{"id":195156,"date":"2015-12-22T13:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bondora.com\/blog\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2015-12-22T13:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T11:07:58","slug":"its-a-wrap-thanks-for-the-great-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/blog\/its-a-wrap-thanks-for-the-great-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a wrap &#8211; thanks for the great 2015!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another action-packed year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/en\">here at Bondora<\/a>. We want to thank everyone for being part and making our community of 12,242 investors and 243,062 borrowers. We had quite a few memorable moments this year and here is a selection we wanted to highlight for you. Happy holidays and enjoy the highlights!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2357 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-2015-wrap-up.jpg\" alt=\"2015 wrap up\" width=\"629\" height=\"709\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2015:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We processed 421 M EUR worth of loan applications<\/li>\n<li>Our investors funded 24 M EUR worth of loans<\/li>\n<li>19% is the average net return for loans originated<\/li>\n<li>52,370 people applied for a loan<\/li>\n<li>4,107 investors made investments<\/li>\n<li>New bankruptcy remote legal structure rolled out to reduce operational and compliance risks for both retail and institutional investors<\/li>\n<li>First global institutional investors started lending on Bondora<\/li>\n<li>We applied for full authorization from UK&#8217;s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Estonia\u2019s Financial Supervision Authority (FSA)<\/li>\n<li>We opened up Bondora platform to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crowdfundinsider.com\/2015\/10\/76079-brief-bondora-opens-european-personal-loan-marketplace-platform-to-u-s-accredited-investors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. accredited investors<\/a> after receiving authorization from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)<\/li>\n<li>Bondora wins an award at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altfi.com\/awards\/2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AltFi Awards 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis award is proof of the hard work our team has been doing over the past years in building up a loan origination, credit scoring and servicing process that works across borders\u201d, says P\u00e4rtel Tomberg, CEO of Bondora.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol start=\"11\">\n<li>Our engineering team made 49 major and 150 minor product releases for both borrowers and investors<\/li>\n<li>New dashboard and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/en\/portfolio-manager\">fully automated Portfolio Manager<\/a> launched for making investments easier for our retail investors<\/li>\n<li>First public Application Program Interface (API) in Europe launched catered for the most active investors<\/li>\n<li>Bondora Rating introduced in January which delivers net returns in line with targets on 98% of the cases<\/li>\n<li>Bondora Rating 2.0 introduced in December to further improve risk-return performance<\/li>\n<li>New organizational structure was implemented to give better support for our growing investor base<\/li>\n<li>New Bondora character makes her first statement<\/li>\n<li>We have 55 experts from 4 different nationalities working in our office<\/li>\n<li>Our support team handled 114,538 tickets this year<\/li>\n<li>Estonian, English, Russian, Finnish and Spanish are the languages spoken by our support team<\/li>\n<li>14 Developer Club events held for our team<\/li>\n<li>6,251 code commits were implemented by our engineering team<\/li>\n<li>Bondorians are a healthy bunch \u2013 we have eaten 2,600 kg of fresh fruits this year<\/li>\n<li>Our management team gave 12 presentations on global stages about the P2P industry<\/li>\n<li>75 cakes were ordered for office celebrations &#8211; no need to mention that we love big and small celebrations here!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another action-packed year here at Bondora. 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