P2P Lending

mike_cork · 01-10-2019 01:28PM

littlevillage wrote: »

Well, I can't log into Mintos today "The system is currently being updated" is the message. Which has given me a cold shiver up my spine. Why wouldn't they just do this type of upgrade at the weekend or during the night?

In general I am happy enough to stay invested in Mintos (simply becase they are soo much bigger than the rest) but I would be very wary of the smaller operators. Inevitably there will be casualties and because P2P is all about cash flow ... you would imagine its the smaller operators with the shallower pockets who wil suffer first.

Any recommendations on platforms to avoid?

soc · 01-10-2019 01:36PM

littlevillage wrote: »

Well, I can't log into Mintos today "The system is currently being updated" is the message. Which has given me a cold shiver up my spine. Why wouldn't they just do this type of upgrade at the weekend or during the night?

In general I am happy enough to stay invested in Mintos (simply becase they are soo much bigger than the rest) but I would be very wary of the smaller operators. Inevitably there will be casualties and because P2P is all about cash flow ... you would imagine its the smaller operators with the shallower pockets who wil suffer first.

I can log in no problem.

littlevillage · 01-10-2019 09:17PM

mike_cork wrote: »

Any recommendations on platforms to avoid?

DYOR

Personally I keep a close on on

https://www.p2p-banking.com/tag/loan-volume/

P2PBanking.com · 02-10-2019 10:27AM

Published the new volumes figures
https://www.p2p-banking.com/countries/germany-international-p2p-lending-volumes-september-2019/
Assetz going strong, Bondora at an alltime high, October with a good month. Linked Finance better than previous month but too low to satsify investor demand

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 02-10-2019 10:32AM

Bondora... is most of that growth from their Go & Grow product?

Mintos, my weighted average has been dropping and is coming close to 11%. Most new investments are 8-10%, so i expect that average to drop to below 10% by the end of the month. I have decided to move funds from Mintos to other, better performing platforms. Hopefully rates will improve again in the Spring.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 02-10-2019 12:23PM

Does anyone have a list of the p2p sites that offer a similar product to Bondora's 'Go & Grow' or Mintos' 'Invest & Access'?

Perhaps one of the bloggers who follow this thread might be able to point me the right direction.

Bondora :: Go & Grow :: upto 6.75% :: Ability to withdraw investment/profit at any stage
Mintos :: Invest & Access :: upto 8.58% ** :: Unable to withdraw funds where the loan is in grace period or late

(** rate is on a downward trend)

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 02-10-2019 12:40PM

Grupeer are ending their buyback guarantee.
Grupeer will be offering loans with no buyback guarantee in future. More details can be found on their website here. I somehow missed the announcement.

but will be withdrawing my funds once the guarantee ends.

Edit: thanks for the clarification all. I guess I'll keep my funds there for now so!

P2PBanking.com · 02-10-2019 12:49PM

ProjectMoose: 72% was in G&G (in August) https://www.bondora.com/blog/e14-5m-invested-in-august/
ProjectMoose: Mintos CEO does not expect big rebound (rise) of rates soon again https://www.p2p-kredite.com/diskussion/viewtopic,p,125935.html#125935
ProjectMoose: add Assetz Capital to the list
@all: regarding the volumes. Forgot to mention that Investly is near an all time high too. They have some high paying EUR invoices. E.g today 12% and 14% available. Their new investor promo with prizes for new investors, that I mentioned earlier, is still running. Details: https://www.p2p-kredite.com/diskussion/exklusive-neukunden-aktion-250-150-und-100-euro-bonus-t6903.html

mike_cork · 02-10-2019 01:05PM

Clara Sparse Windbreak wrote: »

Grupeer are ending their buyback guarantee. More details can be found on their website here. I somehow missed the announcement but will be withdrawing my funds once the guarantee ends.

