After decreasing slightly in September, investments and originations rebounded in October. Both these statistics totaled just over €15M, with a growth rate of 4.8% from the previous month. On the other hand, cash recoveries decreased a little, totaling almost €1.6M in October. Here are more October stats: 602 new investors joined Bondora in October. In…
If you’re a millennial, chances are that family caregiving is something on your mind. Your parents’ health and retirement are beginning to play a part in your life. As we age, so do our older family members, and their well-being often becomes a concern. While caring for aging parents is admirable, it can strain your…
Today, we introduce you to Cem Serin, our 38th Bondorian in the Spotlight. Since joining Bondora in 2022 as a software engineer, he’s enjoyed a journey of excellence, growth, and discovery. As one of our software engineers in the Originations group, he and his team ensure all our borrower features and processes work seamlessly. Read…
Today is our support superstar Kairi’s birthday and we thought it might be nice to introduce her to you. Kairi is the person behind answering your queries and working alongside our engineering team to make your investing experience with Bondora as straightforward as possible. We asked her a few questions about the rewards and challenges…
Our cash flow page is the go-to place to get an overview of payments coming in and out of your portfolio – either historical, actual or future. We hope that this page serves as a great analysis tool for you, for example to get a daily overview of the repaid principal and received interest. Or…
Bondora has made its Application Program Interface (API) publicly available in Europe for both its retail and institutional investors. A publicly open API makes it possible to create a truly connected eco-system where numerous 3rd party services are built on a single marketplace. This will result in an increased quality of the P2P lending industry…
Is P2P lending a threat or an opportunity? The PwC report examines how peer-to-peer lending platforms are transforming the consumer lending industry and how traditional banks fit in this picture. We made a short summary of the report. A paradigm shift Peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending is shaped by technological breakthroughs and demographical shifts. As…
Andreas Tielmann is an active investor on the P2P platforms across Europe and his returns on Bondora are outstanding. We have a chat with him about his investing experience. What is your background and what are you up to today? I was born in Russia and since 1989 I live in Germany where I started…
Kristi Saare and Tauri Alas from Investeerimisraadio invited our CEO Pärtel Tomberg to speak on their podcast. Investeerimisraadio is the top Estonian investing podcast to cover this subject inside and out. It turned out that Pärtel was a long-awaited guest at the show that resulted in two separate podcasts. He kindly shared his thoughts on…
Wohhoooooo! We hit a big Bondora milestone yesterday – €50 million loans have been issued and funded by our growing base of 12,628 investors. This is a really gratifying moment for us and it shows that our investors see Bondora as a global and innovative platform to grow their investment capital. We just wanted to…
In October 2015 Liberum’s fintech analyst Cormac Leech presented an epic 32-page direct lending market overview (Direct Lending: Finding value/minimizing risk) at the LendIt conference in London. In the presentation he provides a great global perspective of the online direct lending market. According to Liberum’s report: Bondora is the highest returning platform in the marketplace…
With our next release, we are excited to introduce you our brand-new Expert Center and advanced Statistics page. Regarding statistics and reporting in general, this is our biggest feature release so far. During 2015 we gathered feedback from our investors about what their wish list would look like concerning data. Our engineering team tried to…
Having really started her serious investor career on Bondora, Aili Mitt is not your average investor. Now she is looking increasingly on other asset classes to spread the risks. How did you get into investing? I have always had a habit of saving up, and at one point I understood the saved money just sits…