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🔴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…

How does Bondora ensure its operational stability?

Bondora News

The Bondora model is based on a transparent framework that offers unparalleled operational stability and effectiveness. We believe that the trust we’ve built and continue to build will allow us to expand our offerings. The very nature of borrowing and lending is formed with a mutual trust. For this reason we have built a platform…

VIDEO: Weekly summary from Bondora

Bondora News

WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA Loan funding per channel on Bondora On Tuesday, we looked at how our investors invest on Bondora platform. In summarize, an overwhelming percentage, 82%, of investments are made using our Portfolio Manager. Share of manual investments has decreased down to 11% and investments through Bondora API have been steadily around 6%….

Loan funding per channel on Bondora

Stats & Data

This week we are looking at the statistics of loan funding and each channels share of the total investments on Bondora platform. The trend of more investors choosing the Bondora Portfolio Manager (PM) over API and manual investing continued last month. Over the past month 82% of investments were made using PM compared to its…

Weekly industry news roundup

Financial Well-being

AROUND THE WORLD In this Bloomberg article Lending Club has raised rates and tightened credit policies. LC is calling it a ‘weighted average increase of 0.26%’ with increases in rates larger on the riskier grades than on the more conservative ones. And in this Investment News article LC announced their tool for robo investing on…

Statistics reports: Your annualized net return on investment

Bondora News

Our Statistics pages, both public and private, have been quite popular amongst our investors and site visitors. The purpose of these statistics is to give the investor a quick visual glance of Bondoras various performance indicators. Today we look at the private statistics page and explain a little bit closer one the most important metrics…

Active and passive investing with Bondora

Bondora News

Does Greater Effort Yield Greater Portfolio Performance? The data, charts, and models of the investing world often lead us away from a simple truth; the decision to become a passive or active investor is rooted in personality. Some investors enjoy the uncharted journey that is an active approach. Others, more focused on other areas of…

VIDEO: Weekly summary from Bondora

Bondora News

WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA Over the last week, the focus has been on our Portfolio Manager tool more than in the last few weeks. Performance of recovery process in Bondora – October 2016 Yesterday, we talked about the performance of principal recovery from our late payers. 3 of our 4 countries saw either an increase…

Performance of recovery process in Bondora – October 2016

Stats & Data

The monthly results are in for October for recoveries on our platform. Let’s see how we did. KEY TAKEAWAYS After the significant increase of the recovery rates in September, Estonia’s principal recovery declined slightly from 71% to 67% in Q2 of 2016. Slovakia’s principal recovery improved drastically from only 23% up to 548% in second…

Weekly industry news roundup

Financial Well-being

AROUND THE WORLD In India, The Economic Times discusses P2P lending as a fixed income generating investment with quotes from a couple platforms there. Staying in India, The Business Standard reports that Indian P2P lender Faircent is entering the market of secured loans. Faircent is adding some potentially innovative loan products including loans on gold or…