Tagged: lending

October 6, 2024 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced a progress update on its ambition to provide £5 billion in new lending to the UK social housing sector, with the bank confirming £2.8 billion has been provided up to 31 August 2024. As explained in the update from UK’s NatWest… Read More

October 1, 2024 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Business lending provider NovaLend, which is focused on supporting small businesses in Poland, has reportedly joined PeerBerry with an 8% annual return on investing in business loans secured by a buyback guarantee. According to the update shared by European investment platform PeerBerry, the lender’s loan… Read More

October 1, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FOLK2FOLK, the UK’s peer to peer lending company, has announced Carlos Howard as its new Head of Business Development. Carlos brings over 20 years of leadership “experience in financial services, legal, and manufacturing sectors, with a focus on sales, customer care, operations, and strategic roles.”… Read More

September 29, 2024 @ 12:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hemi and Layerbank will collaborate to provide users with an industry-leading platform for lending and borrowing Hemi-based assets. Hemi Network is teaming up with LayerBank, the 8th largest lending protocol on DeFiLlama, “with $750M in Total Value Locked (TVL).” LayerBank is bringing its lending and… Read More

September 8, 2024 @ 7:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

    Many hardworking employees are finding themselves trapped in the cycle of high-interest loans, forcing them to deplete their savings or retirement funds and compromise their long-term financial security. When customers were asked by Kashable, a provider of “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group with ~$4.5 billion in client assets, has issued the industry-first syndicated loan backed by Bitcoin (BTC) to premier crypto lender Ledn, which will be used to fund the growth of Ledn’s retail lending operations. Syndicated among Sygnum’s institutional… Read More

August 21, 2024 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In response to increasing market demand for tokenized real-world assets from fund issuers and investors, Provenance Blockchain Labs (ProvLabs), a blockchain development company building a modern financial services operating system with the dApps and expertise TradFi needs to digitize trillions of dollars of assets on… Read More

August 14, 2024 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is enhancing its Open Banking for Lending program, delivered with Argyle, to streamline the lending process and give consumers more agency over their financial lives. With new features, Mastercard has the ability to “provide income and employment coverage to the estimated 95… Read More

August 11, 2024 @ 4:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Automotive lending has been quickly transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) with the promise of faster, more accurate and more cost-effective credit decisions and approval processes. Auto dealers are not exactly ready to embrace the new technology. According to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Dealer Financing… Read More

August 8, 2024 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ThinCats, which aims to help the mid-sized business thrive, has secured £75 million mezzanine funding from CPP Investments. The facility is the latest line of funding “secured by ThinCats and reflects the credit quality of the UK mid-sized businesses ThinCats targets its lending.” CPP Investments’… Read More

August 8, 2024 @ 6:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE:ARES) announced that funds managed by its Credit Group closed “approximately $12.8 billion in U.S. direct lending commitments across 93 transactions during the second quarter of 2024 and approximately $38.3 billion in direct lending commitments across 295 transactions in the 12 months… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitstamp is presenting the latest insights from their June 2024 Lending Performance Report for Bitstamp Earn Lending. Whether you’re new to crypto lending or a seasoned expert, this update from Bitstamp reportedly offers valuable information “on the current lending landscape.” In collaboration with Tesseract, Bitstamp… Read More

July 19, 2024 @ 2:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed an interpretive rule explaining that many paycheck advance products, sometimes marketed as “earned wage” products, are consumer loans subject to the Truth in Lending Act. The guidance will ensure that lenders “understand their legal obligations to disclose the… Read More

July 12, 2024 @ 9:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Metro Bank has recently announced that it launched its first Limited Company Buy-to-Let product as part of its continued focus on becoming a leading specialist lender. Owning a property through a Limited Company structure “can be more tax efficient than owning the same property on… Read More

July 9, 2024 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, has lent several hundred million pound to British businesses in the first half of this year, as it continues its track record of supporting the most ambitious and innovative businesses across the UK. OakNorth’s focus has been on “supporting… Read More

July 8, 2024 @ 9:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital, a funder in the SME development lending market, announce a significant enhancement to its development lending solutions, “offering stronger initial day one advances to developers on schemes up to 70% LTGDV.” This strategic offer is designed to equip housebuilders “with robust financial support… Read More

July 6, 2024 @ 1:42 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Canada’s financial regulator announced on Friday that it will delay the implementation of new rules requiring banks to change how they calculate lending risks, a move intended to give the country’s banks more time to adapt, Bloomberg has reported. The Office of the Superintendent of… Read More

July 2, 2024 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) study released today found that consumer affordability challenges and tighter lending restraints are impacting new vehicle originations across the auto industry. The study, Originating Auto Loans With Confidence, “explored trends in auto originations, consumer savings, debt burdens and credit scores in… Read More

June 30, 2024 @ 9:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

multifi are a lending service for SMEs, empowering innovative businesses to reach the next level of growth and cover emergencies. However, to offer the solution that SMEs were crying out for, they “needed to offer loans that were fast and easily accessible.” For that, they… Read More

June 23, 2024 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru, which is currently facing significant operational challenges, has shared their latest loan portfolio overview for May 2024. In May, although Estateguru says it experienced “a temporary dip in repayments, recoveries, and funded amounts, there were several positive developments.” Estateguru reveals that they “secured a… Read More