I recently sent grupeer mail on this and the below is the response:

The changes in Terms and Conditions were made as a provision for future loans that will be placed on Grupeer platform. When the first deal without the BBG will be placed on Grupeer platform, all our clients will be notified. And of course, you will receive a higher yield for such investment opportunity to compensate for the additional risk.
You don’t need to switch off your Auto-invest strategies. In a few days, our IT team will offer a solution to filter these criteria, when setting up an Auto-invest strategy. Currently, when the solution will become present, only “with BuyBack Guarantee” option will be available

sKeith · 02-10-2019 01:11PM

Clara Sparse Windbreak wrote: »

Grupeer are ending their buyback guarantee. More details can be found on their website here. I somehow missed the announcement but will be withdrawing my funds once the guarantee ends.

That's not quite correct.

They will be introducing loans with higher interest with no buyback guarantees.
They will not be removing buyback guarantees from their platform.

Mintos has loans with buyback and loans without.
That's all grupeer is doing, add non buyback guaranteed loans to their platform.
Their will be a new setting added to auto-invest, which you will have to OPT-IN too, so that your portfolio picks up these new non buyback guaranteed loans from.

If you leave all your settings as is, you will not pick up any non buyback guaranteed loans.

I had a similar reaction as you did when i noticed the headline, and turned off my auto-invest, then I fully read the notice and turned it back on again, happy with the news, knowing that the new loans are not for me, but they are available, just lkie they are on mintos, and that don't bother me on mintos.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 02-10-2019 01:41PM

Sorry lads, I'm out and about. I posted the link so others could read the blurp but I should have expanded on my post when posted earlier.

My reading is that no new loans will have a buyback, so eventually there will be no loans with buyback? You'll only have both in the short term?

Green&Red · 02-10-2019 04:38PM

Clara Sparse Windbreak wrote: »

Sorry lads, I'm out and about. I posted the link so others could read the blurp but I should have expanded on my post when posted earlier.

My reading is that no new loans will have a buyback, so eventually there will be no loans with buyback? You'll only have both in the short term?

More specifically, the BuyBack Guarantee will not be applicable to all future projects listed on the platform

My reading is that it would be applicable to some, it goes onto talk about how you'd be better compensated for those loans which don't have BBG

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 02-10-2019 04:50PM

On reading it again, I think you're correct. Looks like they'll have both available. Will correct my post. Thanks chaps.

sk8board · 08-10-2019 12:20PM

vargoo wrote: »

Don't go near B- if you can't afford to lose it. Some real turds in there.

Varks is B, still in negative equity apparently/their uploaded in armenian financials still causing doubts. So I'd untick that to. They have good looking statistics page and only 1 page of late loans versus 57 pages total but that wouldn't be a saving grace for me with money I'm not comfortable losing.

came across this post from March when researching Varks, so I may as well update it, as currently only Varks are available on Mintos for short term loans over 9.5% (A to B+ only)

in terms of rating, they seem to have improved markedly in terms of profitability (-€0.9m to +€6.8m), and (as a result, presumably) up a huge +42 points to 69 on the independent ratings: https://explorep2p.com/mintos-lender-ratings/

so - I've left it run for now and one of my auto-invests has 3k solely in 30d Varks loans this morning, and its auto-diversifies as more LO's come available.

penny for your thoughts

MrMoneyIreland · 09-10-2019 03:29PM

Very informative thread. I've been using p2p lending sites in Ireland now for near 4 years, both lending and referring businesses in for loans through the platforms as a partner/broker, im accountant by trade. Both moderately successful. Originally Linked, then GRID Finance which dont really seem to have a marketplace now and more recently Flender. Find Flenders dashboard most engaging.
Returns wise, always invested 250 a month and allow that to build until I had the same coming in from repayments montly and continung to lend that out again, has help build a significant pot overtime that can be liqudated over 3 years (hopefully) at any point.
Defaults have been marginal but still present, i estimate my current portfolio to be at 1.2%. Linked I found the information they showed publicly allowed me to decide on whether I would get involved but wasnt always up to date. Their comms around arrears and defaults was poor but got better. i put this down to scaling problems, all seems to be in hand now. The intro of auto bid I think changed to speed in how fast loans were being funded but took the oversight out of what I wanted to get involved in, I didnt like this.
GRID never presented the account etc however I found I had less defaults, maybe the credit assesment was better/differnt, not sure (volumes of loans was lower) but comms always good. Flender I am yet to experiance an issue but still early.

