Bulkestate announced today that it is preparing to launch a new investment project in Latvia.
The second phase of the project ‘Barona Dainas’ follows as the borrower has successfully completed the purchase of the property.
Investment target: 50,000 EUR
Loan period: 12 months
Future loan to value: 33%
Security: Equity
Mintos peer-to-peer lending marketplace have re-launched the Refer-a-Friend Program for a limited period of time.
In order to get the 1% bonus a promo code must be entered in the “Promo code” field during registration.
Mintos will then reward both us and you with 1% of your invested amount. The reward will be calculated based on your average daily invested balance over a 3-month period – 30, 60, and 90 days after the registration date – and paid in three instalments.
For example, we refer Sara, who starts investing in loans via Mintos marketplace. After 30 days, the average balance Sara has invested over the period is EUR 3 500. Mintos will credit 1% of EUR 3 500 (EUR 35) to our investor account, and another EUR 35 to Sara’s investor account. After 60 and 90 days, Mintos will review the average invested balance again and, if it increases, credit both our and Sara’s investor account accordingly.
For other bonuses visit our Cash-back & Bonuses page.
Fast Invest is an innovative FinTech company that offers its customers the chance to invest in consumer-based loans issued in European countries. All loans in the marketplace come with Buyback and Default Guarantees.
They firmly believe that everyone should be given access to the digital investment world. Technology has evolved so much over the past few years creating a smoother, faster and more reliable money flow. Their mission is to enable cross-border investing for every European citizen. The goal is to achieve this by building a stable, secure platform that makes it possible for users to invest in different countries, loan types and loan originators. Users can select from the pool of listed loans and invest in those that match their preferences.
Fast Invest’s business model provides access to investors and makes secure investing simple and accessible for anyone interested in investments and innovative ways of earning. Users can select from the pool of listed loans and invest in the one’s meeting their preferences, earning up to 14% in interest.
Fast Invest can offer better terms than traditional banks because they exclude unnecessary intermediaries from the process, thus allowing investors to save money that would have been otherwise spent on commissions and fees for third party services.
Overall FinTech (Financial Technology) companies are more flexible in terms of rates and operational costs than other organisations in the traditional banking sector. FinTech companies operate in diverse groups and incur fewer expenses than the traditional banking sector, thus providing the opportunity to give back more significant returns to the people.
*NOTE: The investor must confirm his/her identity in order to request the immediate withdrawal of funds from the Fast Invest account to a personal bank account.
Investors must be at least 18 years old, have a valid email address and a personal bank account in their name in the European Union.
For the identification purposes, you must provide a national identification card (scanned or photographed both sides) or a passport (scanned or photographed).
There are three steps for Fast Invest client verification:
Companies cannot register with Fast Invest platform, or make investments.
Right now, the platform provides consumer-based loans issued across the European Union.
All listed loans are 100% pre-funded by the Loan Originator. Moreover, the Loan Originator keeps at least a 5% stake in every single deal, proving they have “skin in the game”.
On the Loan List, you can manually filter all listed loans, and manually pick the ones aligning with your preferences by determining: term, currency, amount, interest rate, and loan origin.
By using Auto Invest, you can create a portfolio, specifying specific parameters (portfolio size, maximum investment per loan, projected interest, time to maturity, etc.). Afterwards, the A.I. system will automatically select loans that meet your specified criteria and invests in available funds continuously. You can alter the settings or stop the portfolio at any time by visiting the Auto Invest portfolio list in your account.
You can check your investment portfolio at any time from the My Investment page or check the Account Statement page for full information on account transactions.
Auto Invest loans are marked with the symbol.
What is the buyback guarantee?
If you decide to stop investing in the selected loan and sell the investment (at any time before the scheduled full payment date), Fast Invest will buy back your investment in 1 business day, guaranteed.
To sell your investment, just log in to your Fast Invest account, click the My Investment section, select the loan you would like to sell and click “sell”. After the Account Management Support Team has approved it, you will receive the funds in your Fast Invest investors account.*
*Note: always remember, when selling your investment ahead of time you will lose all interest earned through the process. However, you will get your invested funds back. An icon indicates these payments secured by the BuyBack Guarantee.
What is the default guarantee?
If a payment instalment is overdue by 3 (three) or more days, the Default Guarantee will settle the arrears. The icon 
will mark these payments as paid by the Default Guarantee.
On the Fast Invest platform, there are no investment limits for individual investors. You can start investing with 1 Euro.
How does the currency exchange work?
The Fast Invest platform supports 4 fiat currencies – European Euro (EUR), United States Dollar (USD), United Kingdom Pound (GBP) and Polish Zloty (PLN).
The currency exchange is a simple and easy process.
Currency exchange rates are calculated via rates from the European Central Bank.
