Mintos
Recommended4.0/5
Seven of my loan originators failed and I still came out ahead, which is why it's where I'd point serious money first.
8–12% €50 min MiFID II Buyback
Return 8–12% Min €50 Regulation MiFID II Protection Buyback
P2P Lending in Malta: 21 Best Platforms Ranked (2026)
P2P lending in Malta works through Europe's cross-border platforms. Every platform in this ranking accepts Maltese investors. The platforms operate EU-wide, most of them across the whole EEA. We've scored all 21 on the same four dimensions we apply everywhere, with our own money on the top picks. Platforms we rate Not recommended stay in the ranking, with a link that only names the platform.
P2P lending platforms available in Malta
All 21 P2P lending platforms in this ranking accept investors from Malta. The loans span consumer, business, real-estate, and agricultural lending. Minimum investments start at €1 and run to €1,000. Advertised returns range from 6% to 16% per year. 11 of the 21 hold a MiFID II or ECSP licence, and the other 10 operate unregulated. The oldest platform here has taken investor money since 2014, the newest since 2023.
This is the same ranking that anchors our European P2P platform ranking. Availability doesn't change the verdicts. Every verified sign-up bonus is listed in the P2P bonus overview, and every market we cover is in P2P lending by country.
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Go & Grow
Recommended3.8/5
Delivers exactly the 6% it advertises, with zero effort required.
Up to 6% €1 min Unregulated None
Return Up to 6% Min €1 Regulation Unregulated Protection None
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VIAINVEST
Investable3.4/5
Licensed, fee-free notes that pay their coupons. The term filter decides your rate.
9–13% €50 min MiFID II Buyback
Return 9–13% Min €50 Regulation MiFID II Protection Buyback -
InRento
Investable3.3/5
InRento registers each mortgage for its investors, as their representative. No InRento mortgage had been enforced by October 2026, and two Polish loans went into recovery that autumn.
9.25–11.5% €500 min ECSP Mortgage
Return 9.25–11.5% Min €500 Regulation ECSP Protection Mortgage -
LANDE
Investable3.3/5
Farm loans, mostly against land or machinery, where defaults have become years, not losses.
9–12% €50 min ECSP Mortgage
Return 9–12% Min €50 Regulation ECSP Protection Mortgage -
Income Marketplace
Investable3.1/5
Buybacks work while its loan originators can pay, but one 2022 default is still only partly repaid.
7–15% €10 min Unregulated Buyback
Return 7–15% Min €10 Regulation Unregulated Protection Buyback -
Nectaro
Investable3.0/5
Coupons paid to the cent under a Latvian licence, but every note funds Nectaro's own DYNINNO group, whose parent company is the largest borrower.
10–14% €50 min MiFID II Buyback
Return 10–14% Min €50 Regulation MiFID II Protection Buyback -
PeerBerry
Investable3.0/5
Its loan originators repaid their war-hit loans in full, but PeerBerry couldn't keep my portfolio invested.
8.5–10% €10 min Unregulated Buyback
Return 8.5–10% Min €10 Regulation Unregulated Protection Buyback -
TWINO
Investable3.0/5
Licensed in Latvia, but every new security is repaid by one Polish card company.
6–12% €1 min MiFID II None
Return 6–12% Min €1 Regulation MiFID II Protection None
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Robocash
High risk2.8/5
No reported freeze since its 2017 launch, on a group with $4.25M of equity against $82.8M owed to investors at the end of 2024.
8–10.5% €10 min Unregulated Buyback
Return 8–10.5% Min €10 Regulation Unregulated Protection Buyback -
Monefit
High risk2.7/5
Pays exactly its advertised rate, but every claim comes from one lending group, with no regulator or buyback behind it.
7.5–10.52% €10 min Unregulated None
Return 7.5–10.52% Min €10 Regulation Unregulated Protection None -
InSoil
High risk2.6/5
Publishes its default figures, and they show 11.19% of its loans defaulting in an average year.
11–15% €100 min ECSP Mortgage
Return 11–15% Min €100 Regulation ECSP Protection Mortgage -
Letsinvest
High risk2.6/5
First-rank mortgages under a Bank of Lithuania licence, but a €1,000 ticket earns each loan's lowest rate and the only loan marked late sits beside a 0% default counter.
7.5–10.5% €1,000 min ECSP Mortgage
Return 7.5–10.5% Min €1,000 Regulation ECSP Protection Mortgage -
Lendermarket
High risk2.3/5
Creditstar's group guarantee backs its loans' buyback, but most loans on offer sit outside the licence and the top rates demand multi-year lock-ins.
Up to 15% €10 min ECSP Buyback
Return Up to 15% Min €10 Regulation ECSP Protection Buyback -
Esketit
High risk2.0/5
Each loan's assignment agreement is readable, but no auditor checks the platform's own accounts. Its founders own the loan originators behind most of the money on offer.
7–12% €10 min Unregulated Buyback
Return 7–12% Min €10 Regulation Unregulated Protection Buyback
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Debitum
Not recommended1.6/5
Licensed in Latvia, but two-thirds of its book funds one forest fund and its sister fund, and Flow's early exit is a request the issuer may refuse.
9–15% €10 min MiFID II Collateral
Return 9–15% Min €10 Regulation MiFID II Protection Collateral -
Hive5
Not recommended1.5/5
Every loan comes from companies Hive5 places in its own group, and the group's audited accounts carry a going-concern warning.
13–16% €10 min Unregulated Buyback
Return 13–16% Min €10 Regulation Unregulated Protection Buyback -
Estateguru
Not recommended1.3/5
About two-thirds of the money out on loan was late or in recovery in October 2026, and the secondary market Estateguru closed in August had no announced reopening by November.
