In this report, we survey the policy framework for P2P finance to assess its long-term impact on the residential-mortgage market. We believe that, over time, P2P will morph from the freestanding, free-wheeling social-media sites now soaking up all the innovation oxygen and become origination channels for more traditional securitizers who will then move the money to the GSEs, Ginnie, and new-style PLS.

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