Archive for March, 2008

Loan auction site closes temporarily

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Canada’s first auction website for borrowers to ask for loans from investors has run afoul of securities law.
Montreal’s IOU Central Inc. launched its lending site early in February, modelled on similar peer-to-peer or person-to-person lending websites in the United States and Europe.
President Philippe Marleau told the Toronto Star at the time “there is no watchdog [...]