Tagged: lending

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

August 6, 2021 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Celsius has secured the backend pricing of crypto-assets using Chainlink, which is considered a major leap in CeFi “decentralization.” As stated in the update from Celsius: “In one of the most ambitious moves towards decentralization, Celsius is now leveraging the industry-leading Chainlink Price Feeds to… Read More

August 4, 2021 @ 11:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

At the end of 2018, LF TECH had launched on Mintos to provide short-term consumer loans issued in Kazakhstan. After the initial launch, the firm paused activities so it could adopt its new strategy and restructure the company for increased scalability opportunities. LF TECH has… Read More

August 4, 2021 @ 10:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Brooklyn, New York based ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum (ETH) development studio, has published its latest report on the Current State of DeFi. The report from ConsenSys provides a detailed analysis of Ethereum’s decentralized finance ecosystem and its ongoing growth during Q2 2021…. Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Forus Capital, a Saudi Arabia-headquartered Islamic P2P lending marketplace, has secured funding via a Series A round (for an undisclosed amount). As noted by its management: “Forus Capital [is an] Islamic debt marketplace that enables investors to invest in a marketplace of alternative loans targeted… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital on Tap, a UK-headquartered Fintech firm, reveals that it has introduced its small business credit card in the US markets. There’s been a lot of demand for such products, the company claims. Since April 2021, there have been more than 28,000 businesses that have… Read More

August 1, 2021 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendingPoint, a financial tech platform, recently revealed that it had completed its largest securitization to date: LendingPoint 2021-A Asset Securitization Trust (“LDPT 2021-A”), which was “$542,360,000 in size, rated by KBRA, and backed by a pool of unsecured, direct-to-consumer loans.” As mentioned in a release,… Read More

July 31, 2021 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Latvia-based P2P lending platform Sun Finance has exceeded the €1 billion (appr £851.7 million) milestone in the total loans provided. The company reveals that it’s on track to end 2021 with €200 million in earnings. Established in January 2017, the Sun Finance platform has managed… Read More