Spanish p2p lending marketplace Arboribus completed a study among 1,500 investors on its platform. Arboribus facilitates loans to SMEs in Spain.

Some of the main findings:

• 50% of the participants in the survey reinvest their profits
• 43% intend to increase their investment
• 30% of investors see the opportunity to assist SMEs to get the funding to go ahead with their projects
• 29% like that it is an alternative to invest independent from banking. The transparency of the p2p lending and control over where the money of this new model is invested directly collides with the opacity of the banks and the distrust in the management of their savings
• in 60% of cases the investor selects the company depending on the sector to which belongs
• only 12% analyze the balance sheet and income statement before investing
• 27% connect via mobile phones, smartphones and tablets

(Source: Arboribus)