans.

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