Read about all the activity happening within the Pigeon community, and get an inside look into the developments taking place in our flock.

Stories From Our Flock | Pigeon

A lot of amazing things have been happening lately! From our new user experience to our featured article in Forbes, and also our recent fundraising announcement, it's been a whirlwind of a start to the year for us.

Since the beginning, we've done our very best to provide people all across the world with a safe, secure, and easy-to-use platform for anyone to lend and borrow money with the people they know and care about. Our community and technology are built on trust and that trust powers every facet of Pigeon. 🐣 

Even with so much good happening within our community, today we are taking a moment to pause and reiterate our commitment to trust. Recently, we've been made aware of individuals, groups, and entities using our name, image, or likeness to portray our services in an unethical light. Over the past few weeks, the team behind the Pigeon magic has been working on thwarting external efforts to use Pigeon's likeness to defraud and scam vulnerable individuals across the world.

Over the recent days, we've seen and heard about:

Members of Facebook groups pretending to be employees of Pigeon in order to defraud uninformed individuals;

Anonymous individuals on the Internet creating and distributing Typeforms or other survey tools to collect sensitive personal data & information of susceptible people looking to apply for loans using our likeness;

Promises of unknown groups & individuals claiming to give out loans on our behalf after filling out an application and submitting an 'origination fee' via methods like CashApp or Zelle;

Various forms of fraud negatively affecting our customers previously executed via methods of pre-paid card usage;

These unethical and immoral acts described above are in no way associated with Pigeon, our employees, brand, community, name, image, or likeness.

With economic activity slowing down across the world, prices rising, and financial uncertainty hitting more folks than ever before, we recognize that times are tough right now. Whether you are providing for your family or looking to make ends meet, we want to do everything in our power to make Pigeon the best service it can be so that we can help you through these difficult times and not hurt you.

As we continue to grow and better enable people to help one another across the world, we want to make sure you protect yourself and make smart decisions as you interact with the community that is Pigeon. So today we are reaffirming our commitment to do right by you!

Please protect yourself, and keep in mind these things when interacting with Pigeon:

When in doubt, send us a note at support@usepigeon.io or chat us online via our website.

Pigeon will never ask for personal information outside our official channels.

Pigeon does not currently provide loans to anyone; we are not a licensed lender or partnered with one that enables us to distribute loans.

Our official email and messaging channels end in @usepigeon.io or @pigeonloans.io, we do not own addresses ending in Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, or other domain name providers.

Pigeon is a free platform that will not charge you any mandatory fees (i.e., no origination fees, no subscription fees, no forced costs to use our services).

Pigeon employees will never reach out to you outside of official company channels.

Our official business names are Pigeon or Pigeon Loans, Inc. - we do not operate under any other name.

Our official channels, contact information, social media, posts, and more can all be found on our homepage www.usepigeon.io 😊

We're excited to continue impacting lives for the better! We'll continue to support you as you continue to support us.

At Pigeon Loans we are committed to providing you the smartest and safest platform to lend or borrow money with your friends and family. Protect yourself and watch out for fraudulent activity, scams, or other unethical behavior that may be associated with our likeness. 🧡

Word of Caution: Protect Yourself

Pigeon is going to be free for all of our users.

Since day one, we’ve operated from an ethos of helping our users achieve their financial dreams while protecting their relationships. Many of the people we serve have been left out of the traditional credit system and are forced to go to predatory lenders who leave them worse off than when they started. We believe that making ‘friends and family loans’ a more common and positive experience will be great for people across the country.

The recent rise in inflation and record-breaking consumer debt has pushed millions to the financial brink. In a scenario where options are limited, going to friends and family for loans is the best course for many. A recent Bloomberg article highlighted the explosion of loans between people who know each other. The rise of this type of lending has come disproportionately from traditionally disadvantaged minority groups. 

We are serving the nearly 27 million Americans who are already borrowing from friends and family. The pain of broken friendships and awkward interactions should be reduced. Pigeon does just this. We make it easier for a lender to offer a helping hand while giving borrowers a better chance to reach their financial goals.

In an effort to help these millions of borrowers we are making our core lending product 100% free to use. Yes, completely free!

How will we make money? As the Pigeon community continues to grow, we will be able to offer our users referrals to other fintech products, banks, and partners that can support our customer’s journey. 

To cover costs, we will also continue to collect a small transaction fee (i.e. 3%) from borrowers or lenders who choose to move money using a debit or credit card on our platform, instead of using our ACH Bank Transfer or Offline Payment options for which Pigeon charges no fees at all. We strongly believe that this new model serves us well as a company while also putting the financial situation of our users first.

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Now anyone can use Pigeon free of charge. Helping out someone in need shouldn't come at a cost, so because of this belief, our platform and all of its services are now free to use.

Pigeon Is Now Free

Today we're welcoming our newest member to the Pigeon team - Brennan Batalla! We got a chance to sit down and talk with our newest Director of Engineering and got the inside scoop into his life & what brought him to Pigeon. 🐣

My name is Brennan, and I am the newest member of the Pigeon team coming in as the Director of Engineering. I could not be more excited to be working for such an innovative company and supportive team, backed by an equally supportive community propelling us forward. I want to use this post as a way for you all to get to know a little bit more about me and what I will be bringing to the Pigeon team. 

Let’s start from the beginning, I was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey and where I currently still reside. My father moved to the USA from Ecuador before I was born, making me a first-generation American on my Dad’s side. I attended Rowan University in South Jersey where I graduated in 2015 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. A few years later, I furthered my education and received a Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. 

During my career, I have worked for some of the biggest companies: Amazon, ATT, Comcast, and Capital One. I am an avid coder, and working for big companies often strained my freedom to learn and experiment, so after my day job, I would immediately pick up my personal laptop and start building an app or website for a new idea I came up with, or start playing with a new technology I was curious about. The experience I gained from working for these large tech giants was valuable, but I have never felt quite at home, like a bird without a flock.

When I was searching for my next home, Pigeon really stood out to me as a company. I immediately was enticed by the product and aligned with the company’s goals and mission. After meeting with the company’s founder, Brian, and learning more about the company, I knew that I had found my flock. From my own experience, without Pigeon, asking for money from friends or family can be a risky business, adding unnecessary strain to close personal relationships. With the service and documentation Pigeon provides, it has proven time and time again to ease those tensions. Asking for money doesn’t need to stress relationships.

Some more about myself: When I am not coding, you can usually find me at the gym, running, or grabbing beers with friends. I love to travel, prior to COVID when international travel was easier, I often vacationed abroad to Europe. Since Covid, I have road-tripped across the U.S. three times! Just last month I returned from an unbelievable 6-month cross-country road trip with my girlfriend in my Jeep Grand Cherokee. During that trip, we stopped at many of the great national parks, Zion being my favorite, followed closely by Rocky Mountain National Park. I am also a big snowboarder; this past winter I went snowboarding 18 times at various resorts in Oregon, Utah, and Colorado! 

So, yea, that’s me. I’m more than excited to be part of the team and am already amazed by how far Pigeon has come. I am honored to be part of the journey moving forward! If you’re curious to learn more, feel free to find me on LinkedIn, I am always happy to connect. 

There are so many amazing people working behind the scenes to make Pigeon Loans an amazing community for everyone. Take some time to learn about our Director of Engineering - Brennan Batalla!