Tagged: lending

January 5, 2022 @ 3:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AS Mintos Marketplace (Mintos) has shared an update from Lime Zaim, a cooperation partner of Mintos that provides investment opportunities via Mintos.com. On 22 December 2021, Lime Zaim reportedly placed its debut bonds on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) in the “amount of 300 million rubles.”… Read More

January 4, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

David Snitkof, Head of Analytics at Ocrolus, which claims to be the leading document automation platform in financial services, powering the digital lending ecosystem, notes that just over a year ago, he had commented on the state of the automotive lending markets in the US…. Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 4:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kuflink, a P2P UK property investment platform, where they invest with you,  introduced new features and improvements to their platform throughout 2021, doing their best to make your Kuflink experience is “as efficient, and as easy, as possible,” the company wrote in a blog post…. Read More

January 2, 2022 @ 12:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The CEOs and team at European online lender October have thanked all their retail lenders and institutional investors, as they closed out 2021. The company has been focused on lending everyday to European SMEs. October writes in a blog post that in 2021, platform users… 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 30, 2021 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this month, the team at digital bank Zopa made an important update regarding the future of their peer-to-peer business. After 16 years of handling P2P investments at Zopa, the team has taken the decision to close down their retail investing business (something similar to… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anil Stocker, CEO at UK-based MarketFinance, a leading online lender that raised £280 million in debt and equity (earlier this year) and was approved for flex loans, notes that for most businesses in the United Kingdom, 2021 presented both opportunities and challenges (and that was… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 10:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nicholas Harding, Co-founder and CEO at Lending Works, noted that he established the firm with help from Matthew Powell,  Co-founder and CFO, back in 2014. Harding explains that they believed that technology could “transform customer experience in financial services.” Their aim was to “deliver this… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 6:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Fintech Blend notes that as humans, we can’t help but to “celebrate and feel positive in the moments when we finish a task productively.” And yet, for many consumers (and lenders), the completion of the mortgage journey “can still feel somewhat underwhelming,”… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 12:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European P2P lender Mintos has shared their latest Risk Score updates based on developments and data “from the third quarter of 2021” (now live on the platform). The Mintos team has shared the summary of the recent quarterly changes and other details… 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 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Interest for peer-to-peer loans is expected to gain traction across Europe, according to an update from Croatian P2P lender Robo.cash. As noted in a blog post by Robo.cash, the number of Google requests for P2P lending in Europe has been growing steadily this year. An… 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 23, 2021 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ibancar, the asset based consumer credit platform, has signed its first institutional debt facility “up to an amount of €10m.” The business is scaling quickly in Spain and intends to expand its activity to Mexico as well as introduce other auto-related credit products, according to… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 1:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI-enhanced credit decision platform provider, Scienaptic AI announced that Ascendus has selected its AI-powered underwriting platform to augment its lending process and “make advanced loan decisions for small and medium sized businesses.” As mentioned in the announcement, Ascendus is a New York-headquartered online business lender… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian P2P lender Robo.cash has provided an update on payment dates for long-term loans issued via their platform. Starting from December 16, 2021 (inclusive), investors who have purchased long-term loans “for a period of 90 days and longer will be receiving monthly interest payments every… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After two months of declining, Secondary Market activity on Bondora has reportedly picked up again, albeit “with a very slight 2%.” As mentioned in an update from Bondora, a total of €257,149’s worth of transactions “took place in November, compared to €252,126 in October.” Bondora… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank has announced an increase to business lender Simply’s ENABLE Funding facility. In total, the facility will reportedly offer £300 million of funding to SMEs across the United Kingdom. This is notably the largest facility under the British Business Bank’s ENABLE Funding… Read More

December 19, 2021 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mintos says it’s introducing a “responsible” investing requirement for all automated investments “in line with MiFID II.” The company notes that as investors will be able to invest in Notes in a regulated environment on Mintos, they are introducing “a responsible investing requirement for all… Read More

December 18, 2021 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Roxana Mohammadian-Molina, Chief Strategy Officer at UK’s Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender. Blend Network‘s Roxana Mohammadian-Molina talked about some of the landmark projects that they’ve helped out this year. She also commented on what her team is doing… Read More