Welcome to our monthly stats post for March. This is your dose of insights into our growth and performance. It’s all the numbers, updates, and statistics you want to see in a brief but informative read. Grab your coffee, and let’s dive into Bondora Group’s March news and statistics. New Investors In March, 2,077 people…
Today, we introduce you to Pille Lamp, our 40th Bondorian in the Spotlight. She speaks 8 languages, loves cats and nature, and will conquer linguistic bugs wherever she goes. Read on to learn more about the intricacies of her daily tasks, what she loves most about working in marketing, and how she’s embraced being our…
Welcome to our 2024 Q&A with Pärtel Tomberg, the CEO and Co-founder of Bondora. Thank you for your interest and for sending in all your questions. Pärtel answered the most-asked ones. In this video, Pärtel talks about our plans to improve the current investor experience, his 5-year vision for Bondora, how we are building trust,…
1) Multilingual blog You may have already noticed that our blog is now available in 3 languages; English, German and Estonian. This was implemented after we received feedback from our investors that they would like to read our blog in their own native language. Along with this, we are still working on converting the full…
One of the importance of subscribing to our email updates is so you can keep up to date with your account and the platform in general without having to login. Apart from this, you can customize your email preferences and basically decide which of the emails you want to be receiving e.g. your daily summary,…
Mortgages. The word itself comes from the French ‘Mort-gage’, which literally translates to ‘death-pledge’. On a lighter note, having a mortgage has for many decades been viewed as the first step into the adult world for many people as you move away from your family home or rented accommodation. While a mortgage is not for…
We’re going to make a prediction that the majority of people reading this have no more than 2 sources of income, namely from employment and your investment portfolio. Have you ever considered yourself as an entrepreneur? The English Oxford dictionary defines an entrepreneur as “A person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on…
Peer-to-Peer lending (or P2P), is a relatively new asset class in the world of finance that has gained traction within the last decade. Most recently, the past 5 years have seen an explosion of p2p lending platforms offering different investment options, rates of return, business models and the assets they invest. As the baby of…
Verifying your bank account details is one of the requirements for making withdrawals on your Bondora account and this video explains how you can easily do that. Deposits made via VISA/Mastercard, Sofort, Transferwise or Trustly does not guarantee bank account verification because we do not automatically receive bank account details from these payment providers. So…
Welcome to our monthly blog post discussing the cash recovered in each stage of the collection process. We have tried to assign all recovery payments to a specific stage that was set closest to the payment date. While this approach is not always correct in the case where recovery stages are not promptly updated, it…
Welcome to the third post in our monthly overview of the recovery stages. Here, we’ll show you exactly how many loans are in each stage of the recovery process and we will compare how it has changed from month to month. While we have tried to assign all loans to a specific stage as of…
Welcome to our monthly blog post on the performance of recoveries. Below, we take a look at the percentage of principal and interest retrieved between 2014 – 2017. Why is 2017 showing the lowest recovery rate? On first glance, this may appear to show that the success of our recoveries process has slightly decreased since…
In 2017, one of the hottest topics in the investing world was that of Cryptocurrency, more specifically, Bitcoin. What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is the first example of money known as a Cryptocurrency, it’s a form of a ‘digital’ or ‘virtual’ currency that is created and held electronically through distributed ledger technology. It’s different to conventional…