Tagged: lending

November 15, 2021 @ 10:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lending platform Bondora notes that for the second straight month, the Secondary Market transactions via the platform have decreased. Bondora wrote in a blog post dated November 15, 2021 that while a total of €311,848 was transacted on the Secondary Market in September… Read More

November 15, 2021 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian peer-to-peer lender Robo.cash has shared corporate statistics, which highlight the social and geographic shifts of investors and their response to the growing market potential. The Robo.cash platform has “significantly expanded its active investor base in 2021, representing a more than 70% growth,” the company… Read More

November 14, 2021 @ 1:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at European online lender October recently revealed that Lot61 had borrowed €465,000 in order to finance an acquisition of part of their business. As mentioned in a blog post, October spoke to the company’s Australian founder Adam Craig about entrepreneurship, growth and “the… 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 10, 2021 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wing, which is Ontology’s cross-chain DeFi lending platform, has officially gone live on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Following the integration, millions of decentralized finance users should be able to access modern financial services. As mentioned in an update shared with CI: “Showcasing its status as… Read More

November 9, 2021 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SimpleNexus, developer of the homeownership platform for loan officers, borrowers, real estate agents and settlement agents, has announced the launch of Nexus Bilingual, a feature that makes the loan process more accessible to homebuyers who want to communicate in Spanish by obtaining  loan information in… Read More

November 7, 2021 @ 1:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian P2P lender Robo.cash has shared the performance of its loan originators for Q3 2021. The Robo.cash team writes in a blog post, dated November 2, 2021, that today, they’re updating clients on the results of the Robo.cash loan originators in Q3. UnaPay, the Philippines… Read More

November 4, 2021 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Online lending platform Jaja Finance Ltd reveals that a consortium of investors, who are led by shareholder KKR and including entities owned by investment funds being managed by TDR Capital LLP, have entered an agreement with Jaja to become majority shareholders of the business. This… Read More

October 31, 2021 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asset managers are set to deploy capital at an accelerated rate, according to an update from European online lender October. Despite the global 2020 Covid-19 outbreak and resulting socioeconomic uncertainty, the asset management sector is going strong, if not stronger, the team at October reveals…. Read More

October 29, 2021 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After their initial announcement of GoCredit going live on Mintos on August 13, 2021, the team is pleased to confirm that Mintos has “finalized” the Master Trust structure with the lending firm. GoCredit is reportedly the second firm on Mintos (along with Alivio Capital) to… Read More

October 25, 2021 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FIS and Money.Jo have teamed up to adapt to significant changes in consumer behavior in the MENA region. Less than a year after establishing business operations in Jordan, Money.Jo (also called Money for Finance) became the nation’s leading consumer loan provider, with €3.9 million in… Read More

October 25, 2021 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EstateGuru, a property-backed loan marketplace catering to retail investors, notes that in September 2021, they came very close to “breaking the record set in March 2021, financing 95 loans worth a total of €21.2 million.” The team at EstateGuru writes in a blog post that… Read More

October 25, 2021 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After a “positive jump” in the Bondora portfolio during the month of August 2021, originations had slightly lower return rates “as a whole in September.” European P2P lender Bondora also mentioned that originations still “show good returns when compared to their target rates.” Here are… Read More

October 24, 2021 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at P2P lender Robo.cash notes that the popularization of the secondary market in the European markets has surged considerably this year, exceeding the activity in 2020. As for Robo.cash, every month since 2020, the volume of secondary market transactions has “grown by an… Read More

October 21, 2021 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

This week the New York Attorney General announced that it has demanded two crypto firms halt their lending programs. Additionally, the AG said it had commenced an investigation into three other firms. All of this was predicated on the statement that interest generated from crypto… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIBR, the connected virtual banking platform, has launched so that it can serve European SMEs, by combining the stability of a bank with the agility and technology of a Fintech service provider. Based in the Netherlands, FIBR is focused on lending to European SMEs. The… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at P2P lending platform Bondora notes that September was another month that will be recorded in the platform recovery and collections “hall of fame.” Bondora writes in a blog post that more than €2.3 million was recovered in missed payments, which is notably another… Read More

October 17, 2021 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper, a marketplace lending company that connects borrowers and investors with over $17B in loans issued via its platform, has shared its Performance Update Report for the month of September 2021. As noted in the report prepared by Haiyan Huang from Prosper, dated October 15,… Read More

October 16, 2021 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KrediFazz, a subsidiary of FinAccel that operates as a P2P lending Fintech, has been issued a business license from the Financial Services Authority (OJK) via the Decree of the OJK Board of Commissioners Number: KEP-81 /D.05/2021, dated August 24, 2021. KrediFazz, a Fintech firm with… Read More

October 16, 2021 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

During the market recovery following the Coronavirus crisis, European peer-to-peer platforms that emerged by 2017 have managed to rebound “at above-market growth rate,” according to a report from Robo.cash. The Croatian P2P lender noted that “calm upward trend is supported by a 2% increase in… Read More