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…
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…
The peer-to-peer lending market is looking for another massive growth from 2016, but before holiday season kicks in, we here at Bondora have decided to dig deeper to see what will be the underlying trends shaping the surging industry in the new year. Institutional money We have started to see first signs of institutional investments coming…
In October we launched our new dashboard and Portfolio Manager. Since then we have polished the interface according to your feedback and we are happy to reveal two improvements. Upgraded design of the Portfolio Manager We have replaced the slider with three separate sections of the risk-return choices. The design is much more convenient now…
In May this year, we received a peer-to-peer lending interim license from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This means that Bondora has adopted the gold standard for Europe that is designed by authorities who are keen to promote and support alternative finance through clear and fair systems. The FCA implemented their regulations in 2014…
Dear Readers. We are happy to launch our new investor talk series here on the blog, where you can read about the experience and investment philosophies of Bondora investors. First up is an Estonian Jaak Roosaare. What are you up to today? I consider myself mainly an investor and a financial author/blogger. I also help to…
This year Bondora was honored with the Runner up award in Alternative Finance Platform of the Year (EU) 2015. “This award is proof of the hard work our team has been doing over the past years in building up a loan origination, credit scoring and servicing process that works across borders. We are also proud…
Recently we announced the release of Bondora API (Application Program Interface) that has been up and running for testing. We received a lot of great feedback and in the end of this week we are planning to roll out an updated version of the API to fulfill the requests. We spoke with our Head of…
EASY TO SET UP You can start investing in only two steps: first, select your desired target risk-return and second, agree to terms and conditions. The Portfolio Manager does the rest. CONTINUOUS INVESTMENT You now only have to set your Portfolio Manager up once and it will invest at your desired risk-return level. There’s no…
Alternative finance investors have seen the number of European platforms grow exponentially in the past few years. From what began as a small niche disrupting the traditional banking sector, there is now an argument that alternative finance should be considered a new asset class in itself. Understanding the differences between alternative finance platforms in such…
Our CEO and founder Pärtel Tomberg was among the panelists at last week´s largest online lending event in Europe – LendIt Europe 2015. The panel was called „Opportunities in Continental Europe” and the video is now publicly available. Here is our summary of the key thoughts from the discussion: Institutional money is starting to flow into…