8–11% €50 min ECSP Mortgage
Return 8–11% Min €50 Regulation ECSP Protection Mortgage -
Lonvest
Not recommended1.3/5
Every loan originator belongs to the group Lonvest calls its own, none shows audited accounts, and no published contract contains the "group guarantee" Lonvest markets.
9–13% €50 min Unregulated None
Return 9–13% Min €50 Regulation Unregulated Protection None -
Maclear
Not recommended1.3/5
Its own terms say investor funds aren't privileged if the platform fails.
12–15% €50 min Unregulated Collateral
Return 12–15% Min €50 Regulation Unregulated Protection Collateral -
Loanch
Not recommended1.0/5
Double-digit rates, almost all of the money with one Fingular loan originator, and deposits unavailable for more than 11 weeks in 2026.
Up to 14.5% €10 min Unregulated Buyback
Return Up to 14.5% Min €10 Regulation Unregulated Protection Buyback
Local platforms in Malta
Malta has no domestic P2P lending platforms in operation as of September 2026. Maltese investors lend through the EU’s cross-border platforms instead, under home-country rules. The three strongest in our ranking are Mintos, Go & Grow, and VIAINVEST.
The closest thing is Ektico, a Valletta-based crowdfunding platform aimed at business loans and property debt — its marketplace lists no live deals yet, with the first offerings still in preparation. TokePortal.com Ltd, the Malta-registered company behind Hungary’s equity-crowdfunding platform Tőkeportál, lists equity campaigns, not loans.
Euros, with no conversion step
The platforms in this ranking operate in euros, and Malta is in the eurozone. Funding an account is an ordinary SEPA transfer from a Maltese bank, with no currency conversion anywhere in the chain.
Returns arrive in euros too, so what you see in this ranking is what you measure at home. The exchange-rate exposure that non-euro investors carry doesn't apply.
Regulation in Malta
Malta licenses its domestic platforms through the MFSA under the EU crowdfunding regime, and both named above hold that authorisation — the only two Maltese entries in ESMA’s crowdfunding register as of September 2026. A platform licensed under MiFID II or the EU crowdfunding regime answers to its home-country regulator, and that licence passports across the EU. The MFSA, Malta’s single financial-services regulator, licenses none of the platforms in this ranking.
11 of the 21 hold a MiFID II or ECSP licence, and crowdfunding licences can be checked in ESMA's register. The other 10 operate unregulated, which our Safety dimension prices in.
P2P investments sit outside the €100,000 bank deposit guarantee, and no scheme anywhere covers loans that default. The 5 MiFID II platforms in this ranking (Mintos, VIAINVEST, Nectaro, TWINO, and Debitum) are members of national investor compensation schemes under EU Directive 97/9/EC, which pay up to €20,000 if the firm itself fails to return your instruments or cash. An ECSP licence brings conduct rules but no compensation scheme, and the unregulated platforms carry neither.
How P2P returns are taxed in Malta
Maltese tax residents pay tax on P2P interest at the progressive income-tax rates, which run from 0% to 35% and reach the top bracket above €60,000 of chargeable income, under the Income Tax Act. Malta’s 15% final tax on investment income operates through the payer, covering specified income such as banking interest paid to Maltese residents, and platform interest arrives with no Maltese payer in the chain, so it is declared in the annual tax return at the progressive rates. Residents who aren’t domiciled in Malta are taxed on foreign interest only if it is remitted to Malta, though an ordinarily resident non-domiciled individual whose foreign income of €35,000 or more isn’t all brought into Malta owes at least €5,000 of Maltese tax a year. Both the remittance question and any claim to a reduced investment-income rate are ones for the Commissioner for Tax and Customs or a tax adviser.
On the platform side, 13 of the 21 platforms in this ranking withhold nothing and leave the declaring to you. Where tax is withheld abroad, by a platform or by a borrower or loan originator in its own country, the foreign tax can qualify for a credit under a double-tax treaty or Malta’s unilateral relief rules. The per-platform withholding row sits in each review’s fee table.
A defaulted loan doesn’t reduce the tax on your interest, because Malta deducts bad debts from income only within a trade or business.
Savings-style products that pay their return as the price at which they buy back the loan claims you hold may be taxed differently, so check that treatment with the Commissioner for Tax and Customs or an adviser.
Frequently asked questions
Can Maltese investors use these P2P platforms?
Yes, every platform in this ranking accepts investors from Malta. The platforms operate across the EU, most across the wider EEA, and registration works the same as for any other EU resident.
Can I invest from a Maltese bank account?
Yes, every platform in this ranking takes SEPA transfers, and Maltese bank accounts are SEPA accounts. Deposits are ordinary euro transfers with no currency conversion anywhere in the chain.
Is P2P lending legal in Malta?
Yes, P2P lending is legal for Maltese investors. Maltese residents invest on the platforms in this ranking like any other EU residents. Malta licenses crowdfunding platforms through the MFSA, but has no domestic P2P lending platforms in operation as of September 2026, so supervision of the licensed platforms sits with each one's home-country regulator, and the rest are unregulated.
Are these platforms supervised by the MFSA?
No, none of these platforms is supervised by the MFSA. 11 of the 21 hold a MiFID II or ECSP licence and answer to their home-country regulators, and the rest operate unregulated.
How is P2P lending income taxed in Malta?
Maltese tax residents pay up to 35% on P2P interest, at the progressive income-tax rates, settled through the annual tax return. Residents not domiciled in Malta are taxed on foreign interest only when it is remitted to Malta. 13 of the 21 platforms in this ranking withhold no tax themselves.
What is the minimum investment from Malta?
€1 at Go & Grow is the lowest minimum investment on this list. 19 of the 21 platforms start at €100 or less, so testing with a small amount is realistic.