It’s a wrap – thanks for the great 2015!

It’s been another action-packed year here at Bondora. We want to thank everyone for being part and making our community of 12,242 investors and 243,062 borrowers. We had quite a few memorable moments this year and here is a selection we wanted to highlight for you. Happy holidays and enjoy the highlights!

In 2015:

1. We processed 421 M EUR worth of loan applications
2. Our investors funded 24 M EUR worth of loans
3. 19% is the average net return for loans originated
4. 52,370 people applied for a loan
5. 4,107 investors made investments
6. New bankruptcy remote legal structure rolled out to reduce operational and compliance risks for both retail and institutional investors
7. First global institutional investors started lending on Bondora
8. We applied for full authorization from UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Estonia’s Financial Supervision Authority (FSA)
9. We opened up Bondora platform to U.S. accredited investors after receiving authorization from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
10. Bondora wins an award at AltFi Awards 2015

“This award is proof of the hard work our team has been doing over the past years in building up a loan origination, credit scoring and servicing process that works across borders”, says Pärtel Tomberg, CEO of Bondora.

11. Our engineering team made 49 major and 150 minor product releases for both borrowers and investors
12. New dashboard and fully automated Portfolio Manager launched for making investments easier for our retail investors
13. First public Application Program Interface (API) in Europe launched catered for the most active investors
14. Bondora Rating introduced in January which delivers net returns in line with targets on 98% of the cases
15. Bondora Rating 2.0 introduced in December to further improve risk-return performance
16. New organizational structure was implemented to give better support for our growing investor base
17. New Bondora character makes her first statement
18. We have 55 experts from 4 different nationalities working in our office
19. Our support team handled 114,538 tickets this year
20. Estonian, English, Russian, Finnish and Spanish are the languages spoken by our support team
21. 14 Developer Club events held for our team
22. 6,251 code commits were implemented by our engineering team
23. Bondorians are a healthy bunch – we have eaten 2,600 kg of fresh fruits this year
24. Our management team gave 12 presentations on global stages about the P2P industry
25. 75 cakes were ordered for office celebrations – no need to mention that we love big and small celebrations here!