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I Love Fintech, or Small Business Bonds For The Win

January 26, 2021 by James Hendrickson 2 Comments

A few weeks back, I took some of the holiday gift money I’d received and put it into small business bonds.  I did this via a neat, if not somewhat risky fintech I’d discovered last year. Well, it seems like the bonds are starting to get processed and issued.  I just received this in my email today:

SMBX big bear bonds

 

Even though its electronic, its nice to get the actual bond statement.  When the US Treasury phased out paper savings bonds in 2010, I was a little bit disappointed.  There is nothing like having an actual physical paper receipt to prove you own something.  Sometimes the digital world feels too ephemeral to be real.

The company I bought the bond through is called The Small Business Marketplace or SMBX.  They’re a Fintech start up trying to build a market for small business bonds. At this point, the model is pretty immature – nobody really knows what the risk profile for small business bonds look like. So I just put a small amount of money in to limit my risk.  Still, it’s pretty cool to see the process working, and if things are successful I’ll get 7% on my 20 dollars.

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If you want to get some small business bonds too, SMBX’s website is => here.

Filed Under: Bonds Tagged With: bond investing, bonds, investing, Money Management, personal finance, wealth building, wealthy

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  1. Eric says

    February 19, 2021 at 8:07 am

    The SMBX is great! It’s so easy to use and gives you access to many great deals at the same time. What a wonderful way to support the places and products you love — and make a really solid return on your investment while doing so.

  2. James says

    February 22, 2021 at 7:15 am

    Eric,

    Thanks! I’ve been looking at them pretty extensively for the past few weeks. The CEO is a bit of an oddball. He’s done a lot of his early intellectual work looking at markets from a neo-marxist perspective…but oddballs sometimes make the best startup founders.

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