Despite enormous potential to use web technology at the front-end of retail banking and the advent of mature respective development methodologies, the degree of web technology use in this banking sector is still low. In particular, this applies to lending which is the core of banking. In this paper we argue that there is a gap between the available conceptual means for employing web technology ...

In pursuing the current housing policies, the government continues to focus on the needs of socially vulnerable people, making the new emphasis on resolving the housing problems of the bulk of working people who have middle income, savings, and homes in ownership after free privatization. The principal solution for these people is long-term mortgage lending, and this Concept reviews the possibi...

Recently, several platforms for arranging credit mediation between borrowers and lenders without usage of a financial intermediary have emerged. Social lending has attracted the interest of researchers who analyzed the behavior of borrowers and lenders on these platforms. The authors examine the impact of pre-made text modules and usage of peer groups on the funding success of a credit request....

With the rise of microfinance in developing countries and its evolution to a business model in developed nations, microfinance has fully transitioned to the internet, taking the distinctive form of social lending. However, the marketing trends of emerging peer-to-peer micro-lending websites have been largely unexplored during its rise to recognition due to most studies focusing on financial, ec...

The traditional spatial data models model space in terms of points, lines, and regions. These models employ a disjoint dimension model in which a spatial object can only consist of a zero, one, or twodimensional point set. However, such models cannot adequately represent spatial reality. For example, consider a river network that contains both rivers and lakes. Intuitively, this river network i...

We analyze a standard environment of adverse selection in credit markets. In our environment, entrepreneurs who are privately informed about the quality of their projects need to borrow in order to invest. Conventional wisdom says that, in this class of economies, the competitive equilibrium is typically inefficient. We show that this conventional wisdom rests on one implicit assumption: entrep...

This version: May, 2008 Abstract We construct a model of the credit market where lenders use two incentive devices, monitoring and termination, to enforce truth-telling and effort-making. The economy’s aggregate activity and its equilibrium lending mechanism are determined jointly and endogenously. We analyze how changes in the model’s exogenous variables, including the returns of the economy’s...

This article provides an overview of two core issues related to subprime market growth and predatory lending. Two general issues were addressed. First, the rapid growth of subprime lending in minority neighborhoods has raised questions concerning the absence of prime conventional lenders in these neighborhoods. There is evidence that more competition by prime lenders could lower the borrowing c...

Contents 1 Abstract 2 2 Introduction 2 2. 1 Abstract We develop models to price long term loans in the securities lending business. These longer horizon deals can be viewed as contracts with optionality embedded in them and can be priced using established methods from derivatives theory, becoming to our limited knowledge, the first application that can lead to greater synergies between the oper...