Throughout each unique life stage, you will experience different challenges and opportunities associated with each part of life. Along this journey, your financial priorities and challenges evolve, shaping your path toward your financial well-being goals. Whether just starting early adulthood or almost retiring, understanding how to navigate the different life stages can help you achieve…
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…
WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA Over the last week we’ve seen some good activity on our blog. Higher Returns with our New Loan Pricing Structure We go over the upcoming changes to our loan pricing structure which will now reward more those investors who invest into higher risk loans. In the new loan pricing, we will…
We listened when our investors told us that they wanted higher returns for taking on greater risks. In fact, we will raise the expected return on our highest risk loan product by 12.3% over the coming weeks. That means you will be receiving returns of up to 32.5%, if you can live with the higher…
AROUND THE WORLD The biggest peer to peer lending conference LendIt has its LendIt Europe coming up in just a couple weeks. The conference takes place on October 10 and 11 in London. There’s still a chance to get discounted tickets if you want to go. This Bloomberg article goes into how Europe’s first securitization…
You can now earn some extra income by introducing your friends to Bondora. We are proud to announce our Refer-A-Friend offer. People don’t tell their friends about something unless they really like it whether it’s a new gadget, a new restaurant or a new beer they just tried. Social proof through friends is some of…
WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA Bondora Portfolio Performance – September 2016 In this post we bring you the monthly portfolio performance overview. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Country level performance continues to be positive and grow across all 3 countries. All countries and loan grades are yielding above 10%. Estonia sees steady and growing rates across credit grades. What…
KEY TAKEAWAYS Country level performance continues to be positive and grow across all 3 countries. All countries and loan grades are yielding above 10%. Estonia sees steady and growing rates across credit grades. What this means is that the higher rate credit grades like E, F, and HR have a strong repayment history. Their rates…
AROUND THE WORLD The Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance released its study on European alt finance that shows 92% growth in 2015. This growth is in all areas of alternative finance including crowdfunding and peer to peer lending. Europe is a fast growing alt finance market. Estonia is first in alternative finance volume and we…
One of the best benefits of Cash Flow statement is that it integrates many differents data points into single, understandable numbers. This saves a lot of time for investors who want to keep track of the bottom line of their investments. The high-level overview that the Cash Flow statement provides, allows the investor to see…
It would be pretty awesome if we had as much money as we wanted to invest here on Bondora and everywhere else that we could possibly invest. The reality is that we all have limited funds to work with. We need to choose our loans wisely, use our money effectively and reduce cash drag from…
WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA Performance of recovery process in Bondora – September 2016 Every month we outline Recovery Performance where we look at recovery rates of principal on loans that have defaulted each month and each quarter. Read more about it Weekly industry news roundup Around the world, SoFI in the US and Zopa in…