In Envestio portfolio you will find some projects wich are located in Baltic States. Is it safe to invest in these projects? First of all it depends on economic growth and economic growth forecasts in these countries.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as open economies gain profit from rapid cyclic acceleration and growth of world trade. Based on the IMF World Economy report, it is expected that annual growth both in 2018 and in 2019 will achieve record of seven years or 3.9%. Global recovery currently happens much more steadily and has solidified all over the world, besides global entrepreneurship confidence level is record high, which respectively affects further rise of the internal demand an d improves the labour market.
Only geopolitical tension and risk of political uncertainty are two factors that may cause potentially negative effect on total positive external demand of the Baltic States. Despite strong prospective of growth, Europe is directly affected by Brexit. However, direct influence of the United Kingdom’s trade links on the Baltic States still remains limited. Speaking about risks, conflicts about trade can also decrease record high level of economic optimism and global trade.
Unusually powerful rise is forecasted for the Baltic States, providing that the growth rate will only normalize starting from 2019.
On the favourable external background, in the last year Estonia and Latvia achieved growth rate of over 4% (4.9 % and 4.5 % compared to the previous year, respectively), and Lithuania showed stable annual growth of GDP – 3.8 %. Similarly to other countries of the Eurozone, cyclic recovery has gained speed, and it is forecasted that the biggest contribution to the growth of countries in the next year will be provided by the domestic demand.
Eurozone annual growth in 2018 will be 2.3%, it supports the growth rate in the Baltic States that will be above the maintained long-term rate, however it will gradually slow down due to basic effects and exhausting of yet unused reserves of resources. It is expected that export growth from the initial powerful acceleration will come to the normal level and will include both products and services, providing that increased growth will take place exactly in sector of services. Growth restrictions will first be reflected in the labour market, while lack of qualified labour grows.
Economic bases of the Baltic States are still stable, finances of the countries are almost balanced and public debt levels are the lowest in the whole Eurozone. Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian main future challenges mostly are of structural nature and are related to challenges in acceleration of productivity and growth of added value.
Baltic States will still be ones of the most rapidly growing Eurozone countries, with shrinking significant income difference compared to the European trade partners.
In this long-term adventure we must avoid temptations in respect of excessive domestic stimuli. Quite the other way, long-term growth is based upon complex choices, for instance, in the smart specialization, development of innovations and technologies, in order to promote export and profit. Increase of research and development (R&D) expenses in the private sector, strengthening of the ecosystem of small and medium companies and new companies and especially investments in human capital are examples of modern solutions that must be further used, in order to gain maximum benefit from the next decade’s global technological and digital bull race. Revenue of sectors of globalized technologies will still exceed forecasts.
Today we can say with confidence that investments in real estates of the Baltic region are the most profitable and efficient way to not only keep, but also multiply cash assets.
Situation in Europe also slowly improves. Stress caused by the refugee crisis decreases, besides economic factors of the European countries also slowly improve. Since main investors in the Baltic States come from the EU countries, their opinion of further growth prospective has increased and optimism slowly grows. In truth the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU is still ahead. However, it will probably cause investors to look for new places to invest money and create new companies in the EU. And one of the most prospective opportunities is the Baltic region.
Latvia still has many unused opportunities to invest in housing – Luminor bank has expressed its opinion at the conference “How will real estate market develop in Latvia?”.
Approximately 85% of homes in Latvia are not encumbered with credits, this means that opportunities to borrow for investments in housing are wide. Compare – for instance, in the Netherlands all homes have mortgage liabilities. In the Eurozone average proportion of mortgage loans to the gross domestic product is 40%, and in the Baltic States – just 16%. In turn, ability of the Baltic residents to purchase homes is assessed as good.
Housing market in Estonia and Lithuania is currently close to maturity, while in Latvia activity in the housing market is still quite slack. In turn, crediting cycle is relatively new and will only gain speed.
The whole Baltic Sea region currently sees rapid growth, and from the point of view economics this is a good time to invest in the Baltic region’s projects and gain from it guaranteed profit.
Investors who used Mintos to invest in the loans of ID Finance Kazakhstan, denominated in Kazakhstani tenge, received returns in EUR terms 7.2% above the declared rate due to appreciation of the Kazakhstan tenge (KZT) against the Euro (EUR). Moreover, investors received a 17% annual interest as investment earnings – one of the highest rates on Mintos. This return rate is normally 10.5% for investments in EUR.
ID Finance Kazakhstan has been working with Mintos since April 12, 2018. In one and a half months, the exchange rate of KZT against the EUR has increased by 7.2%. This means that investors at Mintos gained almost a 10% holding period yield.
“The high yield of this instrument is explained by fundamental factors: the main force behind the growth of the KZT is oil prices, which have been increasing throughout the whole year, and this is a long-term trend,” explains Alexander Pak, CFO of ID Finance in Kazakhstan.
He adds that the advantage of investing in KZT is that alongside a high nominal yield investors may gain optional profits due to currency appreciation.
Alexander Pak says that by using Mintos, ID Finance is planning to fund loans worth EUR 6 million on an outstanding basis before the end of the year, with 40% of that sum in the national currency of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The historical performance of KZT does not predict its movements in the future and the FX gain is not in any way predictable or even more so guaranteed.
Placet Group is a leading non-bank credit provider in Estonia that issues secured and unsecured loans to individuals and legal entities with a focus on personal and short-term loans. The group was established in 2005 and launched its first brand on the Estonian market in 2007. Since then the group has launched additional brands in Estonia and started issuing loans in Lithuania in 2011 and Poland in 2015. The group prioritises an individual approach to customers, a high-quality service and operational efficiency and transparency.
Now you have the opportunity to invest on Mintos peer-to-peer lending marketplace in personal loans issued in Estonia. In Estonia, the company issues its loans under its brands smsmoney.ee, smsraha.ee, laen.ee . Take advantage of this great opportunity to earn net annual returns of up to 10% now.
Placet Group is a well-established non-bank finance lender. It started its operations more than a decade ago in 2005 and launched its first brand in Estonia in 2007. Since then, the group has launched more brands in Estonia and started its operations in Lithuania and Poland. It aims to give its customers an individual approach, high-quality and fast service and transparency. These values have attracted over 125 000 unique customers in Estonia.
“We have been watching Mintos for a long time and the marketplace has demonstrated rapid growth and has achieved magnificent success in the investment market. We know success does not come without effort and the team behind Mintos is made up of hard-working professionals. In Mintos, we see a strong, reliable and professional partner in investments and with the help of the marketplace, we plan to increase our market share and also consider the possibility of entering new credit markets,” says Gennadi Krotov, CEO of Placet Group OÜ.
The average Estonia-issued personal loan from Placet Group on Mintos is around EUR 500, the total range of loans from the company on the marketplace is EUR 100 to EUR 7 500. The repayment period ranges from 30 days up to 5 years, although 30 days to one year is the most common repayment period. You can expect a net annual return of up to 10%.
All loans from Placet Group come with the buyback guarantee. This means, if a loan is delinquent for more than 60 days the loan originator will repurchase the loan. The company will also keep 5% skin in the game, to ensure its interests align with those of investors. Placet Group has a history of low delinquency rates. The percentage of its loan portfolio that is delinquent is around 5%.
Placet Group is well capitalised with an equity-to-assets ratio of 73% and since 2007, has disbursed around 550 000 loans in Estonia worth EUR 180 million. At the end of 2017, its net loan portfolio in Estonia amounted to EUR 15 million while achieving a turnover of EUR 6.2 million and a profit of EUR 2 million. The company expects stable growth and profits for future years in its home market.
Mogo, the largest non-bank car loan financer in the Baltics, has yet again increased its offering to investors on Mintos! The company has added its car loans from Moldova for investment with expected net annual returns of up to 14% – so don’t miss out!
In terms of loans funded, Mogo is one of the largest loan originators on Mintos. The company was established in 2012 in Latvia and joined Mintos in March 2015 and it currently offers investment opportunities in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and now Moldova. The company began issuing loans in Moldova from September 2017. To date, Mogo Moldova has issued 903 loans worth EUR 3.8 million loans in the country. Mogo prides itself on its fast service and open communication, which fosters long-term relationships with its customers, and as a result, it has attracted 821 active clients in Moldova already.
“We have had a very long-standing and fruitful cooperation with Mintos at the Mogo Group level so having also Mogo Moldova on the marketplace is a logical step. We believe this will allow us to increase our operations in Moldova and better serve our clients, whilst also give investors on Mintos more investment opportunities,” says Maris Kreics, Chief Financial Officer.
The average Moldova-issued car loan from Mogo is EUR 4 300, with an average repayment period of 53 months. You can expect net annual returns of up to 14%.
To maintain its skin in the game, Mogo will keep 5% of each loan. All Moldova-issued car loans from the company are secured with a buyback guarantee meaning all loans that are delinquent for 60 days or more will be bought back by Mogo. Some of the equity investors in Mogo and Mintos overlap.
As of December 31, 2017, Mogo Group’s net loan portfolio was more than EUR 100 million, a more than 50% increase compared to December 31, 2016. In 2017, turnover for the company amounted to EUR 40 million. Since its inception, Mogo Group has originated more than 91 thousand loans worth EUR 250 million.
Viventor is happy to announce another partnership with a new loan originator from Poland – Aforti Factor SA.
