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…

The peer-to-peer lending market is looking for another massive growth from 2016, but before holiday season kicks in, we here at Bondora have decided to dig deeper to see what will be the underlying trends shaping the surging industry in the new year. Institutional money We have started to see first signs of institutional investments coming…

Alternative finance investors have seen the number of European platforms grow exponentially in the past few years. From what began as a small niche disrupting the traditional banking sector, there is now an argument that alternative finance should be considered a new asset class in itself. Understanding the differences between alternative finance platforms in such…

Our CEO and founder Pärtel Tomberg was among the panelists at last week´s largest online lending event in Europe – LendIt Europe 2015. The panel was called „Opportunities in Continental Europe” and the video is now publicly available. Here is our summary of the key thoughts from the discussion: Institutional money is starting to flow into…

More than 750 attendees were visiting the largest online lending event in Europe - LendIt Europe 2015 - this week in London. The conference was split between platforms and investors and was represented with 45 countries, making it very diverse. We have summed up some of the takeaways for you. Institutional investors are increasingly more…

Traditional financial institutions do not serve the customer well when it comes to borrowing. In consumer borrowing, mainstream financial service providers tend to lack flexibility - not only in their opening hours, but in taking a very vertical view of a potential customer. This produces by necessity a black and white view - ‘good customers’…

Private investors Lars Wrobbel and Kolja Barghoorn have published a new book “Investieren in P2P-privatkredite” (Investing in P2P-lending). The book is mostly targeted for investors offering an overview of the opportunities that peer-to-peer lending offers. It encourages readers to get started by offering insights into P2P future analysis and strategies for a good profit. In…

It is over twenty years since Bill Gates famously said, “Banking is essential, banks are not”, and now it has started to happen -- traditional banking in the US could very soon lose $11 billion to alternative finance every year according to Goldman Sachs. Many old banks want a piece of the alternative finance growth…

‘Unicorn’, a favorite VC buzzword, has been steadily growing in search volume alongside ‘FinTech’ during the last few years. See Google Trends for comparison. This was the case even before Aileen Lee’s TechCrunch piece. The hunt for companies with >$1bn valuation has been on for a few years, and FinTech now has 36 of them…

The article by Bondora CEO and co-founder, Partel Tomberg, originally appeared in the European Credit Research Institute Newsletter. Marketplace lending will make universal banks obsolete by giving everyone the opportunity to provide capital directly to consumers and businesses. Every consumer and small business should have an option to find the best service provider for every…