In the last few days I am having a deeper look into the network around the German loan marketplace Smava. The concept -often also refer to as “peer to peer lending” (the German version is slightly better) – is quite interesting, because it allows anyone to invest into personal loans – an investment area that was restricted to banks before only. Around this provider a community has evolved. Here are some links to those sites which tramendously will help you when searching for good investments. Please note that most of these sites are in German as Smava is a German marketplace and is primarly targeting also to the German market: