Tagged: estonia

February 23, 2022 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The first month of this year saw €16.3M in loans originated via EstateGuru with Estonia and Germany together contributing more than half the total amount of funding. Due to seasonality, repayments came in at a “modest” at €2.5M, accounting for 23 loans with “an average… Read More

February 21, 2022 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

This is an interesting factoid. In a tweet, Funderbeam noted that Estonia claims the title of having the highest number of unicorns, per capita, in the world. 🦄 Estonia might soon have its 10th unicorn and already has the highest number of unicorns per capita… Read More

February 18, 2022 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ararat Yuzbashyan, CTO at EstateGuru, has explained how he aims to improve the lives of his colleagues. Ararat also talked about the advice he would give to talented professionals who are thinking of joining EstateGuru. Ararat has been working at EstateGuru for around 10 years…. Read More

February 17, 2022 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European lender Bondora reveals that 2022 is off to a solid start, as the annual return rate for 2021 outperforms the target rate by 5.5%. The quarterly performance has also improved from December 2021, with all four quarters of 2021 “performing above their target rates.”… Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 1:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European lender Bondora notes that they have kicked off the new year with many investors joining their platform. Originations and investments fell a bit, as they did during the month of December, but managed to maintain solid numbers when compared to January… Read More

January 30, 2022 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European lender Bondora notes that Go & Grow is their investors’ favorite or most preferred way to invest in their wealth. Bondora writes in a blog post that they have more than 158,000 “satisfied” Go & Grow investors. And there’s a solid reason why it’s… Read More

January 27, 2022 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tuum, the next-gen core banking platform, has announced a €15 million Series A round. Portage Ventures is leading Tuum’s investment round, along with contributions from existing investors Blackfin Capital Partners and Karma Ventures. As mentioned in the update, the proceeds should enable the core banking… Read More

January 26, 2022 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finvault Exchange OÜ, the Fintech firm that’s licensed and regulated by the Estonian FIU as an authorized digital currency exchange, is transforming the way individual consumers and businesses save, invest, transfer and spend their funds and digital wealth. Finvault announced that it has opened up… Read More

January 25, 2022 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lending platform EstateGuru has posted its 2021 financial results. According to the investment platform loan volumes increased by 69%, revenues 58%, new investors by 35% compared to 2020. EstateGuru said that all of the countries where they operate exceeded their targets with total lending… Read More

January 20, 2022 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Income Company, a firm that’s re-imagining investing in loans, has secured €756,558 (or over 100% of its €750,004 target) from 171 investors (at the time of writing) through its crowdfunding campaign via Seedrs with 27 days left in the sale. Here’s a short business overview… Read More

January 19, 2022 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EstateGuru notes that 2021 ended “strongly” for their platform, with their investors financing €18.6M worth of loans in December 2021. As mentioned in the update from EstateGuru, the total funded amount for the year was €2028M. In December, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany all “contributed over… Read More

January 1, 2022 @ 10:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European lender Bondora notes that 2021 was another “unexpected” year as they’ve learned to “adapt to a new normal.” But from change “comes growth,” Bondora writes in a blog post while adding that they’d like to take the a moment to highlight… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 11:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Return rates for 2021 Bondora originations continue to “perform well” in November, as they did in October of this year. Spanish originations kept rising above the target rate for 2021, along with other rates for the past couple of years. Overall, it was “a steady… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European online lender EstateGuru notes that during 2021, they have primarily focused on developing their loan origination tech and hiring new loan managers and credit analysts. This has helped them to support the relatively high volume of loan projects while maintaining a… Read More

December 13, 2021 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European P2P lender Bondora notes that the end of the year “looks bright” as they celebrate “yet another month of loan origination highs.” Last month, Bondora originated over €20.5M in loans—which is notably “the second-highest amount in Bondora’s history.” The current origination… Read More

December 13, 2021 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As we head towards the end of 2021, EstateGuru’s Head of Global sales, Mihhail Onohhov reflects back over the activities of the past year, and he also tries to look ahead to what he expects from 2022. As the person tasked with EstateGuru‘s sales strategy,… Read More

December 12, 2021 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Alter, formerly doing business as Altermail, reports that it has raised USD$ 1 million in seed funding. The venture capital firms participating in the funding round include Sky Vision Capital, Iconium, Magnus Capital, Sienna Network, Secret Swap, R930 Capital, Xavier Venture Group and Crypto Jalal… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As with any investment, it’s vital to know the different risks involved in peer-to-peer lending before you put up your cash. Equally important is how platforms evaluate, manage, and “present those risks,” according to a blog post published by EstateGuru. As noted by EstateGuru, P2P… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 10:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EstateGuru, an online investment marketplace that matches borrowers to investors with secured debt securities, notes that in October 2021, their investors financed a total of 104 loans, “valued at €16.9M.” Germany, which is EstateGuru’s largest market, “contributed €4.1M, while the largest volume was in Estonia (€6.1M),”… Read More

November 11, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, the international Open Banking platform, has announced a new collaboration with investment platform Lightyear in order to provide instant account funding via Open Banking payments. Lightyear, established by ex-Wise professionals Martin Sokk and Mihkel Aamer, combines multi-currency accounts with unlimited access to 1,000+ international… Read More