Reinvest24 is a real estate investment platform, directly competing with BulkEstate, CrowdEstate and EstateGuru in Estonia. However, the business model is different. At Reinvest24, the focus is on earning money from rent and capital gains, whereas on the other aforementioned platforms,...
The FCA, also known as the Financial Conduct Authority, is the regulatory body for peer to peer lending platforms and other financial services in the United Kingdom. On December 7 2018, the FCA has refused the application of Mintos. As explained below, Martins...
In relation to the rumors that Grupeer is not accepting Latvian investors, we decided to contact them to verify the story. Would you be keen on explaining why Latvian citizens are not allowed? Yes, indeed, starting from June 22, 2017, we...
We’ve asked Martins Sulte (CEO) and Marcis Gogis (Head of product) about their plans for Mintos in 2019. What are your plans for Mintos in 2019? Our upcoming activities are a logical continuation of things we have been doing since 2015....
Envestio is one of our favorite peer to peer lending platforms besides Mintos. We’ve managed to get an opportunity to interview Liene Meldere and Eugene Kukin from Envestio. What differentiates Envestio from other platforms? I would like to emphasize that the...
July and August were tough months for the peer to peer lending industry in China. This also partially reflected in the loan portfolio on Mintos for a very brief period, when interest rates dropped from a whopping 13-14% to a meager...
On September 27 2018, Mintos introduces Trustly, a Swedish payment service provider. Mintos claims that deposits are processed instantly and will immediatelly appear on your account, assuming no extra anti-money laundering checks occur. Trustly was founded in 2008 to simplify online...
I have been investing at Mintos since June 2017. A lot has changed ever since I started investing at Mintos. It is hard to keep track. While I have been active at other peer to peer lending platforms too, not a single...
The Lenovo 500 Multimedia Controller is an attempt by Lenovo to address an issue that has developed in the past 20 years. Our TV’s have evolved into smart TV’s but still use the same old remotes, and computers have significantly shrunk,...
It has been 1 year since I started investing at Mintos. Time is going so fast, it is hard to keep track of everything that is going on. Lower returns Throughout 2017, we saw plenty of loans with interest rates between...