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Bondora?

Started by Peter, July 26, 2015, 11:00:00 PM

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Fred93

Anyone have thoughts about Bondora?  http://www.bondora.com" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.bondora.com

They are in Estonia.  I've never invested in anything in Estonia before.  Seems like a pretty exotic location, although Estonia is part of the EU. 

Looks like they have good data disclosure, which is rare.

Edited to add: I do see there is considerable discussion of Bondora on the wiseclerk forum.

Tauri

Hi Fred93!

I am investing in Bondora (and also some other P2P lending sites in Estonia, there are 6 of them currently up and running). If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

For the records:
* I'm not working for Bondora
* I'm exotic estonian https://forum.lendacademy.com/Smileys/default/smiley.gif" alt=":)" title="Smiley" class="smiley" />
* Actually we are not that exotic at all

rawraw

What currency is the payments in?  And is there any incentive to go to Estonia instead of LC/Prosper?

TravelingPennies

Hi rawraw

Estonia is in the eurozone, which means that we are using euro as our currency (Estonia has been on euro since january 2011). While Bondora is operating currently in 4 (3) markets: Estonia (population of 1,3mio), Finland (5,5mio), Spain (46,6mio) and Slovakia (5,4mio - Slovakia is currently inactive due to less quality borrowers), all of those markets euro has been adopted so the only currency risk for foreign investors is EUR/USD when you are outside eurozone.

Bondora average return has been around 20% per year, this mainly because of Estonian people (currently 50-60% of the applications come from Estonia, Spain and Finland are almost equal with 20-30%) hasn't had too good access to money. So the interest rates are somewhat higher than you can expect from loans in US. For example average rate is 20-35%, depending on a credit group.
I myself believe that returns will fall in some near future (Bondora is negotiating with different institutional investors to take them on board). Also the whole credit model was redesinged in the beginning of this year giving more fairer options for both lenders and investors.
Should you be interested in Bondora? Yes, why not. But perhaps only with 5-10% of your portfolio. That would be my take on it.

wiseclerk_com

Fred and rawraw,

my coverage on Bondora on my P2P-Banking.com blog is here
http://www.p2p-banking.com/tag/bondora/" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">http://www.p2p-banking.com/tag/bondora/

Every 3-4 months I do an update on how my portfolio is doing (I transfered 14,000 Euro in over time - at the moment I have about 20,600 Euro outstanding principal).


P.S.: I believe for US residents you have to have accredited investor status to participate. For European residents it is open to any retail investors.


TravelingPennies

Yes, you'll have to submit documents

twigster

Hmmmm -- sounds interesting.  I just went to register on their web site to get more info.

Here is one interesting thing.  They ask for an IBAN account number on the personal details page.   I take it this means that one must have a EU denominated account in some Euro zone country (that uses the IBAN standard), correct?

TravelingPennies


Kombinator

Fred, interesting, thanks for sharing, would love to hear how it goes for you.  BTW, on the subject of gettign a European EURO denominated account, once yu do, if you could share the hoops to jump through would be much appreciated.

PhilGD

Has anyone checked out their data disclosure? They provide so much info about their borrowers that we don't get from Lending Club (I'm not experienced with Prosper). They even tell you the age and marital status. I also like the way they break out borrowers' income. Their data seems to be much more granular than what we have over here.

Fred

Are there credit report agencies in Estonia, Finland, Spain?  I don't see them listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_bureau.
What are borrowers consequences for being late or in default?

TravelingPennies


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