Tagged: p2p

March 2, 2023 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

FOLK2FOLK, a peer-to-peer lending platform, has joined the Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA). As a member, the P2P lender will be able to expand its broker network for its loans. Adam Tyler,  FIBA executive chairman, said their lending partners are carefully selected, and the… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 8:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online investment and financing platform Estateguru is reporting having topped €500 million in loans in the Baltics. EstateGuru is an investment platform that enables individual investors to participate in secured loan offerings. The peer to peer platform launched in 2014 enabling property developers to borrow… Read More

February 11, 2023 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform Robocash has announced that new rates “will apply to loans from 91 days to 3 years.” As most businesses of Robocash Group have currently achieved self-sustaining state, they are reportedly “reducing interest rates on several loan terms and do not plan to increase… Read More

January 27, 2023 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Fagura, a Fintech that aims to become the “first community digital bank in CEE for anyone to borrow, invest and transfer money,” has raised over €786,000 on Seedrs. According to the offering page, 287 investors backed the firm, which easily topped its €400,000 initial funding… Read More

January 9, 2023 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European P2P market is expected to lower its growth in 2023 “as financial institutions grapple with inflation,” according to an update from Robo.cash. Robocash analysts see several possible scenarios for the European P2P market development in 2023. The baseline scenario “implies that the market… Read More

December 16, 2022 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital will exit its retail business and emerge as a lending platform completely funded by institutional money, according to an update posted on the company’s website. For observers of the peer-to-peer lending industry, the decision should come as no surprise. Assetz Capital has been… Read More

December 14, 2022 @ 8:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

SaveLend Group AB, a savings platform for savers to generate yield through credit, such as SME, real estate, consumer credit, and factoring in both SEK and EUR, has announced the outcome of the option redemption. According to a statement by SaveLend,  the company has received… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 5:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mozzeno, a peer-to-peer lending platform based in Belgium, has surpassed €100 million in individual loans, according to a blog post. Mozzeno raised €465,000 in pre-seed funding in 2016 and went on to originate its first loan the following year. Mozzeno celebrated its 5-year anniversary in… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Proplend, an online lending platform that allows individual investors to partiipate in commercial property loans, has appointed a new Chairman of the Board. According to a note from Proplend, Jason Oakley is the new Chair. Oakley was most recently the Managing Director of Metro Bank…. Read More

September 21, 2022 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The population’s need for affordable non-bank loans due to a low credit rating or its absence, difficulties with the registration process, etc. could be “the main driver of the American P2P market,” according to an update from Robo.cash. The national specifics are also very clearly… Read More

September 20, 2022 @ 5:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has announced a new Statement of Policy regarding peer-to-peer lending (P2P Lending) adopted during its annual Fall Meeting in Nashville. P2P lending is the act of individual investors providing capital to a borrower – either for a single… Read More

September 19, 2022 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Estateguru, a European online investment platform providing secured loans for SMEs financed by both private and institutional investors, has signed an agreement with Czech Investment Bank J&T Banka. According to a company statement, Bank J&T Banka will offer managed accounts to provide access to the… Read More

September 7, 2022 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Economic uncertainty, which peaked in the first half of 2022, “challenged investors to reconsider finance instruments in terms of risk-reward ratio,” according to an update from Robo.cash. The analysts at Robo.cash recently commented on “popular” assets and how they have been performing since the beginning… Read More

August 30, 2022 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

VIAINVEST, a peer-to-peer lending platform licensed and supervised by the Financial and Capital Market Commission in Latvia, has enlisted the assistance of iDenfy to provide ID verification and anti-fraud sevices. iDenfy ensures AML and KYC compliance for both large and smaller firms. VIAINVEST believes that… Read More

August 16, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satellite IM, a fully decentralized peer-to-peer communications platform, has successfully closed $10.5 million in its seed funding round “led by Multicoin Venture Fund and Framework Ventures.” The investment round also “saw participation from prominent institutional venture investors including Hashed Venture Fund, IDEO CoLab, Solana Ventures,… Read More

July 10, 2022 @ 12:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced that it is working cooperatively with ING Bank N.V. on Project NEAR, which is ING’s pilot of the industry’s “first” UWB-based peer-to-peer payment app. The pilot program will “leverage UWB-enabled Samsung Galaxy smartphones1 to allow consumers to directly share money… Read More

July 6, 2022 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Robo.cash noted that they will continue updating clients on the work of platform originators in 2022. RC Riga Singapore started the year confidently, “having significantly increased its loan portfolio.” Here are some key points shared by the Robocash team: 78% of loans… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

P2P consumer lending platforms are the “most stable” in their growth, while the business segment is “increasing faster than the others,” the team at Croatian lender Robo.cash claims. Geographically, sustainable development is “mainly shown” by Croatian and Italian platforms, the Robo.cash writes in a blog… Read More

April 19, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Impervious Technologies Inc. is pleased to confirm the close of their seed financing round, with participation from Bitcoin and privacy-focused investors including CoinShares, NYDIG, Trammell Venture Partners, Fundamental Labs, Strategic Cyber Ventures, TEN-31 and others “to scale the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) internet standard.” As noted in… Read More

March 28, 2022 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

FOLK2FOLK, an SME lender that matches investors with borrowers, is reporting a “record year” for its Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) for the tax year 2021/22, sharing that the company received 44% more ISA funds than in the previous year. FOLK2FOLK states that it has seen… Read More