Minus regulation Im not sure I see the marketplace for p2p lending in ireland being anyway big enough for it to make an impact, it would have by now is my feeling. revenues lack of understanding around the whole thing makes me nervous as well. im sure there was something last year about asking the business who were taking the loans to capture withholding tax! How?? interesting seeing all 3 of these platforms bringing in instituation lenders on an ongoing basis which fund large % of the loans now, probably become balance sheet lenders themselves as some point. An email last week from GRID offered access to an investment fund in form of loan notes fixed return of 6.5% per annum, I dont see the others offering this but exploring at the moment and will share feedback on this in time.

In summary, not a huge fan in p2p lending, particulary on an individual loan basis, not enough return for the effort and of course there always that individual loan risk that is ever present. Irelands way behind the curve and with regulation still, well years away I am sondering withdrawing from it completly.

Noteable edit since I posted this, Flenders default rate went from .3% to .7% over a day. Stil low but chunky enough jump that got my attention.

Lazy Bhoy · 12-10-2019 12:56PM

Has anybody paid taxes on p2p Lending profits yet?

This is my first year investing in p2p Lending.
The only platform that I use so far is Mintos.
I don't know when, where or how to pay tax on the profit that I have made.
I have asked some family members for advice but I am getting mixed responses.
Some are saying it is just capital gains so it is 33% on anything over €1,270. (but this does not sound right to me).
Others are saying that it is just normal income tax and should be paid at my rate (40%) which makes a bit more sense, but how is it done?.

Any advice from people who have already been down this road would be much appreciated because as I have mentioned above, I am not sure where, when or how to pay any tax on this.

sonyvision · 12-10-2019 01:44PM

Lazy Bhoy wrote: »

Has anybody paid taxes on p2p Lending profits yet?

This is my first year investing in p2p Lending.
The only platform that I use so far is Mintos.
I don't know when, where or how to pay tax on the profit that I have made.
I have asked some family members for advice but I am getting mixed responses.
Some are saying it is just capital gains so it is 33% on anything over €1,270. (but this does not sound right to me).
Others are saying that it is just normal income tax and should be paid at my rate (40%) which makes a bit more sense, but how is it done?.

Any advice from people who have already been down this road would be much appreciated because as I have mentioned above, I am not sure where, when or how to pay any tax on this.

It's taxed under income tax, your earning interest. Declare it as part of your form 12 at the end of the year. Normally they reduce my tax credits by the tax owed for the next financial year.

sk8board · 14-10-2019 09:49AM

https://www.revenue.ie/en/tax-professionals/tdm/income-tax-capital-gains-tax-corporation-tax/part-08/08-03-05.pdf

Section 2.1.1

In short, it’s taxed as unearned income, just like rental income - if you’re in the higher tax bracket, then that’s the level you’ll pay.
There are sections on the annual form 12 online to easily add it in.

Lazy Bhoy · 14-10-2019 10:23AM

Thanks guys.

I will take a look at form 12 so.

What date does this have to be done by?

sk8board · 14-10-2019 10:36AM

Lazy Bhoy wrote: »

Thanks guys.

I will take a look at form 12 so.

What date does this have to be done by?

It’s Oct 31st, or Nov 15th if you file online.

If you’re asking this question, you need to seriously consider getting someone to help you file your returns. Once you know how it works, then it’s easy enough to do yourself In future years (€500 saved). Takes me about an hour or so to dig out Maintenance receipts, capital allowances, etc and the new form 12 even pre-fills much of the p60 data now too.
I track unearned income on a monthly spreadsheet, so I already know my tax bill and there’s no surprises.
You then set the date On the form 12 that you want the revenue to reach into your account and take the tax and hey-presto you’re done for another year.

I’m actually doing mine today. Fun times

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 14-10-2019 11:29AM

ViaInvest - seeing a lack of loans. I reached out to ViaInvest and they stated "Currently there is a high amount of investors with VIAINVEST with a high demand for loans"

Mintos - as predicted by weighted avery is now below 11 and continuing to drop. Might see below 10 by Christmas at this rate.

DoFinance - with the additional 1.5% on auto-invest plans (giving up to 13.5%/year), I am moving additional funds from Mintos, ViaInvest and another few platforms to take advantage of the better returns on DoFinance.

