Tagged: loans

February 16, 2024 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has provided a £2.5m loan to SES, the manufacturer of power distribution products for the entertainment industry, to support the creation of its employee ownership scheme. Founded in 1994 by brothers Mark and Gordon Cooper, and headquartered… Read More

February 5, 2024 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In December, Mintos reports that it continued its strong performance, with investments in Notes reaching €113.7 million. According to Peteris Mikelsons, Head of Partnerships at Mintos, “this marks the second-best month in 2023, following the peak in November.” However, the supply of new loans “failed… Read More

February 3, 2024 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru reports that with the continued support of clients has allowed them to weather the storm, and consolidate their status as a key player focused on property backed lending in Finland, and the Baltics. Estateguru‘s management notes in a blog post that the challenging macroeconomic… Read More

January 17, 2024 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth – the digital bank for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs – has provided a loan to Lovett Care, the care home provider. Founded in 2009, Lovett Care specializes in “offering residential, nursing and dementia care across England and Wales.” The past three years has seen the… Read More

January 2, 2024 @ 2:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jaya Vaidhyanathan, CEO, BCT Digital, recently shared key insights with CI that are focused around the banking sector and unsecured loans offered in India (along with the Reserve Bank of India’s recent policy decisions). Jaya from BCT Digital notes that as we enter 2024, the… Read More

December 29, 2023 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry recently completed the repayments of the last Polish loans. Over €20 million of Polish loans (plus accrued interest) were “repaid to investors in November and December.” Previously, loans issued in Poland accounted “for about 25% of all loans” funded through the PeerBerry platform. PeerBerry… Read More

December 28, 2023 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru says that they saw €9.4 million in loan repayments in November, with an additional €1.3 million coming from recovered loans. As noted in a blog post by Estateguru, the total returns amounted to €1.1 million, “with an average return rate of 8.99%.” Estateguru has… Read More

December 23, 2023 @ 11:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bondora reveals that November showed signs of slightly less activity for loan originations. Bondora noted that Finland remains “the most robust loan market, with over €10M in loan originations in November alone.” Due to strategic risk policy changes, “the Spanish market is also temporarily closed… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 11:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In November 2023, the Estateguru platform continued to perform well. Estateguru reports that it “achieved a loan volume of €7.4M, with a total of €10.6M in repaid principal and €1.2M in repaid interest.” During the first 9 months of 2023, Estateguru’s investors have received “a… Read More

December 14, 2023 @ 6:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In November 2023, investors invested a total of €2.24M  in agricultural projects through HeavyFinance. €1.90M was reportedly paid out for the farmers “with the capital spread across 54 different loans.” As of November 2023, HeavyFinance has “successfully issued a total of 46.63 million EUR in… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In November, Mintos reveals that it saw investments in Notes reach €135.2 million, the largest growth in two years. According to Peteris Mikelsons, Head of Partnerships at Mintos, this upward trend can primarily be attributed to “larger than usual repurchases, primarily made by Eleving Group,… Read More

December 3, 2023 @ 5:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry investors have reportedly funded a record-high amount of over €80.4 million of loans in November and earned €862 844 in interest. PeerBerry’s portfolio has “amounted to €109.88 million at the end of the last months.” PeerBerry reveals that it currently “has over 76 625… Read More

November 24, 2023 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MPOWER Financing, a mission-driven fintech firm and the leading provider of non-cosigned loans to promising students from around the world, recently announced that it has closed on debt financing that “has propelled the firm’s overall lending capacity to over $300 million.” Active funding includes commitments… Read More

November 17, 2023 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Iute Group reports that its performing loans portfolio and revenue continued to grow in the 9 months of 2023. The company has further shared the following financial and operational updates: Number of active customers declined “to 282 thousand (31 Dec. 2022: 293 thousand) but the… Read More

November 16, 2023 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In 21 months of the war (since February 24, 2022), PeerBerry business partners Aventus Group and Gofingo Group have, in total, repaid PeerBerry investors €46.2 million or 92% of the total outstanding war-affected obligations. Today, Gofingo Group repaid PeerBerry investors €200 000 in war-affected loans…. Read More

November 7, 2023 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partner – real estate developer SIB Group – has reportedly repaid investors a €200 000 loan (real estate project “Lini namai”) and paid €41,076 in interest to our investors. PeerBerry enters its seventh year of operations “with a record amount of funded loans… Read More

November 4, 2023 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Retail workers are able to avoid “financially crippling” fees associated with payday loans and late penalties, while amassing less credit card debt when they have access to the financial wellness benefit of DailyPay, according to an update shared by the Fintech firm. The research follows… Read More

November 1, 2023 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), the online platform for small business loans, announced that we have received a formal notice from the US Small Business Administration (SBA) that their application has “resulted in a tentative award for an SBA Small Business Lending Company (SBLC) license to… Read More

October 30, 2023 @ 9:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One more business partner, LoanPlus from Sri Lanka, joins the PeerBerry platform. LoanPlus will reportedly offer PeerBerry investors investments “in short-term loans with an 11.5% annual return.” Loans provided by LoanPlus to PeerBerry investors “include a buyback and a group guarantee.” LoanPlus (legal name AISIT… Read More

October 25, 2023 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Osprey Total Return Pool is the “first” actively managed investment grade credit portfolio available on-chain. The strategy of the pool is powerful: deliver “a total return from a short-duration Investment Grade credit portfolio of ‘real-world-assets’ including; Treasury Bills, Asset-Backed Securities, and Loans.” The pool… Read More