Category Archives: Peer-to-Peer Lending

New Crowdestor project – INCH2

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Crowdestor informed today that soon there will be a chance to invest in one of the fastest growing fashion brands in Northern Europe – INCH2.

Currently loan agreement between CROWDESTOR investors and INCH2 is being finalized, indicative loan conditions are expected to be as follows:

  • Project launch: 24.10.2018
  • Loan: EUR 100 000;
  • Term: 15-18 months;
  • Fixed interest rate: 17% per year;
  • Success interest rate cap: 5% per year;
  • Fixed interest payments: Fixed interest rate is paid monthly;
  • Success interest calculation and payment: if annual turnover in year 2019 exceeds 5 million EUR, 1% bonus is paid for each 1 million EUR above the base turnover (5 million EUR). Example, if turnover in 2019 is 7 million EUR investors receive 17% base interest rate + 2% bonus interest rate, if turnover in 2019 is 9 million EUR  investors receive 17% base interest rate + 4% bonus interest rate. Success interest is paid in the end of loan term together with principal payment. 

The company was founded by Olga and Edward Peterson. Olga as promising young architect and Edward with an expertise in online marketing started the brand in 2015.

Since day one INCH2 recognized the possibilities of e-commerce and started to look for ways to gather global audience using the latest online marketing technology and combining that with beautifully handcrafted shoe designs. INCH2 digital marketing campaigns reach around 20’000’000 people monthly and since foundation the company has sold more than 22’000 pairs of shoes generating 183’968 EUR in 2016, 1’651’505 EUR in 2017,  2’834’892 EUR by end of September 2018,  and expecting to reach around 5 million in sales by end of 2018  with top markets in the USA, Russia, Germany, UK and France.

These eye-catching, refined designs of INCH2 have propelled the brand to be recognized all around the globe and has achieved support of 700’000+ committed followers on Facebook and Instagram. This analysis-based online exposure combined with unique designs has no limits as to how far the brand can go.

Now INCH2 manufacturing is extended to Europe’s best shoemakers. The brand’s footwear is being produced in Portugal at the same facility as such well-known brands as KENZO, LANVIN, MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA, GIVENCHY and others.

As a rapidly growing start up business INCH2 faced a situation where demand for the shoes out-weighted previous production capacity as a result delivery time is around 2 months.
INCH2 is looking for an investment that would give the brand a possibility to expand their sales offline through the most desired prime shopping venues and to enlarge stock for the existing women’s collection as well as just launched men’s collection and bags. After entering retail channels and reducing delivery time for online orders by having a valid stock, it is predicted to have a huge increase of INCH2 loyal customer orders around the globe.

Grupeer will launch a new type of loan – amortizing loans

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Grupeer announced that today they will launch a new type of loan for investment! They will introduce amortizing loans by their trusted loan originator SIA Monify. One of Grupeer’s core competencies is diversification tools: geographical, loan type (real estate or business loans), and now loan repayment schedule.

How does it work?

Currently, the principal is returned back to the investor when the maturity date comes, and interest is calculated based on the total loan amount. The key difference of new amortizing loans is that principal repayment will take place over the loan period and interest is calculated from residual loan amount (total loan amount less principal repayments according to schedule).

Why is it good for investors?

Grupeer’s investors will be able to diversify held investment portfolio and considerably reduce credit risk. Credit risk is associated with the failure to return the principal at maturity. All Grupeer loans are protected by BuyBack guarantee- when loan originator is obliged to pay the principal and interest rate in case borrower defaults. However, there is still unlikely scenario that loan originator fails. In that case, Grupeer will facilitate the investment return by hiring a lawyer, who will represent the interest of all investors. However, this will take time and will cause inconvenience. So, with amortization loans, this risk is reduced.

The second benefit is a sooner availability of investment principal, which can be used for reinvestment. Setting up Auto-Invest function will automatically invest all money monthly received and will even further increase the return, as your money (which were sitting in the body of the loan) will be earning in the new project.

Please note, that because amortizing loans are a new product on the platform, auto-invest strategy can’t filter yet the amortizing loans vs. non-amortizing. So, if you do not wish your funds to be invested in the new type of loan, please disable the auto-invest temporarily.

