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đź”´2024 Q&A Video with Bondora CEO

Bondora News

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,…

✨ New and Revamped Monthly Stats

Stats & Data

Welcome to Bondora’s revamped monthly recap! This is your monthly dose of insights into our growth and performance. It’s all the numbers and statistics you want to see in a brief but informative read. Grab your coffee, and let’s dive into Bondora Group’s January and February statistics. New investors First, we want to welcome all…

5 Easy Ways to Spring Clean Your Finances

Financial Well-being

As spring approaches, it’s not just our homes that could benefit from a spring clean – our finances could, too! Just as we clear out clutter and dust from our living spaces, tidying up financial habits can lead to a healthier financial future. So, here are 5 easy ways to use your spring renewal mindset…

Forward looking return calculation

Bondora News

The most important number for most investors is the yield to maturity. This number represents the average annualized net return of your portfolio. The value assumes that you keep the portfolio until it matures and no new investments are made. This information is found on the “Net Return” button on the “Dashboard” page. The first…

Monthly origination summary for October 2016

Stats & Data

Loan originations totaling €2,445,710 in October were helped by Finland which had a 24% growth over last month in both amount and interest rate. Below we’ve listed the detail of originations by country and rating for the entirety of October 2016. Loan origination by country Estonia continues to represent the largest proportion of originations at…

VIDEO: Weekly summary from Bondora

Bondora News

WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA Managing risk with filtered investments view Yesterday we discussed how users can manage their investments using the filtering feature. Those with capital spread over numerous loans can filter loans based on a particular metric. This provides a consolidated review of loans that may be past due. This is an important feature…

Managing risk with filtered investments view

Bondora News

Some Bondora investors leverage higher interest rates of riskier loans to achieve a more aggressive return. However, in the pursuit of a better ROI how does the savvy investor manage this risk? The filtering feature in the “Investments” page offers solutions. Bondora has always outpaced the competition with transparency and usability of data. The filtering…

Weekly industry news roundup – October 31, 2016

Financial Well-being

AROUND THE WORLD On Thursday of last week Inside ARM reported on a recent FTC Forum titled, Peer-to-Peer Payments – Their Emergence and Path Ahead. Those among the panel all “…agreed that the consumer’s cost to use these payment systems was a significant benefit.” It was also reported that many members identified the speed of…

Upcoming developments to optimize the investor experience

Bondora News

For the past months we have been working on splitting the business and product into two separate parts. One business is designed to serve the investor exclusively. The other serves only the borrower. Why are we splitting the system? The decision to divide the system was triggered by legal changes but is now rooted in…

Understanding the detailed borrower and loan data on Bondora

Bondora News

Investors using Bondora have access to incredible amounts of information on borrowers and loans. The user interface displays the important information about the borrowers responsible for making repayments. In this post we’ll provide a brief overview of the borrower/loan data in “Investments” and “Secondary Market” pages and how to use this information to better understand…

VIDEO: Weekly summary from Bondora

Bondora News

WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA Bondora portfolio performance – October 2016 In our portfolio performance post we covered the realized net returns across countries and credit rankings. The HR rating in Estonia has yielded the strongest return across all markets and countries with 31.60%. We looked closer at Spain which leads the countries in cumulative realized…

Bondora portfolio performance – October 2016

Stats & Data

KEY TAKEAWAYS The total realized net returns in Q2 of 2016 exceeded the metric in all four quarters of 2015. The realized net return of Estonia, Finland and Spain all far outpaced the performance of the S&P 500 (US). The total realized net return for these three countries was 23.48% and 19.46% in Q1 and…

Weekly industry news roundup

Financial Well-being

AROUND THE WORLD Q3 P2P lending exceeded ÂŁ700 million in Q3 according to the UK Peer to Peer Finance Association. This is an increase over the same number reported one year ago showing $658,000,000 in new lending. The P2PFA chair Christine Farnish remarked, “Data from the third quarter of 2016 highlight the strength of peer-to-peer…