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Your Guide to Financial Success through Each Life Stage

Financial Well-being

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…

Bondora Monthly Stats March 2024

Stats & Data

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…

The top 10 Bondora highlights from 2020

Bondora News

This year has turned out quite differently than many of us expected. But despite the challenges thrown at us, we made it a success and have countless positive moments to look back on. Here are our top 10 highlights from 2020: Our ‘brand new’ office – We revamped our office and created a video so…

Estonian originations double in November

Stats & Data

Estonian originations continue to climb higher and higher. This time, originations grew 109.0% from October to €6,507,594. Unlike previous months, Estonia wasn’t the only country with originations. After extensive review, we’ve decided to re-open the Finnish market. A small value of Finnish loans—€23,547 total—originated in the month, the first time since March. This brought the…

Bondora says: ’Thank you’ – Bondora (Video)

Bondora News

It’s the end of the year. Can you believe it? And it hasn’t been the easiest one. But despite the difficulties life has thrown at all of us, we made it through together. We don’t want to sound cliché but believe us when we say we couldn’t have done it without you. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yk4m5Rekt2c Bondora was…

Long-term thinking means long-term doing

Financial Well-being

Let’s face it. We are not that long-term oriented as we proclaim to be. Sure, we say we are long-term investors, and we imagine ourselves to be, but are we really? It’s time for a test. Hi, I’m Kolja Barghoorn from Aktien mit Kopf, a German YouTube channel discussing stocks, P2P and investing. Today I…

Secondary Market makes a comeback in November

Stats & Data

Secondary Market transactions came roaring back after a decline in October. A total of €527,808 was transacted on the Bondora Secondary Market in November, up from €387,537 last month, indicating a stable growth rate of 36.2%. While both API and Portfolio Manager transactions were lower, Manual transactions supported the overall growth of the Market in…

Spanish originations lead growth in Bondora 2020 returns

Stats & Data

The usual trend for portfolio returns is to decline over time as more origination payments are missed slightly. However, in November, Bondora portfolio returns wholly bucked this trend and were higher across the board compared to October. This was led by significant rises in Spanish originations’ return rates, even as Estonian originations saw their returns…

Why is my portfolio not investing? – Bondora (Video)

Bondora News

If you are an active Portfolio Pro or Portfolio Manager user, then you might have seen that your portfolio hasn’t been investing as usual. This is why: We recently reviewed how investments are distributed across all investing products. When compared to the number of active investors, we discovered that a higher share of investments was…

Another month of recovery records in November

Stats & Data

November was another historic month for both the number of missed payment recoveries and the total cash recovered on Bondora. In total, 67,535 missed payments were recovered in November, up 3.1% from one month ago. Thank you to our dedicated teams who made this happen. Recoveries were up across the board for all stages of…