Tag: Loanboox

  • Loanboox now enables real estate financing

    Loanboox now enables real estate financing

    The Zurich start -up Loanboox enters the brokerage of loans for housing cooperatives, real estate funds and companies. The financing expert Patrick Zurfluh is joining the company as Head of Real Estate Financing, according to a press release .

    The first pilot transactions have already been completed, including a housing cooperative from the canton of Zurich. By processing via Loanboox, the borrower was able to save 20 percent of the financing costs and more than halved her expenses.

    As Head of Real Estate Financing, Patrick Zurfluh wants to advise and support real estate companies in the future. Before that, he worked for the Raiffeisen and Credit Suisse banks as a real estate financing specialist. “It struck me that real estate financing should be made simpler and more cost-efficient. That’s why I’m with Loanboox now,” he is quoted as saying in the media release.

    Loanboox has been brokering loans from investors to public sector borrowers for five years. All parties can view and organize their documents and communications as well as deadlines via the Loanboox digital money and capital market platform. Municipalities, cities and large companies have received 2,500 loans through Loanboox to date. The company is also open to partnerships with associations and organizations.

  • Axpo places green bond via Loanboox

    Axpo places green bond via Loanboox

    Axpo has placed a so-called green bond via the digital capital market platform of the Zurich fintech Loanboox , according to a media release . The fixed-interest bond of CHF 133 million has a term of seven years.

    Axpo intends to use the net proceeds from the bond to invest in renewable energies. The company highlights wind energy and photovoltaic projects. Overall, Axpo wants to use the Green Bond to “strengthen its position as the largest Swiss producer of renewable energies” and expand its group of investors, it is said.

    According to Loanboox, Axpo is the first issuer to place a green bond entirely digitally via the debt capital market platform. "This first bond is proof that our digital process creates added value for all market participants," says Philippe Cayrol, CEO of Loanboox. "We are proud and happy to work with innovative customers and partners to create new standards in terms of transparency, pricing and allocation in the primary market – in Switzerland and Europe," he adds.