Tagged: Market Report

UK Hiring Activity Slows, with Wage Expectations Down, which May Impact Inflation Levels – Report

A market report shared with CI reveals that UK hiring activity has slowed down, with London set to lose another name. As noted in the update: FTSE 100 opens marginally higher, reports show UK hiring activity slowed in August Competition probe wipes hundreds of millions… Read More

HNWIs Are Convinced that Alternative Investments like Venture Capital, Digital Currencies, Structured Products Will Provide Long-Term Returns: Report

  High-net-worth investors “remain absolutely convinced” by alternative investments, including venture capital, cryptocurrencies, structured products, and hedge funds – “despite a wider slowdown of inflows into the sector.” The assessment from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes as media reports… Read More

EstateGuru Reports Robust Performance of Loan Origination Volume in July Across Key Markets

EstateGuru reports that the loan origination volume in July “performed robustly across our key markets.” As noted in the update shared by EstateGuru, Estonia accounted “for €5.0M, Latvia contributed €1.4M, and Lithuania added €1.9M, resulting in a total origination volume of €8.9M.” The EstateGuru team… Read More

Underperformance from Private Equity Funds Expected, Relative to Public Equities, Resulting in Flattish Absolute Returns: Pitchbook

Without offsetting topline growth or debt reduction, management will need to increase efficiency and reduce investment “to retain earnings power and, even then, may face lower valuation multiples,” the team at Pitchbook noted in a comprehensive market update. Hence, Pitchbook now expects further underperformance “from… Read More

Enterprise Blockchain Firm Ripple Releases Q2 2023 XRP Markets Report

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO at Ripple, says that they began sharing detailed reports to voluntarily provide updates of their XRP holdings. Sadly, however, they were used against them in the US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC lawsuit – however, he added that they remain steadfast in… Read More

Fintech Earnix Releases Report Indicating Necessity of Flexible Loan Pricing Tech in Vehicle Finance Market

Market drivers for vehicle demand have been more volatile since early 2020 than any time in history and lenders require flexible pricing technology to stay competitive, according to the Competing and Capturing Customers in a Disrupted Auto Finance Market report. The paper published by Earnix,… Read More

Bridge Rounds on the Rise as VC Market Slows, Carta Report Reveals

As this year’s slowdown in venture capital continued through Q3, VCs increasingly used bridge rounds “to keep their portfolio companies afloat—or to position them for a stronger rebound when dealmaking picks up,” according to an update from Carta. Bridge rounds are “unpriced financing rounds that… Read More

As BTC Price Continued to Decline in 2022, Crypto Miners with Large Loan Agreements Were Forced into Selling Bitcoin: Report

2021 was quite the ride for the cryptocurrency mining industry, according to an update from Compass Mining. Financial analysts predicted $100,000 Bitcoin prices. Miners reportedly “touted huge purchase orders and deployments. And stock prices seemingly couldn’t go downward.” By the end of that year, however,… Read More

Investors Rotated Out of Financial Services and Into Healthcare and Tech, Addepar Monthly Report Reveals

Addepar has shared the latest updates as they pertain to the Addepar platform, as well as key insights from their proprietary, “anonymized” and aggregated data set, along with highlights from their client community; and updates about their team at Addepar. In November, they’re taking a… Read More

EstateGuru Investors Financed €14.1M in Loans During June 2022

Despite the ongoing holiday season, EstateGuru investors reportedly financed €14.1 million worth of loans during the month of June 2022. All of the primary markets they operate in performed “exceptionally,” led by Estonia (€3.5M), Germany (€3.0M) and Lithuania (€2.7M). EstateGuru further revealed that they witnessed… Read More

Crypto Jobs Report: Circle, Kraken, CoinDCX, Nium Looking to Hire New Talent

  Analysis of online jobs data has found that digital currency exchange Kraken is “leading” the crypto recruitment charge. The company is looking “to fill over 650 new positions in the past week in the UK and United States.” Further analysis shows that Jack Dorsey’s… Read More

Investors Backed Nearly €20M in Loans via EstateGuru in May 2022

European lender EstateGuru notes that their investors backed nearly €20.0 million worth of loans in May of 2022. The “best-performing” market was Estonia (€7.0M), “followed by Lithuania (€5.0M) and Finland (€3.6M).” As EstateGuru predicted last month, repayments “improved during May.” Their borrowers “paid back €14.6M… Read More

AI and Machine Learning VC Investment Slumped, but Retained Relatively “Resilient” Valuations: Report

AI and machine learning (ML) focused VC investment slumped in line or consistent with the market but retained “resilient valuations” as the market sorts through the fallout from the recent technology crash. As noted in an update shared by Pitchbook, funding “slumped 21.1% QoQ to… Read More

€14.7M Worth of Loans Financed via EstateGuru in April 2022

European lender EstateGuru reports that €14,7M worth of loans were financed during April of 2022. New loans in Estonia “contributed nearly 50% of the volume, followed by Germany and Latvia.” During the past month, EstateGuru reports it has “seen a rise in investor activity and… Read More

EstateGuru Financed €16.7M in Loans in March, Despite Macroeconomic Changes: Report

As the EstateGuru team claims to have predicted, the total funded amount in March was “similar to February.” EstateGuru‘s management writes in a blog post that investors “financed €16.7M worth of loans and, despite macroeconomic changes, investor and borrower behavior remains stable.” During March, Estonia… Read More

EstateGuru Reports Germany, Estonia Contributing Over Half of Total Funding via Platform in Jan 2022

The first month of this year saw €16.3M in loans originated via EstateGuru with Estonia and Germany together contributing more than half the total amount of funding. Due to seasonality, repayments came in at a “modest” at €2.5M, accounting for 23 loans with “an average… Read More

Bondora Reports that Investment Portfolio Performance in Estonia, Spain, Finland Is Exceeding Expectations

European lender Bondora reveals that 2022 is off to a solid start, as the annual return rate for 2021 outperforms the target rate by 5.5%. The quarterly performance has also improved from December 2021, with all four quarters of 2021 “performing above their target rates.”… Read More

UK Real Estate Market Report: Property Prices Continue to Reach All-Time Highs Due to Strong Demand

The year has kicked off on a strong note in the United Kingdom’s housing market and the price of an average home continued to reach all-time highs, according to an update published by Blend Network, a specialist development finance lender. The Nationwide House Price Index… Read More

Unprecedented Inflation to Impact Financial Markets, Consumer Behavior

A report from PeerIQ notes that the official numbers are in and they’re not looking so great. Inflation, as measured by the CPI, surged at a higher than expected 7.5% annualized rate in January 2022. That’s the fastest rate of price increases since 1982. Expectations… Read More

EstateGuru Platform Investors Financed €18.6M Worth of Loans in December 2021

EstateGuru notes that 2021 ended “strongly” for their platform, with their investors financing €18.6M worth of loans in December 2021. As mentioned in the update from EstateGuru, the total funded amount for the year was €2028M. In December, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany all “contributed over… Read More

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