Tagged: loans

July 30, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) invoice finance platforms, notes that during the month of July 2021, new changes to the Prompt Payment Code came into effect. Announced in January of this year, the changes have been designed “to strengthen the position… Read More

July 24, 2021 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MPOWER Financing, a global education loan provider, recently secured an equity investment of $100 million. The new funding is in addition to the $60 million MPOWER raised earlier this year from Tilden Park Capital Management that also participated in the current round along with ETS… Read More

July 22, 2021 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Provenance is a Cosmos-powered blockchain whose goal is to create a “vibrant” ecosystem of decentralized financial (DeFi) services for a variety of financial institutions such as asset originators, fund managers, servicers, banks, and investors. The Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain is “distinguished by three elements:… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 10:25 pm By Priyanka Pani  |  

MPOWER Financing, a global education loan provider, has raised an equity investment of US$100 million. The new funding is in addition to the US$30 million MPOWER raised earlier this year from Tilden Park Capital Management that also participated in the current round along with ETS… Read More

July 18, 2021 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) invoice finance platforms, acknowledges that they understand the “stresses” and “frustrations” that small businesses go through on daily basis. Although they cannot fix everything, the company explains that they can provide you the financial “firepower” you… Read More

July 17, 2021 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s leading property finance Fintech LendInvest, which recently became a publicly-traded firm. with shares now trading on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market, under the ticker symbol “LINV,” has shared 10 notable Buy-to-Let deals from a week in June 2021. The LendInvest team writes in… Read More

July 13, 2021 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s digital payments giant Paytm recently introduced Paytm Postpaid Mini, which allows users to acquire small ticket instant loans to help them with managing their monthly or everyday expenses The Paytm team notes in a blog post that their goal is to bring clients the… Read More

July 7, 2021 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Creditspring, the Financial Conduct Authority-regulated consumer credit solution provider, now claims around 50,000 members since it launched operations back in 2016. This is a key milestone for Creditspring, a company that aims to improve the financial wellbeing of 100,000 members by the end of… Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank CTBC Indonesia, which operates as a special unit of CTBC Bank, an established private bank in Taiwan, recently revealed that it has introduced a digital lending platform for a personal loan product, known as KTA Dana Cinta. The KTA Dana Cinta product lets you… Read More

June 21, 2021 @ 11:39 pm By Priyanka Pani  |  

London-based digital lender White Oak has facilitated loans worth £400 million to SMEs impacted by the pandemic under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). Talking about the adverse impact of the pandemic on small businesses across the UK, Andy Davies, Managing Director of White… Read More

May 28, 2021 @ 5:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), an SME lender that facilitates loans in both the U.S. and parts of Europe, announced on Friday it has teamed up with Atom Bank to provide £300 million of new funding to small businesses. Through the collaboration, Atom will use… Read More

May 16, 2021 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest, a property finance Fintech, notes that embedding technology throughout their lending process has been “key to making your deals complete quicker and more efficiently.” During the past few months, LendInvest has been working on bringing its clients a broker portal that will see the… Read More

May 11, 2021 @ 11:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday its latest Small Business Lending Index reported small business loan approval percentages at big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) dipped slightly to 13.4% in April from 13.5% in March 2021. The Index also revealed that small banks’ approvals have dropped to… Read More

May 2, 2021 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-based digital banking challenger ZA Bank has revealed that it’s providing a financing guarantee facility of as much as HKD 18 million (appr. $2.32 million). The plan is referred to as the “ZME $18M Loan.” The new product is described as a business revolving… Read More

April 25, 2021 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer-to-peer lending marketplace Mintos revealed, earlier this week, that the lending firm E-Cash has informed them of its intentions to “wind down” the business. The Mintos team noted that E-Cash is currently in the process of “working out the details” of how it plans to… Read More

April 23, 2021 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fintech company Fintern has secured £32 million in funding in order to expand access to affordable loans in the United Kingdom. On the back of their official launch last month, the London-headquartered startup has confirmed that it raised £32 million in equity and debt… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 1:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  U.S.-based money experience company MX announced on Tuesday it has partnered with digital asset verification platform FormFree to speed up loan approval processing and close more than one million loans. According to MX, FormFree improves lenders’ ability to make more informed decisions about borrowers… Read More

April 7, 2021 @ 3:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  SoFi, one of the most successful fintechs in the U.S., announced on Tuesday it has launched auto loan refinancing through its financial services product comparison platform, Lantern. SoFi reported it launched auto loan refinancing through its partnership with MotoRefi, an auto fintech startup on a… Read More

March 24, 2021 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Virgin Money announced on Tuesday it is launching sustainability-linked loans (SLL) for all UK companies. According to Virgin Money, the SLLs will reduce the cost of finance for those businesses whose core activities proactively help the economy transition to a more sustainable model. Virgin Money… Read More

March 15, 2021 @ 7:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  PowerPay, a provider of home improvement financing, recently announced it has surpassed $1 billion in loan originations following its launch in December 2019. The company reported that through its network of 7,000 home improvement contractors, it has financed more than 50,000 projects nationwide with an average project… Read More