Breaking News: Finansowo and Smava Poland Merge
P2P Lending services Smava und Finansowo.pl decided to join forces in the polish market. The deal took place on March 22nd; no details were announced. The new service will start in May, led by Rafal...
View ArticleKokos Issues Prepaid Card, Adds SMS Loans
Polish P2P lending market Kokos.pl announced today a new product – SMS loans coupled with prepaid MasterCard PayPass card. The product is targeted at borrowers who do not want to set up regular...
View ArticleP2P Lending Sites in Europe
Visualizations are great to show data that would otherwise just be a long list. I decided to create a map of the p2p lending landscape in Europe. It shows active and discontinued p2p lending services...
View ArticleInternational P2P Lending Services – Loan Volumes February 2014
Even though February was a short month, several p2p lending services topped their January loan volume. Even more impressive is the continued year on year growth. 3 more services were added to the...
View ArticleP2P Lending Service Lendico Launches in Poland
Today Lendico launched its p2p lending service in Poland. Poland is the third market Lendico serves, after Germany and Spain. Loan amounts can be between 1,000 and 50,000 PLN (approx 16,400 US$). Loan...
View ArticleP2P Lending in Poland and a Portrait of Kokos.pl
This is a guest post by Krystyna Mitręga-Niestrój, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland P2P lending develops quickly in the world in recent years. The platform Kokos.pl was the beginner at...
View ArticleLendico Announces Large Influx of Institutional Capital – Repositions in some...
German p2p lending service Lendico announced yesterday that an unnamed international hedge fund and 2 german banks will invest over 100 million Euro in loans on the Lendico marketplaces. The management...
View ArticleNew Twino CEO has Big Expansion Plans
On October 1st Jevgenijs Kazanins became new CEO of Latvian p2p lending marketplace Twino. He previously worked as CMO at Estonian p2p lending marketplace Bondora. Twino was launched in June and is...
View ArticleMintos Raises 2M from Skillion Ventures
Latvian p2p lending marketplace Mintos has raised 2M EUR from VC Skillion Ventures in Riga. The p2p lending service was launched a year ago and lists loans from several loan originators. The loan types...
View ArticleFellow Finance Expands to Poland
P2P lending marketplace Fellow Finance is now open for borrowers in Poland. Polish customers can now apply for peer-to-peer loans with maturity from 1 to 3 years up to 12 000 PLN. For Fellow Finance...
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