Category: Financial Well-being
Financial well-being is the ability to meet your current and ongoing financial obligations, feel confident in your financial future, and have the freedom to make choices that contribute to your overall happiness.
European FinTech trends: What opportunities are investors and startups going for?
juli 8, 2015
‘Unicorn’, a favorite VC buzzword, has been steadily growing in search volume alongside ‘FinTech’ during the last few years. See Google Trends for comparison. This was the case even before Aileen Lee’s TechCrunch piece. The hunt for companies with >$1bn valuation has been on for a few years, and FinTech now has 36 of them…
Fintech startups will replace universal banks
juli 1, 2015
The article by Bondora CEO and co-founder, Partel Tomberg, originally appeared in the European Credit Research Institute Newsletter. Marketplace lending will make universal banks obsolete by giving everyone the opportunity to provide capital directly to consumers and businesses. Every consumer and small business should have an option to find the best service provider for every…
Recap of “The European Online Lending Opportunity” panel discussion at LendIt USA 2015
april 17, 2015
The largest alternative finance conference in the world, LendIt USA 2015, took place from April 13-15 in New York. The panel for the European Online Lending Opportunity discussion was comprised of international experts, including Partel Tomberg, CEO and co-founder of Bondora. Continue reading below for an edited excerpt of the recent panel discussion.
European Peer Lending: Has it Gone Mainstream or the Opportunity is Still there?
april 10, 2015
Earlier this year the Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, in co-operation with professional services firm E&Y, released a pan-European study of the alternative finance market. The study, titled "Moving Mainstream", can be considered the most comprehensive study on the subject released to date. The researchers studied the peer-to-peer consumer lending sector (a…