In the United States investment opportunities in marketplace lending have long been limited to US based platforms for individual investors. However,...
The Estonian-based P2P lender turned a profit late 2016; hopes to turn an annual profit in 2017; revenues were 4.2 million euros (USD $4.5 million) in 2016; according to CEO Partel Tomberg: "Looking at the bigger picture, we were a bit looking for our place. We have tried a number of products, businesses and client segments over the years. By mid-2016 we understood that our focus has to be on what we started from – a faster and cheaper consumer loan product. And we understood that on the investment side it has to be an online product for the people, not so much for the banks or funds." Source
The European country is considering a coin offering that would include the issuance of estcoins; the offering would build on the country's progressive innovation in technology and specifically its e-Residency Program; Kaspar Korjus, director of Estonia's e-Residency program, has been a leading proponent for the ICO and the country is also supported by ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin; funds from the ICO would go towards investment in new technologies for the public sector as well as invest venture capital into Estonian companies. Source