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,…
POSTS FROM PAST WEEK Start investing faster with our new instant payment options Bondora is now enabling users to get in the game faster with instant payment options. Investors can use their Visa, Mastercard credit and debit cards or SOFORT service to start investing today. Transactions occur immediately allowing investors to put their money to…
Our new instant payment options means Bondora users can move at the speed of the market. Previously, making a deposit to a Bondora account sometimes required more than a day due to bank-to-bank transfer processing. Now, investors can begin investing much faster. Use a Visa, Mastercard credit and debit cards or SOFORT online payments to…
Around the world Seeking Alpha published an article from the International Monetary Fund. The authors explored the underpinnings of the fintech revolution. Many, including the IMF, see P2P lending at the fore of this sweeping change. Speed and low costs are influencing more people to embrace theses digital solutions. Crowdfund Insider reported on findings from…
Financial technology, or FinTech, is a broad term encompassing any technology designed to facilitate financial services. Individuals and businesses are both benefiting from the emergence of these digital solutions. Examples include virtual currencies, robo-advisors and of course peer-to-peer lending (P2P). While FinTech exists as an ecosystem of services and tools, peer-to-peer lending has become the…
As part of our general and personal statistics page redesigns we have updated the look and data on the Annualized Net Return on Investment graph. Our approach is to provide a more complete reading of returns and how they compare to benchmarks. Users can click the small display setting icon in the top right corner to…
POSTS FROM PAST WEEK Get better insight with our new Statistics pages We offered a brief overview of the changes we recently made to the general and personal statistics pages on the site. Our users have so far responded with enthusiasm to the new outlook that delivers lots of new information with appealing graphics and…
Last week we rolled out a major update of our General and Personal statistics pages. The update is a refreshing new look at all the most important measurements investors need to make informed decisions. Customers have embraced the new layout and charts which provide wide range current data to quickly understand the value of holdings….
Around the world Forbes published an article exploring how the marketplace lending phenomenon is spreading worldwide. Technology which enables faster decisions for borrowers and stronger returns for investors has earned appeal from the burgeoning Asian market. The author explains that “Over the last 5-10 years, China, India, and Southeast Asia have leapfrogged from a cash-based…
KEY TAKEAWAYS The average recovery performance for 2016 was 64% which outperformed the average recovery over the last three years of 51%. This difference marks an uptrend in past years success of capturing past due payments. Recoveries in Spain and Slovakia have each seen periods of increases in the past three years, although for their…
As we mentioned in our last weeks announcement, we are launching our first investor webinar on March 23, 2017, 3:00 PM EET. We want to offer new ways for our investors to stay informed on what’s happening on Bondora and in the finance industry in general. The topics that we’ll be discussing in the first…