Last week was relatively quiet in the industry. Main highlights are news that Goldman Sachs is nearing the launch of their online lending service and Amazon launching a partnership with Wells Fargo in the US. In the UK Financial Times discusses why alternative finance platforms should become banks. Financial Times also shares the thoughts of…

Last week we saw a number of positive signs for the industry coming from the US. LendingClub seems to have sorted out its troubles with Jefferies Group and Moody's has removed warning's from Citigroup Inc. securitization of Prosper loans. Peer-to-peer lending is also getting more coverage in traditional financial press in the UK with multiple…

We have selected a few stories on peer-to-peer lending from last week that everyone interested in this industry should read. Check out the topics below. AN ANALYSIS COMPARING DIFFERENT FIXED INCOME INVESTMENTS WITH PEER-TO-PEER LENDING Online Lending: High-Yield Investing for a Low-Yield World (5.07.2016, Orchard Platform) STORY ON CONSEQUENCES OF A UK PLATFORM GOING INTO ADMINISTRATION…

Last week Fintech Switzerland published an article on the top peer-to-peer lending platforms in Europe. That made us reminisce what a difference a decade has made. Back then, marketplace lending was thought of as an alternative asset class and was viewed by early adopters as a compelling investment opportunity. Today, the industry has evolved into an asset…

The UK has voted to leave the EU. The media is buzzing about how the recent vote will change everything. We asked CEO of Bondora, Pärtel Tomberg, to comment on the recent outcome. The UK is the #1 marketplace lending market in Europe today. Pärtel - how do you see Brexit influencing the marketplace lending…

It’s officially the season of summer reading. We asked peer-to-peer lending advocates Kristi Saare and Tauri Alas from Investeerimisraadio to reveal their favorites – books they simply loved and that made them think in new ways. Here are their top six recommendations. KRISTI SAARE is an English & economics teacher with a passion for investing. Her…

Pushing Boundaries – the 2015 UK Alternative Finance Industry is the latest report jointly published by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at the University of Cambridge and Nesta, which tracks the size and development of online alternative finance in the UK. In total 94 companies participated in the survey and the results give an in…

Is P2P lending a threat or an opportunity? The PwC report examines how peer-to-peer lending platforms are transforming the consumer lending industry and how traditional banks fit in this picture. We made a short summary of the report. A paradigm shift Peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending is shaped by technological breakthroughs and demographical shifts. As…

Kristi Saare and Tauri Alas from Investeerimisraadio invited our CEO Pärtel Tomberg to speak on their podcast. Investeerimisraadio is the top Estonian investing podcast to cover this subject inside and out. It turned out that Pärtel was a long-awaited guest at the show that resulted in two separate podcasts. He kindly shared his thoughts on…

In September 2015 EY did an interesting survey about Financial technology adoption. UK was the only European country surveyed but we believe that majority of the results are universal to Europe and many other parts of the world. EY surveyed more than 10,000 digitally active people in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, the United Kingdom…