Methodology

TopLending · Editorial standard

How we score lending
platforms — transparently.

Every score on this site is the same formula applied to the same public data. Below: the exact weights, the sources we pull from, and how often the numbers refresh.

Composite weights

The formula.

The overall score is a weighted composite of four independent signals. Each signal is normalised to a 0–5 scale before weighting.

Verified investor reviews
35 %

Aggregated investor feedback from Trustpilot, TradingView and Google Play, weighted by recency. Community reviews posted on TopLending are included after moderation but do not dominate the score.

Investment conditions
25 %

Investment conditions: published yields, minimum investment, buyback guarantees, secondary-market availability and fee transparency.

Regulatory standing
25 %

Regulatory standing: ECSP/MiFID licence, supervising authority and country of incorporation. Unregulated platforms cannot achieve a top score.

Operational momentum
15 %

Operational momentum: financing volume reported in the last 12 months, project pipeline and platform uptime signals.

Sources

Where the data comes from.

Public reviews

Trustpilot · TradingView · Google Play

Reviews are fetched directly from the public pages of each source. We do not edit, rephrase or filter feedback by sentiment.

Community

Moderated user reviews

Reviews submitted on TopLending are screened by editors for spam and personal data before publication.

Regulatory

ECSP & national registers

Licence and supervisor data is verified against ESMA, CNMV, CMVM, Bank of Latvia and equivalent national registers.

Platform disclosures

Yields, fees and volume

Conditions and volume figures come from public statistics pages published by the platforms themselves and are spot-checked by our editors.

Disclosure

How sponsorship is shown.

  • Sponsored placements are labelled. A sponsored platform is pinned to the top of the rankings and marked with a “Sponsored” badge wherever it appears.
  • Affiliate links. Some links to platforms are referral links, and we may earn a commission when you sign up through them.