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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…

VIDEO: Weekly summary from Bondora – September 2017

Bondora News

WEEKLY SUMMARY FROM BONDORA You may have noticed that we are updating our blog more often. Here is what we did in this last week. Monthly Loan Originations In this post, we broke down the monthly originations in more detail by credit grade and by country. Estonia still has the most loans issued but Spain…

Monthly origination summary – August 2016

Stats & Data

Building on the record month of originations in July, in August, we saw originations grow in 2 countries (Estonia and Spain). We saw another record month of originations at €2,782,475, topping July’s record of 2.28 million Euro. That’s a 21.5% increase month over month. The loan origination summary for the month of August is detailed…

Weekly industry news round-up

Financial Well-being

AROUND THE WORLD One of China’s richest men calls p2p lending a scam. In this article, Chinese billionaire Guo Guangchang calls out p2p lending in his country not long after China’s government announces its limits on peer lending for borrowers there. Although we disagree with the premise, it does make for interesting reading to see…

VIDEO: Weekly summary from Bondora

Bondora News

Weekly Summary from Bondora We’ve seen a lot of activity in the last week and you may have noticed we are updating the blog more often. If you didn’t see what we’ve talked about in the last week, you missed a lot. Do you subscribe? Subscribe and never miss important news from us again. Here is…

Bondora portfolio performance – August 2016

Stats & Data

KEY TAKEAWAYS Country level returns are still strong with lenders earning a healthy 17.42% rate of return across all loans and all countries in 2015, which is looking good. The portfolio is paying above the targeted return ranges meaning excellent returns for lenders. ACTUAL AND TARGETED BONDORA NET RETURNS BY GRADE AND COUNTRY Estonia: Estonia…

Weekly industry news round-up

Financial Well-being

AROUND THE WORLD Lending Club leads an ugly quarter for US p2p lenders in this Bloomberg article. They aren’t the only ones with issues as Prosper, Avant having to cut staff as well. The executive shakeup at Lending Club and its impact on 2nd Quarter earnings is discussed here where new CEO Scott Sanborn is…

VIDEO: Weekly summary from Bondora

Bondora News

WRAP-UP OF LAST WEEKS POSTS An update to our Portfolio Manager Last week we released added new features to our Portfolio Manager product. The Portfolio Manager “Bid Size” is now set to 25€ by default for all customers who have not manually adjusted the value. Still, the default setting can be changed in the Portfolio…