New Envestio project – Crypto-mining Farm 200GTX1080ti – 2nd half

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Envestio informed today that a new investment opportunity is available at the portal to all registered participants.

By launching the project “Crypto-mining Farm 200GTX1080ti – 2nd half” (Project ID EN018051), by Baltreit SIA, an investment project owner that successfully completed several investment projects in the beginning of 2018, Envestio continues to expand the successful cooperation with the representatives of crypto-mining industry.

This loan is fully secured by mixed collateral and personal guarantee of the main beneficiary of Baltreit SIA.

As usual, you can invest any amount starting from 1 EUR. Minimum deposit to the investment account is EUR 100.

If you invest for the first time at Envestio don’t forget that you can get € 5 and a 0.5% cashback bonus for the investments made in the first nine months (270 days), more details HERE.

Investment opportunity

  • High-yielding investment in crypto-mining sector, financing of a crypto-mining hardware production process.
  • 22% planned annual return.
  • Investment principal buyback is available at 5% penalty rate.

Project description

Baltreit SIA is a company, established by IT professionals in order to conduct different operations on the crypto-mining market, such as assembling and selling crypto-mining hardware, direct crypto-mining using own hardware as well as management of crypto-mining farms, owned by external parties. The company is constantly introducing new approaches in order to make mining process more efficient and achieve high profitability even in changing environment, which is observed on the crypto-mining market in 2018.

Until either Volta or Turing comes along to replace it, the Nvidia GTX remains and will remain one of the most powerful graphics cards available in 2018. However, as good as it is a gaming GPU, it’s also an excellent mining GPU, but there are a few issues that stop it from ascending to the top of this list. For instance, it’s an extremely expensive GPU, and it draws more power compared to its competition. This means you’ll be getting less of a return on your investment, and it’ll take a while longer to cover your costs. However, if you don’t mind spending the extra cash for this GPU, (or if you want to game with the best graphics card around), then you’ll be happy with the results, as if you do a bit of tweaking you can reach a hash rate of 32 mh/s.TechRadar, September 2018

Interest payments to investors will be covered by the income from other Baltreit SIA projects. Repayment of principal will be made from the money, received from the purchaser of the equipment.

Baltreit SIA is looking for short-term bridge-financing amounting to EUR 75,000 for 6 months, necessary for purchasing and assembling a set of mining hardware that will be afterwards sold to one of the company’s clients. The whole order consists of 200 GTX 1080ti graphic processing units (GPUs) that will be set up inside special rigs of a custom construction. These rigs allow centralized management of the whole mining farm, effective cooling, and lower electricity consumption, resulting in higher net profit from one GPU. In their turn, aforementioned GPUs allow great operational flexibility, thus ensuring longer life cycle of the equipment built on their basis in comparison to specialized mining equipment that can mine only specific crypto-currencies.

Market

Cryptocurrency market currently experiences exponential growth with total capitalization exceeding EUR 220 billion in September, 2018. This is a rapid increase from beginning of the 2017, when gross capitalization amounted more than 10 times lower number, i.e. EUR 20 billion. The market remains highly volatile, however, the technology behind it is constantly developing and the involved number of important players is growing.

Bitcoin remains the leading currency on the market with around 54% of total capitalization value. It is followed by Etherium with 10% and Ripple on the third place with 8%.

An increasing number of traditional institutions such as central banks, stock exchanges, and even some governments are demonstrating increasing interest to the blockchain industry market.

Sample repayment schedule

  • 15.11.2018 – EUR 18.68
  • 15.12.2018 – EUR 18.08
  • 15.01.2019 – EUR 18.68
  • 15.02.2019 – EUR 18.68
  • 15.03.2019 – EUR 16.88
  • 15.04.2019 – EUR 1018.68

Total expected return: EUR 1 109.68

New investment project in Latvia announced by Bulkestate – Apartment in “Sun Terraces” – Launch 16 october 2018

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Bulkestate announced today that it is preparing to launch a new investment project in Latvia.