Envestio - loans are few and far between. Where the heck are all the new loans they promised?

littlevillage · 15-10-2019 10:46AM

Clara Sparse Windbreak wrote: »

ViaInvest - seeing a lack of loans. I reached out to ViaInvest and they stated "Currently there is a high amount of investors with VIAINVEST with a high demand for loans"

Mintos - as predicted by weighted avery is now below 11 and continuing to drop. Might see below 10 by Christmas at this rate.

DoFinance - with the additional 1.5% on auto-invest plans (giving up to 13.5%/year), I am moving additional funds from Mintos, ViaInvest and another few platforms to take advantage of the better returns on DoFinance.

Envestio - loans are few and far between. Where the heck are all the new loans they promised?

Snap!! Despite my misgivings about the tiny size of their operation ... I have blasted a wad of cash into DoFinance also.

Given the way interest rates are going at other P2P operators and how out of step Dofinance is now... I expect they will have spectacular volume growth for the Month of October :rolleyes:

I just hope their generous returns aren't a ruse to attract quick money in to cover up some problems in their loan book

Green&Red · 15-10-2019 11:01AM

Clara Sparse Windbreak wrote: »

ViaInvest - seeing a lack of loans. I reached out to ViaInvest and they stated "Currently there is a high amount of investors with VIAINVEST with a high demand for loans"

Mintos - as predicted by weighted avery is now below 11 and continuing to drop. Might see below 10 by Christmas at this rate.

DoFinance - with the additional 1.5% on auto-invest plans (giving up to 13.5%/year), I am moving additional funds from Mintos, ViaInvest and another few platforms to take advantage of the better returns on DoFinance.

Envestio - loans are few and far between. Where the heck are all the new loans they promised?

PM - you seem to have stopped referencing Grupeer in your posts, is there a reason?
Thanks for all the good work BTW

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 15-10-2019 03:55PM

Ah this is a group effort, we all add a bit and hopefully we get the most out of our returns.

I mentioned Grupeer a few posts above in relation to their change in T&C's. Posters here clarified the changes and am happy to stay with them.
All recent investments are 13-13.5% 5 month to 12 month loans. Mostly business loans but a few development loans. I doubled my investment in the platform last month. Auto-invest working as expected. Plenty of loan availability.

Edit: A quick calc before my last deposit shows returns ~15% (with the cashback campaigns mixed in).

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 16-10-2019 01:12PM

DoFinance are (temporarily?) stopping their cashback campaign. Email received moments ago. Pity, I was just getting funds together to invest a little more this week.

"We are letting you know that since the unexpected activity and volume of investments, we are stopping the 1.5% cashback campaign today on 16.10.2019"

littlevillage · 16-10-2019 03:59PM

littlevillage wrote: »

Given the way interest rates are going at other P2P operators and how out of step Dofinance is now... I expect they will have spectacular volume growth for the Month of October :rolleyes:

:P

FFVII · 16-10-2019 09:59PM

What in the name of God is Mintos at with Aforti???

They've payed money back to investors that Aforti hadn't payed? Where is this money coming from?? Where is the Financial controls/T&Cs about this?
We've gone from an originator risk to a platform risk I think, No?

Piss take territory?

How many originators does Mintos actually own now?

littlevillage · 17-10-2019 03:15PM

Clara Sparse Windbreak wrote: »

DoFinance are (temporarily?) stopping their cashback campaign. Email received moments ago. Pity, I was just getting funds together to invest a little more this week.

"We are letting you know that since the unexpected activity and volume of investments, we are stopping the 1.5% cashback campaign today on 16.10.2019"

I wonder how much the Loan volume is gone up for DoFinance Month on Month ?
enough to get them worried, clearly :eek: soo maybe 200-300%

Anyway looks like I just got in in time to get the last of the cash back bonus.

P2PBanking.com · 23-10-2019 05:12PM

Funding Secure Fails
https://www.p2p-banking.com/countries/uk-brief-funding-secure-fails-now-in-administration/

P2PBanking.com · 23-10-2019 09:29PM

Mintos suspends Rapido Finance
https://blog.mintos.com/mintos-temporarily-suspends-rapido-finance-from-the-marketplace/

430,000 EUR loans outstanding

P2P Lending

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