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,…
Forbes Magazine picked in 2013 ten European alternative lending platforms to watch. The industry was worth 1.21 billion euros that year, and it more than doubled last year to 2.95 billion, becoming ever more diverse and fragmented as new platforms came to market. In the UK alone today there are over 100 platforms available for…
More than 750 attendees were visiting the largest online lending event in Europe – LendIt Europe 2015 – this week in London. The conference was split between platforms and investors and was represented with 45 countries, making it very diverse. We have summed up some of the takeaways for you. Institutional investors are increasingly more…
We have great news for you this week – with excitement we are introducing our new dashboard and automated investment tool. Over the years Bondora has consistently delivered industry leading double digit returns to investors. With this new chapter in our story we will continue working hard to make investing a joyful experience. “The new…
Traditional financial institutions do not serve the customer well when it comes to borrowing. In consumer borrowing, mainstream financial service providers tend to lack flexibility – not only in their opening hours, but in taking a very vertical view of a potential customer. This produces by necessity a black and white view – ‘good customers’…
Private investors Lars Wrobbel and Kolja Barghoorn have published a new book “Investieren in P2P-privatkredite” (Investing in P2P-lending). The book is mostly targeted for investors offering an overview of the opportunities that peer-to-peer lending offers. It encourages readers to get started by offering insights into P2P future analysis and strategies for a good profit. In…
It is over twenty years since Bill Gates famously said, “Banking is essential, banks are not”, and now it has started to happen — traditional banking in the US could very soon lose $11 billion to alternative finance every year according to Goldman Sachs. Many old banks want a piece of the alternative finance growth…
Our latest blogpost on collection process received a lot of attention. We gathered together the most hot comments and highlighted the answers in a separate post. Why is the success fee % so high in Estonia? In Estonia we are testing 4 DCAs to understand if higher collection fees offered by some of them will…
There was a recent discussion on the profitability of investments on Bondora; thus, we have decided to provide a detailed breakdown of the interest amounts paid out to Investors across all our markets. The information is covering the period since the inception of the company to September 24, 2015, and includes a) loan origination amount, b) interest paid…
We have received numerous questions about the changes to the collection process that we introduced earlier this year. In order to address those, we have compiled a detailed overview of the collection process for both delinquent and charged-off loans. Process overview Bondora has developed a standardized, largely automated collection process that is used across all markets…
We are happy to announce that today at midnight we will roll-out the new bankruptcy-remote legal structure. As mentioned in our previous blog post, the new structure is suitable for EU and non-EU investors, both natural and legal entities (incl. non-financial legal entities). After the roll-out, the loan agreements shall be concluded between the borrower and Bondora, and…