Tagged: lending

December 6, 2021 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a Fintech offering aggregated access to accounting & business data and analysis, collaborated with LendIt Fintech, which is focused on innovation in lending and virtual banking, in order to release a whitepaper/survey on how direct data access “improves small business lending.” The report highlights… Read More

December 5, 2021 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian P2P lender Robocash has shared the key results for the month of November 2021. Robo.cash writes in a blog post that less than a month before Christmas, they are “pleased to share the platform’s news for November.” The lending platform noted that loans worth… Read More

December 3, 2021 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zest AI, a key provider of software for AI-driven lending, has announced that Blue Federal Credit Union has selected Zest in order to help it deliver faster and more accurate loan decisions “across the credit union’s auto, credit card, and personal loan portfolios.” As mentioned… Read More

December 3, 2021 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexico’s online lending platform and Buy Now, Pay Later or BNPL service provider Kueski has secured $202 million in capital via a debt and equity round that has been led by StepStone Group. Kueski claims to be the largest online consumer lender in Mexico. It… Read More

November 29, 2021 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Laleta Buctkuar notes that she recently joined UK’s Assetz Capital in June of this year, “specifically to focus on bridging products and distribution.” Laleta shared that she began working in financial services more than 20 years ago. Laleta also noted that she had a part-time… Read More

November 29, 2021 @ 5:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eleving Group (previously doing business as Mogo Finance) has shared its unaudited results for the nine months of 2021, “conclusively determining the company’s course to the best financial year in its history.” As mentioned in a blog post published by the Mintos team, the group’s… Read More

November 29, 2021 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Online marketplace lender October is currently active in five European nations. October CEO and Founder Olivier Goy recently noted that he launched October 7 years ago in France. While commenting on the financing landscape 7 years back and now and the challenges and opportunities this… Read More

November 29, 2021 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lender Bondora notes that November is “known to be the gloomiest month in Estonia.” However, as the days became darker, the Bondora team decided to “focus on the bright side.” Here are some of their recent highlights and milestone moments. Over €500 million… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Robo.cash team has published an update that covers (what they claim to be) high-yield investments in the United Kingdom. Robo.cash aims to introduce people to different “safe, high yield investments, what they offer and how to go about them.” As mentioned in the update,… Read More

November 28, 2021 @ 10:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

First came the gender pay gap, and now all eyes seem to be on the investment gap – and this time it’s bigger (a lot bigger), according to an update from easyMoney. UK’s easyMoney, the investment platform from Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s easy family of brands… Read More

November 25, 2021 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish Fintech firm Näktergal, which supports financial institutions with Cloud-powered platform solutions for digitized lending, has acquired EUR 1 million in capital via an investment led by Katalysen & Partners. Other investors are Stefan Backlund, ex- VP Marketing & Communications at Trustly, Jon Wimmercranz, ex-… Read More

November 22, 2021 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lender Bondora notes that after a “booming” September, where the platform managed to recover over €2.3 million in missed payments, these figures “subsided” during the month of October 2021. As mentioned in a report from Bondora, there was a total of €977,354 that… Read More

November 22, 2021 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Peru’s Fintech sector has been expanding at a steady pace during the past few years. There are at least 171 Fintechs operating in the country, as of September 2021. These numbers represent a sizable 16% increase from last year, as well as a yearly growth… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Southeast Asia-based online financing platform Funding Societies announced earlier this week that it teamed up with MUFG Bank Malaysia, which operates as a subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, in order to introduce a Referral Scheme Program exclusively for the banking institution’s corporate customers in… Read More

November 21, 2021 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As with any investment, it’s vital to know the different risks involved in peer-to-peer lending before you put up your cash. Equally important is how platforms evaluate, manage, and “present those risks,” according to a blog post published by EstateGuru. As noted by EstateGuru, P2P… Read More

November 20, 2021 @ 1:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian peer-to-peer lender Robo.cash says that P2P loans increase competition with traditional banking. Robo.cash writes in a blog post that European nations with stable and developed economies are leading “in terms of consumer and business lending.” The complete digitalization of the financing process “becomes one… Read More

November 20, 2021 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IuteCredit has shared its unaudited results for 9M 2021. The firm has released its operational, strategic, and financial highlights along with comments from the company CEO. These details were provided to the AS Mintos Marketplace by IuteCredit, a cooperation partner of Mintos that provides investment… Read More

November 20, 2021 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European online marketplace lender October notes in a recent blog post that as part of the economic support plan following the Covid-19 outbreak, Bpifrance introduced the digital Prêt Rebond (Rebound Loan) back in in April 2020, in partnership with the French Regions, allowing SMEs of… Read More

November 18, 2021 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Online lending platform, NewDay, has introduced an instant access digital credit account with flexible repayment terms which are aimed at protecting its business from the competition from Buy Now, Pay Later or BNPL providers. Newpay provides clients with a credit limit of £5,000, which may… Read More

November 15, 2021 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Blend Network has noted that we should focus on getting Britain moving again by improving lending services. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pledge (a commitment to “Get Britain moving again”) had been made following the end of the first lockdown in… Read More