Tagged: lending

August 24, 2021 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avalanche lending protocol BENQI has reached $1 billion in total value locked (TVL) only a few days after its launch. BENQI, an algorithmic liquidity market protocol, has managed to attract more than $1 billion in total assets to its “decentralized” platform since its launch on… Read More

August 23, 2021 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European peer-to-peer lender Bondora reports that July brought “yet another month of increased investment” via the platform. Investors that are active on Bondora have “flooded” the platform with €11,628,988 in investments. This is “a steady 7.5% growth rate compared to June,” the company reveals while… Read More

August 21, 2021 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Robo.cash, a Croatian peer-to-peer lender, has shared insights on different investment approaches. In a new blog post, Robo.cash talks about the liquidity strategy. As explained by the P2P lender,  liquidity is one of the “significant factors” that make assets appealing to investors…. Read More

August 21, 2021 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The bridging finance sector has changed quite a bit during the past 2 decades. Bridging has gone mainstream and is “constantly growing,” according to an update from Assetz Capital. UK-based Assetz Capital, a marketplace lending platform originating secured loans, notes that in the current  economy, after… Read More

August 20, 2021 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Teslar Software, a provider of portfolio management tools that aggregate and automate the lending process and deposit operations for community financial institutions, reveals that it has teamed up with Citizens Bank & Trust in order to enhance lending processes from “beginning to end.” This should… Read More

August 20, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The art and collectible markets are considerably more “liquidity-starved” when compared to the global equity, gold markets, and other assets. And this problem is even more prevalent in the NFT market, which is its early stages of development. It might take a long time to… Read More

August 15, 2021 @ 11:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In June 2021, the team at Bondora, a leading P2P lending platform, had celebrated Go & Grow’s success with more than €10 million invested. And this month in August, they’re celebrating another key milestone: Bondora now has more than 170,000 investors active on its platform…. Read More

August 15, 2021 @ 8:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper, a peer-to-peer 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 July 2021. As noted in the report prepared by Haiyan Huang from Prosper, dated August 13,… Read More

August 15, 2021 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Automobile lender Jet Finance reveals that it has launched on European peer-to-peer lending platform Mintos. As mentioned in a blog post by Mintos, the Jet Finance team says it’s pleased to confirm that it has officially gone live on Mintos. According to the update, Jet… Read More

August 14, 2021 @ 1:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly 80% of European investors now use digital tools to keep track of their expenses, according to an update from Croatian peer-to-peer lender Robo.cash. Robo.cash notes in a blog post that 78.9% of investors have been monitoring their spending or transactions via an app or… Read More

August 13, 2021 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To serve residents in the Philippines that don’t have an established financial history, consumer lending firm SB Finance has teamed up with FinScore to enhance its credit scoring process using alternative data. By leveraging FinScore’s Telco Credit Scoring solution, SB Finance can reliably predict the… Read More

August 12, 2021 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Online lender October is currently active in five different European countries and now it’s the turn of the CEO of October Italy Sergio Zocchi to share his views and insights (after the company’s Netherlands and Spain Chief Executives provided comments during interviews). Sergio Zocchi, who… Read More

August 11, 2021 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Today, nearly a year and a half since the Coronavirus pandemic began, we have all been forced to adapt to the new environment or the “new normal” in almost every aspect of life. As at any time, there are always “winners” in the economy and… Read More

August 11, 2021 @ 12:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lithuania-based Debitum, a borderless financial platform, is pleased to report that their new product on the market “Easy Invest“ has officially been launched. With this new product, Debitum offers investors the same tools that professional investors have been using for a long time – “a… Read More

August 9, 2021 @ 11:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In April 2021, lending firm E-Cash had reportedly informed European P2P lender Mintos of its intentions to begin closing down its business operations. Due to E-Cash having missed “regular settlement payments” to investors for 7 days and a wind-down process that ‘hadn’t yet been evaluated,”… Read More

August 9, 2021 @ 1:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European peer-to-peer lender Bondora reports that its secondary market transactions fell during the month of July 2021. Last month, Bondora continued to see the “downward trend” of fewer transactions taking place on the Secondary Market, the company confirmed while noting that a total of €162,695… Read More

August 8, 2021 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian peer-to-peer lender Robo.cash has shared its performance update for its loan originations made during H1 2021. The Robo.cash team writes in a blog post that as the first half of this year has now passed, they’re pleased to share with you their most recent… Read More

August 7, 2021 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Blend Network, a peer-to-peer lending platform, notes that it’s “no secret” that the country suffers from a “structural under-supply” of housing. Blend Network writes in a blog post that the UK government has said it’s committed to providing 300,000 homes every… Read More

August 7, 2021 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s easyMoney, the investment platform from Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s easy family of brands that claims that it has “never lost a penny on its loans,” notes that investment in individual savings accounts or ISAs “continues to grow despite low interest rates.” The company questions whether… Read More

August 7, 2021 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Sourced Capital, the home of property-backed peer to peer investing, notes that when you’re deciding to invest into property, selecting the appropriate location is a good place to begin, and the type of property investment strategy that Sourced Capital’s Borrowers choose… Read More