Launch time: Tuesday / 16 October 2018 / 17:00 (EEST)

Project information:

Interest rate: 16%
Investment target: 270,000 EUR
Loan period: 12 months
Loan to value: 70%
Security: Mortgage
For this project Bulkestate offers the following special incentive pay (cash-back) for investors by sharing part of its fee received from the client:

  • Investors making EUR 10,000 or larger investment will receive 1% incentive payment from the invested amount, while
  • Investors making EUR 25,000 or larger investment will receive 2% incentive payment from the invested amount.

FIREOF now offers risk categories for its loans listed on Mintos p2p lending platform

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Spanish mortgage lender FIREOF Management, which recently launched on Mintos, now offers investors the opportunity to invest in its loans by selecting them based on loan risk categories. The inclusion of the risk categories will allow investors to make more informed investment decisions.

FIREOF loans have a historical track record of 0% loss given default (LGD) and 0% bad debt rate due to the high loan-to-value ratio (average below 35%), thorough analysis of the borrowers and collateral as well as the personal guarantee provided for the loans. The risk of losing the principal has historically been very low and the main risk has been related to liquidity – locking in the investment during the court collection process which varies and averages 18 months.

FIREOF will provide loan risk ratings in each scoring category based on the predicted probability of default (PD) – assessment of the probability of loans becoming 90 days late when the court collections process is being initiated.

FIREOF Risk Categories


 Category (Score)        PD*             Interest rate to investor
AAA (1000-851) 0,63% – 0,70% 5,00% – 6,00%
AA  (850-701) 0,95% – 1,04% 5,50% – 6,50%
A (551-700) 3,76% – 4,15% 6,00% – 7,00%
BBB (500-551) 5,04% – 5,57% 6,50% – 7,50%
BB (451-500) 5,79% – 6,40%
B (331-450) 7,24% – 8,00%
C (0-330) 9,78% – 10,81%

* Probability of default (loans going into court collection, more than 90 days past due). Historically FIREOF has been able to recover 100% of principal for all defaulted loans.

FIREOF bases the risk categories on their scoring model that is being used to assess the riskiness of the loans they are issuing. Their scoring model, based on a FICO score (a type of credit score created by the Fair Isaac Corporation), has been specifically designed for the mortgage secured lending business in Spain. It takes into account various factors in three main areas to determine the credit quality: borrower profile, collateral liquidity and loan type risk.  

FIREOF takes into account the loan type risk (35% of score), collateral liquidity (35-40%) and borrower profile (25-30%) to determine the credit score for each loan. Scores range between 0 and 1 000. In general, scores above 550 indicate a good credit quality. In contrast, loans with scores below 500 mean the credit quality is inferior – borrowers might find it difficult to repay monthly instalments, the quality of the collateral is sub-optimal or the loan type holds a larger risk. Currently, FIREOF plans to offer only loans with category BBB and higher for investment to Mintos investors.

Loan Type Risk

In order to determine the loan type risk, different aspects of loan parameters are taken into account, including the amortization type, the term of the loan, APR charged to the borrower, loan amount and reason for taking the loan.

Collateral Liquidity

To reach an acceptable score for collateral, collateral type (internal liquidity), market size and liquidation price (external liquidity) are analysed together with government public ratios to measure the potential of selling the collateral in case the borrowers of FIREOF fail to repay their liabilities.

Loan to value (LTV) and loan to liquidation value (LTLV) are calculated on a principal cap basis. In addition, fraud detection triggers are deployed at an early stage.

Borrower Profile

As a general rule, borrower information is provided and analysed by the Spanish central bank. The information analysed includes the average default probability by age, debt to income ratio (DTI) and payment incident records in combination with the minimum income (of the borrower). The decision-making process is continuously improved based on past performance information

Established in 2015, FIREOF is an asset-secured lending business whose mission is to provide a financial bridge to Spanish consumers. FIREOF pursues a win-win relationship with their borrowers. The company is fully licensed and audited and it provides its credit products through established brokers.

New Envestio project – Renewal of freight containers – Tier 4

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Envestio informed today that a new investment opportunity is available at the portal to all registered participants.

By introducing the new Investment Project Owner “SRR” JSC with project “Renewal of freight containers – Tier 4″, Envestio expands the variety of industries available to invest in. “SRR” JSC has a long and successful experience of conducting logistics operations.

The loan is fully secured by mixed commercial pledge and personal guarantee of the main beneficiaries of “SRR” JSC.

