{"id":8563,"date":"2017-06-28T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bondora.com\/blog\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2017-06-28T17:40:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:40:22","slug":"bondora-portfolio-update-common-myths-of-p2p-lending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/blog\/bondora-portfolio-update-common-myths-of-p2p-lending\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondora portfolio update, common myths of P2P lending and finance news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h2>POSTS FROM PAST WEEK<\/h2>\n<h3><a style=\"color: #458cc0;font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/bondora-portfolio-performance-june-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bondora portfolio performance \u2013 June 2017<\/a><\/h3>\n<p align=\"left\">On yesterdays portfolio performance overview, we saw that the realized returns for 2017 have had a strong start so far, with 19.80% for Q1. The early Q1 indicators for this year suggest we\u2019re on track to deliver a fourth consecutive year of improved total realised net returns.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a style=\"font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 16px;padding: 12px 18px;color: white;background-color: #458cc0;border-radius: 4px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/bondora-portfolio-performance-june-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about it<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a style=\"color: #458cc0;font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/weekly-industry-news-roundup-june-26-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weekly industry news roundup \u2013 June 26, 2017<\/a><\/h3>\n<p align=\"left\">American Banker published a piece suggesting that marketplace lenders should refrain from attempting to replicate the practices of traditional banks.<br \/>\nLend Academy took an interesting look at the state of marketplace lending in Japan.<br \/>\nINC. took a look at Amazon\u2019s growing presence in the marketplace lending world. The monolithic company started lending in 2011 and \u201chas surpassed $3 billion in loans to small businesses.\u201d<br \/>\nNasdaq reviewed which loans can help expand a small business. The article is a good introductory guide to what a small business will need in preparing to apply for a loan.<br \/>\nThe Huffington Post article splits apart different sectors of the alternatiive lending market and examines how each has grown in recent years.<br \/>\nGerman article by Deutsche Handwerks Zeitung cited Bondora among alternative financial services that enable borrowing or lending money without turning to banks.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a style=\"font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 16px;padding: 12px 18px;color: white;background-color: #458cc0;border-radius: 4px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/weekly-industry-news-roundup-june-26-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about it<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a style=\"color: #458cc0;font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/myths-about-p2p-lending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myths and misconceptions about P2P lending<\/a><\/h3>\n<p align=\"left\">In this post we looked at the most common myths and misconceptions about P2P lending:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>P2P lending is an unregulated \u201cFree for All\u201d<\/li>\n<li>P2P lending is dangerous because you don\u2019t know who you\u2019re lending to<\/li>\n<li>Measuring risk adequately in P2P lending is impossible<\/li>\n<li>P2P lending and traditional banks are at war<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nFor each myth, we explain why they are incorrect misrepresentations of the P2P lending market.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a style=\"font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 16px;padding: 12px 18px;color: white;background-color: #458cc0;border-radius: 4px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/myths-about-p2p-lending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more about it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POSTS FROM PAST WEEK Bondora portfolio performance \u2013 June 2017 On yesterdays portfolio performance overview, we saw that the realized returns for 2017 have had a strong start so far, with 19.80% for Q1. The early Q1 indicators for this year suggest we\u2019re on track to deliver a fourth consecutive year of improved total realised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bondora-news"],"acf":[],"featured_image":null,"categories_names":["News"],"category_name":"News","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}