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In today’s episode, we meet Tomas Medeckis from Nordstreet, where you can invest in business and real estate loans.

We talk about why they are based in Lithuania and the pros/cons of that, as well as their great track record with loans so far. We also talk about investing in the Baltic region as well as Nordstreet’s plans on expanding beyond the region.

This platform has been returning 10-14% for its investors, although according to market fundamentals the expected returns in the next year should be around 10-11%, and Tomas was very open about the fact that returns are ultimately a function of market conditions.

Nordstreet has experienced 0 defaults while it has raised €10m so far, mostly from Lithuanian investors. It is open to all investors, however, with the only requirement being that they use a Paysera account for depositing and withdrawing funds.

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• Nordstreet

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In this episode, Jean sits down with Rob Dix, who is well known for his several projects in the UK real estate space. Together with his wife Mish, he also ran the popular digital nomad blog Making It Anywhere. His journey shares quite a few similarities with Jean’s, so it was interesting to discuss several of the topics that interest both of them, including parenting, property and other investments, as well as other life choices.

*We apologize for the sound quality in Jean’s part of the recording, unfortunately we had a technical problem and had to use the backup audio recording on this episode.

Links

• Rob’s Blog
• The Property Hub
• Property Geek
• The Property Podcast

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In today’s episode, we have Anthony Cerullo from YouHodler joining us to explain how this platform enables crypto hodlers to earn interest on their holdings via the YouHodler savings account, or even obtain crypto-backed loans and even gain big from crypto movements using the Turbocharge and Multi Hodl products.

You can check out Jean’s review of YouHodler if you’d like more details on the platform, the article is a perfect accompaniment to this podcast episode.

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Links

• Multi HODL walkthrough video
• Is YouHodler safe?
• How crypto savings works
• Turbocharge
• Fees and commissions
• Follow the latest news on YouHodler’s Twitter, Blog and Telegram channels

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Today’s episode features Martins Sulte, the CEO and co-founder of the biggest European P2P lending platform Mintos, as our guest.

Lending and alternative lending is not a new industry at all, but many European investors only became aware to this asset class in recent years, also because before there was no real way they could get involved since it required insider knowledge, contacts or big sums of capital.

Mintos itself start out with the founders and 4 developers, and it has not grown to over 160 people.

It was a pleasure to speak with Martins and have him share some of his widespread knowledge in the P2P lending space.

Mintos has been operating for 5 years and is the largest P2P lending marketplace with over 50% market share in Europe. More than 6 billion euros of loans have been facilitated so far and the average investor invests around 3000 euros.

The biggest number of investors come from Germany, Spain and the Czech Republic respectively, but this is mostly a reflection of those countries’ familiarity with this type of investing. There are more than 340,000 investors that have used Mintos and they come from 90+ countries.

More than 60 lending companies offer their loans on the Mintos platform, with over 25,000 people working at these companies and spread over 33 countries, so you can have a global reach when investing on Mintos.

The company supports 10 languages via its multilingual support team, while the website is available in 6 languages and there are loans available in 10 currencies.

If you’re intrigued by this episode, do make sure you check out Jean’s extensive review of Mintos on his blog.

Links

• Mintos
• Review of Mintos
• AMA about funds in recovery