As usual, you can invest any amount starting from 1 EUR. Minimum deposit to the investment account is EUR 100.

If you invest for the first time at Envestio don’t forget that you can get € 5 and a 0.5% cashback bonus for the investments made in the first nine months (270 days), more details HERE.

Investment opportunity

  • High-yielding investment in logistics industry, financing of technical inspection and repair/renewal works for freight containers.
  • Secured debt, 21% planned annual return.
  • Investment principal buyback is available at 5% penalty rate.

Project description

The JSC SRR was established in Riga, Latvia in the year 2007. JSC SRR is a member of FIATA, LAFF, LTBA, CCTP, holds ISO 9001:2008 certificate, and employs 64 people.

Company’s key assets include 950 x 20’ and 450 х 40’ containers as well as 825 railroad platforms.

The main fields of company’s activity are:

  • Multimodal transportation and integrated railway solutions for metallurgical companies and industrial manufacturers
  • Handling of container trains
  • Optimizing use of rolling stock and providing own containers
  • Warehousing of various types of cargo
  • Regular feeder container line Rotterdam-Riga-Ust-Luga-St. Petersburg-Rotterdam

The company is looking to conduct a round of technical inspection and repair/renewal works for all its containers, used for freight operations. The total cost of the project is estimated to be EUR 650,000. Envestio participants will have a chance to finance this project in several tranches of moderate size, according to the number of containers submitted for inspection and further proceedings in a single batch.

Market

Consolidated figures show that during the year 2017 the global market for transportation of goods using freight containers increased by more than 6% in relation to 2016. Last time so high market growth rates were observed more than 6 years ago – in the year 2011. Overall demand for China-Europe-America freight routes in 2017 increased rapidly due to China’s GDP 6,9% growth that was almost 0,5% higher than anticipated growth of 6,5%. At the same time, also the freight rates in 2017 swiftly recovered from downfall, experienced in 2016.

Further development of the global market is largely dependent on the extent at which current expansion plans of the biggest container lines are realized as well as on the development dynamics of the international trade. Bearing in mind increasing ambiguity on the global markets, caused by geopolitical shifts combined with high growth rates the key factor for success is the ability to manage both own and freighted assets in the most efficient and flexible way.

From the regional perspective the biggest increase in volumes was achieved in the North America (+12,6%), followed by Latin America (+11,1%), China (+10,3%), and Europe (+4,4%).

Sample repayment schedule

Envestio participant’s investment – EUR 1 000.00
Payments:

  • 15.11.2018 – EUR 17.84
  • 15.12.2018 – EUR 17.26
  • 15.01.2019 – EUR 17.84
  • 15.02.2019 – EUR 17.84
  • 15.03.2019 – EUR 16.11
  • 15.04.2019 – EUR 17.84
  • 15.05.2019 – EUR 17.26
  • 15.06.2019 – EUR 1017.84

Total expected return: EUR 1 139.83

DoFinance peer-to-peer lending platform overview

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A subsidiary of the Alfa Finance Group, DoFinance is a platform providing web P2P platform operations which, thanks to innovative financial technologies, offer easy, secure and smart way of borrowing money or investing available financial resources and earning money in a manner that offers an alternative to traditional opportunities such as conservative bank deposits or risky stock markets.

The global online lending and investment management company Alfa Finance Group was founded in 2015, when brothers Viesturs and Jānis Kuļikovskis decided to pool their knowledge and experience. Alfa Finance has a strong idea they both share – creating original and modern finance services so that anyone can become his or her own personal investor and financial director in a safe, easy and smart way.

Their business essence is consumer loans and P2P investment platform services for private individuals. In less than two years, they have successfully expanded to Poland, Georgia and Indonesia, with a total of more than 150,000 registered clients and over EUR 16 million in loans issued as financing. The Alfa Finance Group is growing all the time, and in the next few years, they plan to develop their operations in other European and Asian markets.

Who can invest?

In order to invest in DoFinance platform you must be at least 18 years old, have a valid e-mail address, valid documents (passport or identification card) and bank account within the European Union, Switzerland or any other country of the EEZ, which is not included in the lists of high risk and non-cooperative jurisdictions or is not subject of international sanctions. For complete registration you will have to provide a national identification card (scanned or photographed both sides) or passport (scanned or photographed).

