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What happened last month in peer-to-peer lending and real estate crowdfunding? We take a look at numbers reported to P2P Market Data in July 2021 and dive deeper into this month’s special focus: A spike in Student Lending.

NFT Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Crypto lending explained. A new niche in the Peer-to-Peer lending industry has emerged. How can you borrow against your NFT's? And is it worth investing in loans with NFT's as collateral?

What happened last month in peer-to-peer lending and real estate crowdfunding? We take a look at numbers reported to P2P Market Data in July 2021 and dive deeper into this month’s special focus: the exponential growth of peer-to-peer lending in Italy.

Profitus is one of the leading real estate crowdfunding platform in Lithuania. In this interview, Profitus CEO Viktorija Vanagė explains how she sees real estate crowdfunding, the impact of Covid on Prfitus, the future ahead and much more.

Cryptocurrency lending is a great opportunity for p2p lenders. It’s also potentially confusing. Here is a comprehensive comparison of the best and worst features of the two largest cryptocurrency lending platforms: Nexo and Celsius.

Celsius provides liquidity pool style investing so your funds go into the pool and they are loaned out to others. Celsius offers fixed-rate savings accounts in a regulated cryptocurrency business. Let’s take a look at the services Celsius offers.

Nexo offers fixed-rate savings accounts in an EU-regulated cryptocurrency business. Nexo loans your money like a bank does. Nexo puts your funds into a liquidity pool and loans it out to the borrowers. Let’s take a look at the services Nexo offers.

In the Crowdfunding context, a ring-fence is the act of segregating investor funds from assets of the platform. It serves the purpose of creating a barrier against any claims to a platform itself for the protection of investor funds.

Viventor has been doing well, delivering high returns and avoiding serious problems, until the pandemic-induced stress test kicked in. Last year has been marred with troubles. Does Viventor remain a good high-yield option after the COVID crisis?

Swaper lists loans from its parent company – Wandoo. It offers high interest rates and attractive buyback conditions. Issues of diversification and transparency cast some shade on its reliability though. What’s the balance?

Over 20% ROI on (unsecured) business loans seems too good to be true. With the majority of loans in delay or default, Crowdestor is unlikely to sustain such a ROI over the long term. Can it prove that its business model is sustainable?

What happened last month in Peer-to-Peer lending and real estate crowdfunding? We take a look at numbers reported to P2PMarketData in June 2021 and dive deeper into this month’s special focus: the post-pandemic acceleration of business lending.