Alternative Investment Articles

Opyn is the largest business lending company in Italy as well as a major player in Europe with a facilitated loan portfolio of more than €1.2 billion. The platform helps Italian SME companies get a business loan and sets up Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) f...

Bulkestate is a real estate crowdfunding platform that also facilitates residential real estate group-buying deals. The platform offers fractional investments in debt secured by Latvian real estate. In this interview, you will learn from the CEO & Co-founder Igors Puntuss what it means to invest with Bulkestate.

Žltý Melón is a Slovakia based peer-to-peer lending company established in 2012. Žltý Melón is operated by Slovak companies iService, a.s. and iSale, v.o.s. The platform is regulated by regulations of the European Union and the Slovak Republic. As of...

What happened last month in the alternative investment markets? We take a look at numbers reported to P2P Market Data in December 2022 and dive deeper into this month’s special focus: 2022 in review.

Mintos is the largest global investment marketplace for personal loans with more than 500.000 registered investors from all over the world. Unlike traditional peer-to-peer lending, the platform caters exclusively to investors and it is not possible t...

NEO Finance, founded in 2014, is a profitable P2P lending company that has granted over EUR 128 million in loans in Lithuania, with a loan portfolio of over EUR 50 million. It has also invested over EUR 3 million in its own software for managing its...

Peer-to-peer lending (P2P) is an innovative form of borrowing and investing money without the involvement of traditional financial institutions. P2P lending is also known as "social lending", "lending-based crowdfunding", or "crowd lending". Learn how it works.

Bondster Marketplace s.r.o. is a Czech Republic-based marketplace lending platform that was launched in 2017. Its aim is to offer a credible alternative to traditional investing, without the use of banks or other financial intermediaries, with the go...

Žltý melón is a well-established Peer-to-Peer lending platform for private debt in Slovakia with over 10 years of operation. The platform offers personal debt investments from borrowers in Slovakia for European retail investors. In this interview, you will learn from the Founder & CEO Roman Feranec what it means to invest with Žltý melón.

The Balkan countries haven’t always been a prime choice for global investors, taking somewhat of a neglected stance against the backdrop of its highly-developed European neighbours. Recently though, Latvia has been making a name for itself as a prominent destination for industrial and economic growth; bolstered by well-balanced sectoral growth across health, logistics and energy

Swaper Platform OÜ PLC, launched in 2016, based in Estonia, operates a marketplace lending platform that offers investments in loan receivables. Swaper allows European investors to access the markets for short-term unsecured consumer loans in Central...

What happened last month in the alternative investment markets? We take a look at numbers reported to P2PMarketData in November 2022 and dive deeper into this month’s special focus: A first peek into alternative investment projects.