Tagged: lending

September 27, 2021 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lending platform Bondora reveals that the number of loans recovered and the amount of cash recovered from missed or skipped payments “jumped higher in August.” This is the opposite of the trend observed in the month of July 2021, which saw these two… Read More

September 26, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Turkey-headquartered Colendi, a micro lending and credit scoring Fintech firm, has acquired $30 million in capital via a Series A round. Colendi’s investment round has been led by Re-Pie Asset Management Company, a Turkey-based alternative asset management company. The funding has been provided via Re-Pie’s… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The newly formed financing firm in Saudi Arabia, Positive Facilities Co. Ltd. (Ejabiah), has reportedly entered an agreement with Path Solutions for the introduction of its interest-free Core banking platform. Ejabiah will be providing a unique 0% interest financing product, which is somewhat similar to… Read More

September 23, 2021 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra has introduced Total Lending Home, a Cloud-powered platform for deploying and managing the Total Lending suite of solutions. Lending products offered via the Total Lending Home portal reportedly include Fusion LaserPro, Fusion DepositPro, Fusion Compliance Reporter and ProSign Online, with more lending solutions to… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Numerated (NASDAQ: IBCP), the Fintech firm that’s making business banking easier for financial institutions and their customers, reveals that it has teamed up with Independent Bank, a $4.5 billion community bank with over 60 locations across Michigan’s lower peninsula. Through their partnership, Independent Bank will be… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HCL Technologies, a global tech firm, has agreed to a multi-year application services transformation partnership with Lendico, which is a brand of ING Germany, in order to deliver application and engineering services to help it create a digital platform that makes business banking faster and… Read More

September 20, 2021 @ 9:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bondora secondary market experienced a “complete trend reversal” in August 2021. The European P2P lender reveals that there was a substantial 107.9% growth when compared to the month of July 2021. This growth equates to “a total of €338,235 being transacted on the Secondary… Read More

September 20, 2021 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In August 2021, investors remained quite active on European online investment platform EstateGuru and financed a total of €17.0M worth of loans (84 loans). As expected, the top-performing markets on EstateGuru this past month were Estonia and Germany, with loan volumes of €5.3M and €6.9M,… Read More

September 19, 2021 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European online lender October explains that they aim to effectively connect borrowers and lenders. Lenders are able to invest their savings “usefully” and “profitably” in order to facilitate the funding of the “real economy” while companies or businesses “find new, simple and effective sources of… Read More

September 19, 2021 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dedicated prime property lender CapitalRise has reportedly provided a mezzanine facility for a £4 million luxury penthouse located in Hyde Park. The facility — “agreed at 73% LTV on a 12-month term” — has been paired up with a development exit loan offered by a… Read More

September 18, 2021 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morgan McCandless, Relationship Director at Assetz Capital, a marketplace lending platform originating secured loans, reveals that he re-joined Assetz in June of this year, having previously worked on the Northern Ireland portfolio as a consultant, before the COVID outbreak. As a Relationship Director covering Northern… Read More

September 17, 2021 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lendio, the leading SME financial solutions marketplace, reveals that it has made an asset purchase of Laso’s Loan Origination Software (LOS) and insights technology, which should help further its goal of supporting SMBs. This should serve as the foundation for a customer-centric product offering for… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper, a marketplace lending company that connects borrowers and investors with over $17B in loans issued via its platform, has shared its Performance Update Report for the month of August 2021. As noted in the report prepared by Haiyan Huang from Prosper, dated September 15,… Read More

September 16, 2021 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a Fintech firm offering aggregated access to business and accounting data and analysis, has introduced PreciseMatch, which is described as an intelligent transaction mapping technology that “automatically cross-validates accounting systems with synced banking accounts, allowing for smarter, more efficient small business lending decisions.” Banking… Read More

September 13, 2021 @ 8:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Egypt-based Kashat, a microloan services platform, has acquired $1.75 million in capital as part of a bridge round, according to a report from Magnitt. Kashat’s investment round has been led by VC fund Launch Africa Ventures, and also included contributions from regional investors, the report… Read More

September 13, 2021 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hoard Exchange, which aims to facilitate “true ownership” of virtual game assets on Ethereum,  is a fast-growing non-fungible token (NFTs) marketplace that was introduced back in 2018. The platform was initially developed as a reliable blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT) network. The community members… Read More

September 13, 2021 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stockholm-headquartered Qred, a small business lending service provider, has reportedly received a substantial investment from Nordic Capital. Although the exact amount invested has not been shared publicly, Sweden’s Breakit.se reveals that Nordic Capital may have invested just over half a billion kronor (appr. €49 million)… Read More

September 12, 2021 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Kuflink, a platform that connects borrowers with lenders, by providing a steady flow of accessible finance and competitive interest rates, reveals that new features have been added for September 2021. The Kuflink technology team continued to work to bring updated features for September 2021… Read More

September 12, 2021 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Lithuania’s Debitum, a borderless financing platform, has shared important information for their investors, the company’s Financial report Q2, 2021. As noted in a blog post by Debitum, the document presents the financial and business performance of the SIA DN Operator (the platform… Read More

September 12, 2021 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European P2P lending service Bondora reveals that during the month of August 2021, there were 2,155 new investors that joined their platform, bringing the total number of investors to 172,809 individuals. More than €472M has now been invested via Bondora, and investors have earned over… Read More