Tagged: lending

November 22, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Interest is both “the cost of borrowing money for a borrower and the compensation of lending money for a lender,” the team at October notes in a recent update. As a lending platform, October explains they are “right in the middle and connect borrowers to… Read More

November 22, 2022 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alternative investment platform PeerBerry business partners are repaying EUR 1.8 million of war-affected loans. In 9 months of the war, under the Group guarantee mechanism, PeerBerry business partners have already repaid “over EUR 27.02 million, or 54% of the total war-affected obligations towards PeerBerry investors.”… Read More

November 22, 2022 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

At the beginning of November 2022, Debitum Asset-Backed Security offer was 5, TRIPLE DRAGON had 10 underlying assets in 2 ABSs, FLEXIDEA had 1 ABSs with 5 business loans and EVERGREEN CAPITAL had 44 underlying assets in 2 ABSs. At the end of October 2022,… Read More

November 18, 2022 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper Marketplace, which claims to be the “first” peer-to-peer lending platform in the United States, announced the closing of a new $75 million financing “from a fund managed by Neuberger Berman.” This capital enables Prosper “to meet strong consumer demand for its personal loan, credit… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Credisense, a no-code origination, workflow and credit decisioning platform, has partnered with cloud-native SaaS banking and financial services platform Mambu, “to accelerate the modernization of lending systems in the Asia Pacific market.” The partnership will “provide lenders of all sizes with a flexible end-to-end lending… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mintos has shared their latest Insight report, which looks at the alternative lending market of Mintos’ home country: Latvia. Forming part of Northern Europe’s Baltic region, Latvia is “a relatively small EU country with a modest population of 1.9 million.” As a… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European financing platform Debitum notes that its partner company Triple Dragon – an “innovative,” “fast-growing,” specialist lender in the gaming and mobile app industries – in December 2022 will mark their 6th year anniversary. During these years Triple Dragon have reportedly “managed not only to… Read More

November 3, 2022 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zest AI, which claims to be the leader in automating underwriting with more accurate and inclusive lending insights powered by AI, announced that the company has “raised over $50 million in a new growth round.” The investment round was “co-led by existing global software investor… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashfree Payments, India’s payments and API banking solutions company, has rolled out their Disbursement and Collections solution for Lending, “to enable NBFCs and their partner LSPs to comply with the new Digital Lending guidelines.” Cashfree Payments will “facilitate both digital lending and co-lending use cases… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Molo Finance has partnered with Brilliant Solutions, a distributor of mortgages that sits between mortgage brokers and lenders. This partnership “further underlines Molo’s ambitions to offer fully-digital mortgages on a larger scale and it will provide Brilliant Solutions’ membership of directly authorized (DA) brokers with… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto lending platforms, including BlockFi, Ledn, and Nexo, have recently raised their interest rates on deposits. Historically, crypto lending platforms have offered fairly steep returns. The question is, why? They’re citing a lack of options for borrowers, given both Celsius and Voyager going bankrupt, but… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Embedded finance integrator AAZZUR and alternative asset manager Channel Capital have formed “an embedded lending partnership.” The multi-faceted partnership will “see AAZZUR supporting Channel’s digital SME lending strategy.” Channel has invested significantly in “developing proprietary systems using APIs, Open Banking and cloud-based technologies to provide… Read More

October 21, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uplinq Financial Technologies – which claims to be the first global credit assessment and scoring platform for SMB lenders – announced: “a $1.25 million investment from ATX Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas.” This announcement “comes after Uplinq raised $3.5… Read More

October 18, 2022 @ 12:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Regulators in Texas are reportedly probing cryptocurrency platform FTX and company CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. The state securities regulator is looking into whether FTX has offered unregistered securities to Texas residents, which could potentially be a violation of state law. According to reports, Texas’ securities regulator… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Bondora is pleased to announce that borrowers in the Netherlands can now access their online and convenient financial services. By expanding to more countries, Bondora claims it can “help empower more people to live the lives they want with less financial stress.”… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the latest Insight update from Mintos, Martins Sulte, the platform’s CEO and Co-Founder of Mintos, comments on the last quarter on Mintos and provides a “sneak peek” at what you can expect in the following months. As mentioned in a blog post by Mintos,… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 2:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partner – real estate developer SIB Group – has reportedly “repaid investments into a commercial real estate project – business center K32 located in a prestigious place in Vilnius (Kęstučio str.32), the capital of Lithuania.” K32 is a Class A commercial building that… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

For the entire world, and especially for the European region, the year 2022 is associated with significant fluctuations in the global economy, which also “have left a remarkable impact on every local market,” the team at Debitum noted. Such a difficult and critical period has… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the “original,” decentralized stablecoin, announced “the strategic investment of $500M USD (converted from $500M DAI) into a combination of US Short Treasuries and Investment Grade Corporate Bonds.” The move, which will be initiated by DeFi… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 10:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Channel Capital Advisors LLP is pleased to announce “the launch of its specialist Fintech Lending Strategy, with commitments from global institutional investors.” The first $100m tranche of the $300m strategy will be “deployed immediately to leading fintech lenders.” Channel’s fund will be “deployed to digital… Read More