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August 2023: Over €15M for Investment Funding and Originations

Bondora News

The growth that kickstarted in July has continued into August, with increases across the board. Loan originations, as well as investment product funding, totaled over €15M each in August. Cash recoveries and collection efforts also increased to over €1M. Here are more stats from August: 1,404 new investors joined Bondora in August. In the same…

Investor talk with Kolja Barghoorn and Lars Wrobbel

Bondora News

Our German investors Kolja Barghoorn and Lars Wrobbel are co-authors of the popular P2P investment guidebook “Investieren in P2P-Privatkredite” in German but for neither of the 31-year old men investment is not the first priority. Kolja runs a web video production firm and Lars works as an IT expert, while writing books, writing for a…

Inside Bondora – 7 questions with Kairo

Bondora News

Dear readers. We are more than happy to put the spotlight on the people inside Bondora. We start to introduce you to our people who make things happen behind-the-scenes and who impact the global financial technology scene. First up is the always digital Kairo Kraaner. What do you do here at Bondora? I joined Bondora…

Video: Overview of the new bidding process

Bondora News

We are very happy to bring you our second Youtube video from the series that focus on Bondora new features. Just recently, the grant of the credit provider licence from the Estonian Financial Supervision Authority (FSA) brought along some changes in the product. One change that came together with the license was the new bidding…

Improvements in our debt collection & recovery process

Stats & Data

IN SHORT We have implemented a more aggressive strategy to deal with overdue loans. One of the key strengths of this new process is that we will hand over the overdue loan to a local debt collection agency (DCA) already after a week after missing a payment. This will deliver quicker results and improve payment…

Bondora is now regulated by the Estonian Financial Supervision Authority

Bondora News

Estonian Financial Supervision Authority (FSA) has granted Bondora a credit provider licence. The FSA is the main regulating body in Estonia which governs and oversees all banks, credit providers, credit intermediaries, insurance companies, insurance intermediaries, fund managers, investment and pension funds, investment firms, E-money institutions and payment service providers. The application process has been very thorough and…

Investor talk with Martin Resch

Bondora News

Martin Resch’s investment career has lasted over 30 years. His investments span from growing trees all the way to day trading and for the last 8 years a growing piece of his portfolio is going into P2P lending. Please give us a little hint about your background and what are you up to today?  Living…

We’ve hit €1 billion!

Stats & Data

Bondora has hit a major milestone today – we have processed €1, 000, 000, 000 worth of loan applications. Out of those applications we have approved €150M of loans to our marketplace and our investors have funded €52M. Having generated €1 billion in demand is a fantastic accomplishment that clearly shows Bondora as a global…

Video: Journey through the new cash flow page

Bondora News

As you have probably seen we’ve been actively updating our cash flow page. It has been our engineering team’s priority over February and March to execute the feature improvements that you have been requested. We hope that the cash flow page serves as a great analytical tool for you and becomes the go-to place to…

Bondora turns 7 today – let’s celebrate!

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Seven years ago today Bondora was launched. As part of the celebration, we’ve put together an infographic to bring you some of the highlights from the past years. This is also a great moment to reflect back and say Thank You to all our customers for your support over the years. We are truly thankful…

The 2015 UK alternative finance industry report

Financial Well-being

Pushing Boundaries – the 2015 UK Alternative Finance Industry is the latest report jointly published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge and Nesta, which tracks the size and development of online alternative finance in the UK. In total 94 companies participated in the survey and the results give an in…