Established in the beginning of 2018 Aforti Factor SA is one of the fastest growing non-bank invoice financing providers in Poland. The company is backed by Aforti Holding, a well-known Polish financial services provider listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
During the first 6-month of operations Aforti Factor AS has serviced more than EUR 1’500’000 worth of invoices, ranging from EUR 25 – EUR 200’000. Currently the company employs 12 people and is rapidly expanding across the country to meet the growing demand for their product.
‘’So far May has been the most successful month for Aforti Factor. The Operational Department accepted invoices worth almost PLN 1.8 million (EUR 420’000), an increase of 24% compared to the previous month. As we already have had a successful partnership with Viventor and Aforti Finance, we’re looking forward to offer our new product to the investors on the platform” says Jacek Książek, the managing director of Aforti Factor SA.
Aforti Factor SA loans on Viventor marketplace
Aforti Factor will offer its invoice loans with maturities starting from 7 up to 90 days. The company will maintain 5% skin in the game stake in every single loan and start by offering a projected return of around 12%p.a. On top of that, all of Aforti Factor loans will be secured by a 60-day Buyback Guarantee.
Viventor is pleased to welcome a new loan originator from Bulgaria – Stik Credit AD.
Established in 2013 Stik Credit AD provides short and medium term consumer loans. The company currently employs 26 people and has 11 offices across the country.
Since the inception, Stik Credit has issued more than 18’000 loans with the total worth exceeding EUR 5’000’000. The average loan is around 277 EUR for a 5.2 months period. Due to the company’s robust risk management, the delinquency rate (60+ days) has decreased below 15%.
“Even though, we have been financed entirely by equity of our founding shareholders and retained profit, we have seen stable growth over the years. Cooperation with Viventor is the next logical step to accelerate our growth and offer an even better experience to our customers,” comments Hristina Todorova, executive director of Stik Credit.
Stik Credit AD loans on Viventor marketplace
Stik Credit AD will offer its single payment loans with maturities up to 1 month, as well as installment loans up to 24 months. The company will maintain 5% skin in the game stake in every single loan and start by offering an introductory projected return of around 13%p.a.
Lenndy is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, where investors can invest in loans by buying out prior issued loan rights. Using the platform operators’ technological solutions, non-banking loan administrators have the option to transfer rights of claim arising from any credit agreement. This model allows investors to redeem already committed loans and get 12-15% interest.
Loans at Lenndy are sold by loan originators, that are issuing loans for businesses only. Loan originators transfers their issued loan documentation and Lenndy operator presents them in loan list, after successful valuation results. Only 95 % of loans can be sold at Lenndy, to ensure that Loan Originator also keeps part of the loans with all investors, who made the investment. Lending Marketplace is named as a P2P 2.0 version, because users are investing in already issued loans, and borrowers doesn’t have to wait until all the amount will be collected from many investors.
Investors can select among many loans issued by loan originators. Currently, our loan originators issue secured car loans, mortgage loans, invoice factoring or other business loans. Most of the loans have pledged collateral and buyback guarantee provided by respective loan originators.
There are two types of loans – 1) secured loans with collateral and 2) unsecured loans without any collateral. For secured loans collateral may be real estate in the case of a mortgage loan, a vehicle in the case of a car loan or equipment in the case of a business loan as well as many other types of collateral as indicated at the description of each loan.
Both individuals and entities can invest through Lenndy. Individual investors must be at least 18 years old and have an active Paysera account with III or IV identification Level. Businesses can invest at Lenndy after the owner or the authorized person reaches Level III or Level IV at Paysera bank.
All investments are made in EURO.
Before the investment it is important to know:
1. the platform operators rules and loan and privacy policy;
2. the information about loan in which you want to invest:
– repayment conditions;
– obligations of all parties;
– pledged assets and other guarantors (e.g. personal guarantee);
– cases and sanctions of delays in the payment of contributions;
How the free registration works?
1. The investor registers to the platform.
2. Verifies the e-mail address.
3. Registers with the online bank „PAYSERA“ system and carry out the transfer to the platform account, this way confirming his identity.
4. The investor gets acquainted with submitted business loans on the platform.
5. Invests in selected business loan;
6. The investor can see all the information about the loans and contributions that are displayed in his account.
Loan originator‘s buyback guarantee is one of the key advantages for Lenndy investors, which means that loan originator buys back outstanding loan amount with interest from investors when borrower fails to pay for 60 days. Buyback guarantee is valid for loans with buyback icon.
When investing funds, you should be prepared to hold the investment through to its maturity date. However, Lenndy offers a secondary market that may provide liquidity in certain circumstances. Lenndy, as a market maker, may also buy back an investment by entering into a mutual agreement with you.
Also, keep in mind that sometimes you might receive monthly principal and interest payments, which will reduce your investment in a respective loan over time.
