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…
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,…
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…
We are happy to bring you the latest improvements to our Primary and Secondary Market requested by our investors. PRIMARY MARKET On our Primary Market investors can hand-pick loans and make manual investments. It consists of loan applications that are available for investors to invest in during the auction. A successful auction results in the…
In September 2015 EY did an interesting survey about Financial technology adoption. UK was the only European country surveyed but we believe that majority of the results are universal to Europe and many other parts of the world. EY surveyed more than 10,000 digitally active people in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom…
KEY TAKEAWAYS All the countries where we currently perform lending activities (Spain, Finland, Estonia) are now profitable All our country-grade segments (other than 3) have produced returns in line or above the expected return Net yields on Bondora are highest in the marketplace lending industry 98% of the portfolio above target return and returns in…
It’s been another action-packed year here at Bondora. We want to thank everyone for being part and making our community of 12,242 investors and 243,062 borrowers. We had quite a few memorable moments this year and here is a selection we wanted to highlight for you. Happy holidays and enjoy the highlights! In 2015: We…