Small and medium-sized companies have trouble raising money and that’s a problem, since they account for a large part of the global economy. If there was a way to make it easier for them to get cash, everyone would benefit.Peer-to-peer lending could be one answer. P2P lending, as it is known, matches investors with individuals and companies looking for funds. It’s an internet-based process that is part of a booming field called financial technology, or fintech for short.Read the transcripthttps://bit.ly/2YljVzHRead the working paperhttps://bit.ly/2Yn5U4EAbout the authorsNaoko Nemoto is a financial economist at the ADBI.David Storey is a graduate student of economics at the University of Warwick and former research associate at ADBI.Bihong Huang is a research fellow at ADBI.Know more about ADBI’s workhttps://bit.ly/2Y8aQuYhttps://bit.ly/32R3FpF