[사회]After massive advertisement for’P2P investment’…toss alliances sued

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YTN reported on the news that investors who made small investments in real estate through the mobile financial service’Toss’ are going to a class action lawsuit.

It was revealed that Toss advertised extensively and the affiliated investment company sold the products of the companies accused of pre-sale fraud.

I am interested in whether it will lead to the investigation of the toss following the investigation of the investment company.

Reporter Park Ki-wan reports.

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In 2017, Toss launched a real estate micro-investment service in partnership with five P2P investment companies.

People came to the advantage of being able to easily invest with the toss account registered in the app.

As the popularity of small-sized investment products grew, other fintech companies began to form partnerships with P2P companies.

The cumulative domestic loan amount through P2P has increased nearly 18 times in 4 years.

Toss confessed that he grew up by leading the relevant market.

[이승건 / ‘토스 운영’ 비바리퍼블리카 대표 (지난 2019년 12월) : 이미 시장에서 한 번도 존재한 적이 없던 서비스를 토스는 늘 시장에서 항상 앞서서 가장 먼저 런칭 했을 뿐만 아니라 이것이 업계 표준으로 자리 잡으면서 수많은 IT 기업이라든지 금융기관들이 토스의 서비스를 참고해서….]

But soon after, problems began to emerge in investment products.

In 2019, an officetel product in Gimhae advertised on Toss was overdue in less than a year.

Investors sued the P2P company that sold it, and the investigation revealed that the construction contractor who received the investment loan had sold it falsely.

[김재범 / ‘토스’ 부동산 소액투자자 : 정상적인 상품을 토스 플랫폼에서 거래하게 하긴 했나 하는 의구심이 들면서 진짜 분노도 들었고, 배신감도 많이 들었습니다.]

Similar cases followed, with a townhouse investment product in Jeju Island identified as an illegal building.

The P2P company claimed that it did not know there was a problem with the product, but the police are investigating whether they sold it even though they knew it was insolvent.

[양태영 / ‘P2P 업체’ 테라펀딩 대표 : 저희가 그렇게 짧은, 단기적인 시각을 가지고 사업을 하진 않았어요. 채권 추심 열심히 하는 것 말고는 선관주의 의무 다하는 게 저희가 할 수 있는 최선인 것 같아요.]

Toss, which was affiliated with a company that was being investigated, also had an arrow of criticism, so Toss decided to end the contract with the accused company from next month.

[토스 관계자 : P2P 투자하시는 수요 자체가 많이 줄었고, 처음으로 광고 계약 만료가 돌아온 테라펀딩과는 재계약을 안 하기로 했고….]

If the suspicion of the investment company is confirmed, the investigation is expected to expand to the toss that was affiliated with.

Toss, which has achieved sales of over 100 billion won in 5 years since its appearance, and is promoting even the launch of an internet bank.

Behind the remarkable rapid growth was the clamor of investors.

YTN Park Ki-wan[[email protected]]is.

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