Companies can also register. When registering as a company you need to select the option “Company”, need to fill in the form with the necessary information and upload the company registration certificate or extract from the company register.

DoFinance doesn’t tax accrued interest therefore investor receives full amount. In addition regarding taxes – profits earned in DoFinance are tax object and  by taking into account the legislation of the country where the investor is resident (for tax purpose perspective). Actions related with payment of taxes are on investor’s responsibility. At the end of the year we do provide account statement specifying interest received.

Loan types

DoFinance offers you the chance to invest in short-term consumer loans and recommends using one of Auto Invest plans depending on your desired return rate, term and flexibility. 

You can choose to invest in loans with a term ranging from 1 day up to 60 months.

Investing

There are 3 simple steps – register, add documents and add funds (starting from 10 euro). When you have added money in your investor’s account, you can start investing. They recommend you to use some of DoFinance Auto Invest plans. The DoFinance automation tool creates an investment portfolio based on your preferred term, amount of money and interest rate. If you use the Manual Investment option, they suggest splitting your investment up into several loans, to diversify your portfolio.

On DoFinance there are no investment limits for individual investors. But in accordance with DoFinance Anti-money Laundering procedure, investors who wil exceed 15 000 euro and 50 000 euro limits, will be asked for some additional data.

There are no fees for investing.

The Auto Invest tool is free of charge and is an easy-to-invest, easy-to-manage and automation tool for diversifying your investment portfolio. Auto Investing means that a person entrusts the distribution of the money invested and the same investment in the DoFinance system.

The BuyBack guarantee is a guarantee issued by the loan originator to the investor for a particular loan. It confirms that the loan originator will repurchase the loan from investor if repayment of that particular loan is delayed. The BuyBack guarantee is applied for all loans in DoFinance system. It starts on the first day after the end date of the investment. We call it Instant BuyBack.

Withdrawals

Withdrawals depends on your selected investment plan. With Auto Invest it’s possible to cancel all programs:

5% plan – you can receive your money 7 days after your request including accumulated interest.

7% plan – you can receive your money 30 days after your request with 5% interest or 60 days after your request including accumulated 7% interest.

9% plan – you can receive your earned interests each 30 days after investment (automatic monthly interest repayment) or principal amount 90 days after your request without interest.

If your account is less than 10 Eur, then you must transfer the entire amount at a time.

It is not possible to cancel investments that are made with the Manual Invest option.

 

New Envestio project – Crypto-mining Farm 200GTX1080ti

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Envestio informed today that a new investment opportunity is available at the portal to all registered participants.

By launching the project “Crypto-mining Farm 200GTX1080ti” (Project ID EN018049), by Baltreit SIA, an investment project owner that successfully completed several investment projects in the beginning of 2018, Envestio continues to expand the successful cooperation with the representatives of crypto-mining industry.

This loan is fully secured by mixed collateral and personal guarantee of the main beneficiary of Baltreit SIA.

As usual, you can invest any amount starting from 1 EUR. Minimum deposit to the investment account is EUR 100.

If you invest for the first time at Envestio don’t forget that you can get € 5 and a 0.5% cashback bonus for the investments made in the first nine months (270 days), more details HERE.

Investment opportunity

  • High-yielding investment in crypto-mining sector, financing of a crypto-mining hardware production process.
  • 22% planned annual return.
  • Investment principal buyback is available at 5% penalty rate.

Project description

Baltreit SIA is a company, established by IT professionals in order to conduct different operations on the crypto-mining market, such as assembling and selling crypto-mining hardware, direct crypto-mining using own hardware as well as management of crypto-mining farms, owned by external parties. The company is constantly introducing new approaches in order to make mining process more efficient and achieve high profitability even in changing environment, which is observed on the crypto-mining market in 2018.

