[avnfish]

Take a look at Qifang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qifang) which was the efforts of another LSE student to tackle the Chinese student loan market.

[nicholasdrake]

yeah i managed to find some of his stuff on youtube... seems like it was pretty marginal idea with benefits being an aggregation of software streamlining of traditional lending + some career advice + job search functionality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Ls_ZcQM80

[nicholasdrake]

thanks... very interesting. i'm going to try and figure out why they failed lol!