Mintos Review: Peer to Peer Lending

Restructured amounts for ID Finance have been extended

ID Finance is onboarding new investors who will provide $15 million USD equity investment, €20 million debt investment into the Spanish entity, and up to €7 million debt investment into the Mexican entity. As the onboarding of investors requires approval by regulators, the company won’t be able to cover the restructured pending payments of €18.3 million by 31 December 2022 as initially agreed. Considering this situation, Mintos agreed to pr

TASKREDIT has joined Mintos. TASCREDIT a secured car loan lender from Kazakhstan. The company’s loans in euro (EUR) and Kazakhstani tenge (KZT) are now available on Mintos with a B- Mintos Rating and with expected annual returns of up to 11% (loans in EUR) and up to 17% (loans in KZT).

The number of new investors joining Mintos was almost 150% higher in 2019 than in 2018. In total, last year investors on Mintos earned EUR 45 million in interest. On average, a single Mintos investor has an outstanding balance of EUR 4 725 invested across 241 different loans.

Over the last few months Mintos has also made several announcements in respect of another lender – Aforti Finance. This is another lender that has effectively defaulted by not passing on all the payments that were due to investors.

Mintos has announced that it is issuing a notice of default against one of its lenders – Rapido. The background to this is that Rapido had run out of cash and stopped making the cash remittances to Mintos investors that it was legally required to. The notice of default is a legal procedure but essentially the result of this will be most likely that Rapido is forced to either pay all the funds due immediately, or be forced into insolvency.

The secondary market of Mintos is huge, almost as big as the primary market. Many investors choose to invest in loans or buy loans that other investors have at a discount.

If you want to sell a loan so you can get your invested money back, you can do it in the secondary market . To do this you will probably need to sell your loan at a small discount to attract buyers.

The majority (over 99%) of Mintos loans are covered by a buyback guarantee . Each platform defines differently the guarantees it provides in case the borrower fails to repay the loan. Specifically, Mintos stipulates that if the borrower fails to pay the projected monthly installment for 60 days the loan originator will intervene and compensate the investor with the invested capital + interest for the period the investor had invested in the loan, including 60 days overdue.

Mintos is a fast growing company with offices in Riga, Warsaw and Mexico City, and soon in other countries.

Mintos is the leader of P2P platforms in Continental Europe with a market share of 38% according to the data AltFi . Less than three years after its launch, Mintos reached profitability in 2017 with revenue of € 2.1 million and a net profit of € 196,000.