13:45 pm, 26 September 2014
Harmoney CEO Neil Roberts says the country's sole licensed peer-to-peer lender has so far lent about $2 million and is rejecting 70-80% of the applications it receives for loans.
Read more at interest.co.nz.
13:52 pm, 12 September 2014
(Video)Harmoney's chairman Rob Campbell told Firstline this morning the peer-to-peer system has only become possible recently, thanks to new technology. "It provides a platform which means you don't use a bank or finance company or anything else, you can handle the process yourself, whether you're a borrower or a lender and there's in effect no intermediary."
Read more at 3 News.
14:10 pm, 10 September 2014
Harmoney "officially" launches today with its CEO saying New Zealand's first licenced peer-to-peer lender has $100 million to lend. CEO and founder Neil Roberts said Harmoney has secured $100 million in lending capital from four funders including Heartland Bank. He declined to name the other three, but described them as specialist peer-to-peer investment funds with some of the money coming from overseas.
Read more at interest.co.nz.
14:08 pm, 10 September 2014
Harmoney, New Zealand's only licensed peer-to-peer lender, said it has commitments for $100 million mainly from four investors it plans to lend to consumers with a sliding scale of interest based on their credit risk.
Read more at NZ Herald.
14:07 pm, 10 September 2014
New Zealand's only licensed peer-to-peer lender, Harmoney, said it has commitments for $100 million from investors. Harmoney, whose online platform went live four weeks ago and officially launched on Wednesday, matches investors with borrowers of up to $35,000 with interest rates ranging from 9.99 percent to as high as 39.99 percent depending on their assessed risk profile.
Read more at 3 News.
14:58 pm, 9 September 2014
Heartland Bank CEO Jeff Greenslade says the bank doesn't plan to be a passive investor in New Zealand's first licenced peer-to-peer (P2P) lender Harmoney. Yesterday Heartland said it was buying a 10% stake in Harmoney and would lend a "meaningful" sum of money through its online platform.
Read more at interest.co.nz.
16:16 pm, 8 September 2014
Heartland Bank CEO Jeff Greenslade says the bank will lend a "meaningful" amount of money through Harmoney's internet platform having taken a 10% shareholding for an undisclosed sum in New Zealand's first licenced peer-to-peer lender.
Read more at interest.co.nz.
15:57 pm, 8 September 2014
Heartland New Zealand will invest a “meaningful amount” into peer-to-peer lender HarMoney after taking a 10% stake for an undisclosed sum in New Zealand's only licensed platform, the bank’s chief executive Jeff Greenslade says.
Read more at TVNZ.
16:17 pm, 2 September 2014
Harmoney, New Zealand's first licenced peer-to-peer lender, is now open for business. "Peer to peer (P2P) lending is now live in New Zealand," the company's website says. As intermediaries, online P2P lending platform operators will match lenders with borrowers seeking loans for personal, charitable, or small business purposes and receive fees for doing so.
Read more at interest.co.nz.
16:21 pm, 31 August 2014
Neil Roberts is a hunter after extreme value. He is about to press the go button on Harmoney, the country's first peer-to-peer lender, challenging the banks for a slice of the "prime" personal loan market.
Read more at stuff.co.nz.
16:23 pm, 21 August 2014
I've never considered borrowing from anywhere but a bank before [...] but now there could be an alternative option for both those with a good credit history and not so good.
Read more at NZ Herald.
16:25 pm, 4 August 2014
Harmoney, an Auckland-based start up, this month became the first peer to peer (P2P) lending company in New Zealand Licensed by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).
Read more at Yahoo! NZ.
16:31 pm, 1 August 2014
Peer to peer lending platform Harmoney today announced the appointment of its full board of directors. This follows the announcement in May of former GPG Chairman Rob Campbell as Harmoney Chairman.
Read more at Yahoo! NZ.
16:29 pm, 1 August 2014
New Zealand based peer-to-peer lender Harmoney has shared the appointments to their board of directors. Harmoney became the first fully licensed P2P lender in New Zealand this past July.
Read more at Crowdfund Insider.
16:28 pm, 1 August 2014
New Zealand's first licenced peer-to-peer lender has unveiled its full board of directors and says it's "fine tuning" systems and operating policies and expects to start trading very soon.
Read more at interest.co.nz.
16:32 pm, 22 July 2014
New Zealand's first licenced peer-to-peer lender sees a "fantastic opportunity" to use its efficient business model to take on banks that have "margins you can drive a truck through."
Read more at interest.co.nz.
16:34 pm, 16 July 2014
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) in New Zealnd issued the very first peer to peer (P2P) lending license last week to Harmoney. The Auckland based company gets to claim “1st” in another country that has embraced the power of technology to transform the geriatric banking industry.
Read more at Crowdfunder Insider.
16:51 pm, 9 July 2014
NZ's first peer-to-peer platform promises better returns and lower rates than big banks. The boss of New Zealand's first peer-to-peer lending service, Harmoney, says the online platform will shake up the personal loan market and give retail investors a new option.
Read more at NZ Herald.
16:49 pm, 9 July 2014
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has granted New Zealand's first peer-to-peer lending licence to the Auckland-based Harmoney.
Read more at interest.co.nz.
16:48 pm, 9 July 2014
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has given the first service license to peer to peer lender Harmoney.
Read more at Idealog.