From ValueWalk:

Forget "you are what you eat." When it comes to your trustworthiness as as borrower, you are who you know... online.

Social networks are now being used by some lenders to evaluate whether you're likely to pay them back.

The New York Observer reports that, while this methodology is still a few years away from common use by major banks, smaller institutions such as...

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