The Observer asks if Peer to Peer is the future of finance.

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For a fuller discussion of the role P2P (and people power more generally) has to play in finance, check out Zopa co founder Simon Deane John's Lipstick on a Pig.

And for an assessment of some of the same issues in a US context, then look no further than entrepreneur Carol Realini's BankRUPT.