Until either Volta or Turing comes along to replace it, the Nvidia GTX remains and will remain one of the most powerful graphics cards available in 2018. However, as good as it is a gaming GPU, it’s also an excellent mining GPU, but there are a few issues that stop it from ascending to the top of this list. For instance, it’s an extremely expensive GPU, and it draws more power compared to its competition. This means you’ll be getting less of a return on your investment, and it’ll take a while longer to cover your costs. However, if you don’t mind spending the extra cash for this GPU, (or if you want to game with the best graphics card around), then you’ll be happy with the results, as if you do a bit of tweaking you can reach a hash rate of 32 mh/s.TechRadar, September 2018

Interest payments to investors will be covered by the income from other Baltreit SIA projects. Repayment of principal will be made from the money, received from the purchaser of the equipment.

Baltreit SIA is looking for short-term bridge-financing amounting to EUR 75,000 for 6 months, necessary for purchasing and assembling a set of mining hardware that will be afterwards sold to one of the company’s clients. The whole order consists of 200 GTX 1080ti graphic processing units (GPUs) that will be set up inside special rigs of a custom construction. These rigs allow centralized management of the whole mining farm, effective cooling, and lower electricity consumption, resulting in higher net profit from one GPU. In their turn, aforementioned GPUs allow great operational flexibility, thus ensuring longer life cycle of the equipment built on their basis in comparison to specialized mining equipment that can mine only specific crypto-currencies.

Market

Cryptocurrency market currently experiences exponential growth with total capitalization exceeding EUR 220 billion in September, 2018. This is a rapid increase from beginning of the 2017, when gross capitalization amounted more than 10 times lower number, i.e. EUR 20 billion. The market remains highly volatile, however, the technology behind it is constantly developing and the involved number of important players is growing.

Bitcoin remains the leading currency on the market with around 54% of total capitalization value. It is followed by Etherium with 10% and Ripple on the third place with 8%.

An increasing number of traditional institutions such as central banks, stock exchanges, and even some governments are demonstrating increasing interest to the blockchain industry market.

Sample repayment schedule

Envestio participant’s investment – EUR 1 000.00
Payments:

  • 11.11.2018 – EUR 18.68
  • 11.12.2018 – EUR 18.08
  • 11.01.2019 – EUR 18.68
  • 11.02.2019 – EUR 18.68
  • 11.03.2019 – EUR 16.88
  • 11.04.2019 – EUR 1018.68

Total expected return: EUR 1 109.68

IuteCredit now offers loans from Kosovo for investment on Mintos p2p marketplace

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IuteCredit has yet again expanded its investment offering on Mintos by placing its consumer loans issued in Kosovo on the marketplace. This is in addition to the loans that were already available for investment from IuteCredit in Albania and Moldova.

IuteCredit Group was founded in 2008 and operates in Moldova, Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo. The Group has a net loan portfolio of EUR 30 million and has helped more than 200 000 customers. It aims to create the extraordinary experience in personal finance, by exceeding customer´s expectations.

The average Kosovo-issued loan on Mintos from IuteCredit will be EUR 400 with a repayment period of 8 months. The expected return for investors will be up to 11%. As Kosovo has adopted the Euro (EUR) as its official currency,  the loans by IuteCredit are offered in its local currency on the marketplace.

To align its interests with those of investors, IuteCredit will retain 10% of each loan placed on Mintos on its balance sheet. All Kosovo-issued loans from IuteCredit will come with a buyback guarantee and the company will undertake the obligations of repurchasing delinquent loans.

IuteCredit started its operations in Kosovo in November of 2017 and is regulated by the central bank of Kosovo. It is currently one of the alternative finance market leaders in the country. Since its inception, more than 8 000 loans have been issued in Kosovo worth more than EUR 3.5 million. As at the end of August 2018 its net loan portfolio in the country is EUR 2.2 million.

The Republic of Kosovo is Europe’s youngest country as it declared its independence from Serbia on February 17, 2008. According to the World Bank, during 2009 to 2017 real GDP grew on average by 3.5% each year. According to Investment Climate Statements for 2017, in 2016, the country ratified a strategic investment law. This was in order to ease market access for investors in key sectors.

To obtain exposure to IuteCredit Kosovo loans, investors will be able to invest in loans issued by Mintos Finance to IuteCredit Kosovo, where repayments depend on the borrower’s payments. Each loan issued by Mintos Finance to IuteCredit Kosovo will be pegged to a respective loan issued by IuteCredit Kosovo to the final borrower. Mintos Finance is a Mintos group company.

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