Tagged: lending

August 6, 2022 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ranqx, the digital lending platform built for lenders to small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), has expanded its working relationship with Visa (NYSE: V) into North America. Before collaborating with Visa in North America, Ranqx worked cooperatively with Visa in its Asia Pacific region. Under the latest… Read More

August 5, 2022 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Advanced smart contracts are “finally coming” to Bitcoin. The DFINITY R&D team has announced “the beta release of the Internet Computer’s direct integration with the Bitcoin network, which eliminates any reliance on a trusted intermediary or bridge.” Developers can immediately “begin testing and building with… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The volume of P2P funding decreased from 511 million Euros in May 2022 to 447 million euros in June 2022, i.e. by 13%, according to an update shared by Robo.cash. The fourth quarter of 2021 “saw significant growth in P2P lending, but so far in… Read More

July 31, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, Jorn van Duijnhoven was asked to take on the role of Head of Customer Success at European online lender at October. Jorn van Duijnhoven has been appointed “due to changes” within October’s organization. He stated: “I have to say that I didn’t see it… Read More

July 31, 2022 @ 8:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At the beginning of July 2022, the Debitum Asset-Backed Security (ABS) offer was 5, TRIPLE DRAGON had 15 underlying assets in 3 ABSs, EVERGREEN CAPITAL had 45 underlying assets in 2 ABSs. The number of registered users (activated) in June 2022 “reached 9357 registered users.”… Read More

July 29, 2022 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CLST, an institutional-only lending and borrowing venue for stablecoins and crypto assets, has closed a seed round, led by Spartan Group, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, GSR, Menai Financial Group, Luno Expeditions, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, and TX Ventures – the… Read More

July 29, 2022 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lokyata, a company focused on delivering products that digitize, automate, and scale lenders’ credit decisions, has released a number of platform enhancements “to help lenders further automate loan decisioning to save time, minimize manual work, standardize processes, and improve underwriting performance.” The company “sees particular… Read More

July 22, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TomoCredit, the immigrant founded credit card lending to more than 40 million credit-“invisible” immigrants and international students with no credit history in the U.S, announced that it raised $122 million in equity and debt. The investment round has attracted investors “including Morgan Stanley’s Next Level… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FairPlay, which claims to be the world’s first “Fairness-as-a-Service” solution for algorithmic decision-making, announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The investment round was “led by Nyca Partners, with participation from Cross River Digital Ventures, Third Prime, Fin Capital, TTV, Nevcaut… Read More

July 20, 2022 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite the ongoing holiday season, EstateGuru investors reportedly financed €14.1 million worth of loans during the month of June 2022. All of the primary markets they operate in performed “exceptionally,” led by Estonia (€3.5M), Germany (€3.0M) and Lithuania (€2.7M). EstateGuru further revealed that they witnessed… Read More

July 19, 2022 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper recently shared their performance data from the Prosper Portfolio for June 2022. Highlights from the Prosper Performance Update – June 2022 are as follows: In June, approximately 57% of loan originations “were rated AA-B, remaining stable month-over-month.” The average loan size in June “decreased… Read More

July 18, 2022 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

For those interested in how Go & Grow works, Bondora recently shared information about what makes it successful (mainly its portfolio distribution). Bondora has provided details on how the claims added to Go & Grow are distributed, the most common ratings, the “most popular” goal… Read More

July 18, 2022 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This month PeerBerry repaid more than EUR 1.4 million of “war-affected” loans. As confirmed in a blog post, PeerBerry business partners are “repaying EUR 1,2 million of war-affected Ukrainian and Russian short-term loans.” An additional amount of “up to EUR 200 000 of war-affected real… Read More

July 12, 2022 @ 4:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Morpho Labs, a French research and software development firm, has raised $18 million to pursue its vision of a new decentralized lending protocol. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Variant. The company states that approximately 100 investors participate in the funding… Read More

July 7, 2022 @ 4:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FNB Community Bank and Teslar Software announced their partnership “to streamline and automate lending processes.” The community bank is leveraging Teslar’s tracking and loan management software “to save time and increase operational efficiencies, freeing lenders to focus on the borrower experience.” Bill Croak, president and… Read More

July 6, 2022 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Robo.cash noted that they will continue updating clients on the work of platform originators in 2022. RC Riga Singapore started the year confidently, “having significantly increased its loan portfolio.” Here are some key points shared by the Robocash team: 78% of loans… Read More

July 6, 2022 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Last year, October had carried out a survey among their community of lenders in order to gain insights into the topics they were “eager to learn more about.” One topic came back repeatedly: their platform statistics. To answer your questions related to stats, October is… Read More

July 5, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest Mintos Risk Score updates based on developments and data from the first quarter of 2022 are live on the Mintos platform. The latest risk evaluation is “based on the first quarter of 2022, but also on some information sourced from the current payments… Read More

July 4, 2022 @ 9:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Another loan that was issued by Chain Finance has now “been recovered,” according to an update from Debitum. The loan was issued to a Lithuanian licensed financial institution and now “100% of principal amount, interest, and penalty amount for being late have been credited to… Read More

July 3, 2022 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra recently unveiled its embedded consumer lending solution, “enabling access to traditional regulated lending options for consumers at point-of-sale (POS).” Financial institutions, distributors and merchants will “benefit from a platform that makes it easy for their customers to access lending options.” For end consumers, Finastra… Read More