Value of global P2P loans 2012-2025
Peer-to-peer payments – additional information
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is a new type of “sharing economy”. P2P lending platforms help connect investors with borrowers without the bank acting as an intermediary. Between 2014 and 2015 the value of global P2P lending was expected to rise to a value seven times what it was in 2014 – from 9 billion to 64 billion U.S. dollars. By 2050 the value is expected to be close to one trillion U.S. dollars.
In the United States, 26 percent of people admitted that they used peer-to-peer payments. The value of mobile P2P payments in the U.S. amounted to around nine billion U.S. dollars in 2014 and it was predicted to increase to 86 billion U.S. dollars in 2018. Also, the number of mobile peer-to-peer payment users in the United States was predicted to increase significantly – from 53 million in 2014 to 126 million in 2020.