Tagged: online lending

March 14, 2018 @ 11:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Avail Finance, an India-based app-only online lending platform, has successfully secured $17 million in both equity and debt funding. The company stated that venture capital fund Matrix Partners led equity round while  Ola founders Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati, Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal, Kunal Shah, co-founder of Freecharge;… Read More

March 13, 2018 @ 6:40 am By JD Alois  |  

LendingBlock is a new crypto-based lending platforms that is the midst of an initial coin offering (ICO). There are other crypto-based lending platforms out there but the ones I have looked at recently are more about getting Fiat by using your cypto as collateral. LendingBlock… Read More

March 9, 2018 @ 7:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lendix has originated approximately €10 million in loans during its first year of operation in Spain. This is according to multiple reports in Spanish press that stated Lendix Spain is on track to lend €30 million during 2018. In total 25 businesses financed projects on the online… Read More

March 8, 2018 @ 3:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Unchained Capital reports it will immediately begin offering cryptocurrency secured loans to both consumers and businesses in California having received Finance Lender License in the state. Unchained Capital says it is a new kind of financial services company that offers loans secured with Bitcoin as… Read More

March 8, 2018 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, online lender Funding Circle announced investors lent more than £113 million to over 1,700 UK businesses throughout the month of February. Funding Circle also reported that over the last six months investors have helped more than 10,200 small businesses be able to gain access… Read More

March 8, 2018 @ 7:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based peer-to-peer lender Landbay announced this week it has hit its £100 million in lending milestone. The online lending platform achieved its half-way point in lending this past September and revealed that since then momentum has accelerated to result in near-on double of lending volumes… Read More

March 7, 2018 @ 7:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

  CommonBond, an online lending platform servicing the student loan market, has received its first triple A rating for securitization. Moody’s has assigned provisional ratings of (P)Aaa (sf) to Class A-1 and A-2 notes to be issued by CommonBond Student Loan Trust 2018-A-GS (CBSLT 2018-A-GS)…. Read More

March 5, 2018 @ 3:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Collateral, a UK-based peer to peer lending platform, has reportedly gone into administration after trading without a proper license. According to various reports, a letter was sent to investors from the company’s administrator, named Gordon Craig, that stated the company was operating in the belief that… Read More

March 5, 2018 @ 1:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Folk2Folk, a peer-to-peer (P2P0 lending platform for local and rural businesses, announced on Monday it has now lent £200 million, providing a valuable source of capital to hundreds of local businesses across the UK. According to the online lending, this milestone demonstrates the strong demand… Read More

March 5, 2018 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

BondMason, a direct lending service for investors that focuses on peer to peer lending opportunities, has released a note on recent actions in the SIPP space (Self Invested Pension Plans). Stephen Findlay, CEO of BondMason, says that SIPP administrators are right to tread carefully when reviewing… Read More

February 27, 2018 @ 5:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Three Australian groups have joined together to produce a report that outlines the steps taken by Fintech lenders to boost both transparency and disclosure. FinTech Australia, the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, and theBankDoctor published a report today that reviews Fintech lending to… Read More

February 27, 2018 @ 2:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mintos, an online marketplace that provides individuals with a simplified way to invest in loans originated by a variety of alternative lending companies around the world, announced on Tuesday it has welcomed its first loan originator from the UK. This news comes less than two… Read More

February 27, 2018 @ 10:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Pagaya Investments, a Fintech company in the asset management space, has received $75 million in debt financing from Citi. Simultaneously, Pagaya announced the creation of the “Opportunity Fund” to meet growing institutional interest in consumer credit as an asset class. Launched in2016, Pagaya has raied… Read More

February 24, 2018 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

The New York Federal Reserve has published a staff report pertaining to “The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending”. Authored by Andreas Fuster, Matthew Plosser, Philipp Schnabl, and James Vickery, the research asserts that Fintech is improving the mortgage lending market by making it more efficient… Read More

February 22, 2018 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lending platform LendingClub (NYSE:LC) has filed an 8K with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding interest rate changes. For most industry followers this shift should come as no surprise. With the Federal Reserve increasing their benchmark rates, with several increases expected in 2018, it… Read More

February 21, 2018 @ 10:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spotcap has announced Vishal Uppal as the winner of the Fintech Scholarship 2017. The first of its kind in Australia, a country that is a hotbed of Fintech innovation relative to its size, the scholarship awards a single aspiring graduate with an interest in Fintech… Read More

February 18, 2018 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

PeerIQ, a leading data and analytics platform operating in the online lending sector, has formed a new partnership with Cross River Bank. The news was disseminated in a press release on Friday. The objective of the partnership is to boost the relationship between small bank… Read More

February 16, 2018 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Prospa, a Sydney based online lender servicing the SME market, has received a nice recognition as it took the top spot for a high growth firm in Asia Pacific. According to a recent ranking of the top 1000 firms in Asia-Pacific by the FT, Prospa… Read More

February 16, 2018 @ 7:46 am By Therese Torris  |  

After France, Spain and Italy, Lendix is launching operations in Germany and the Netherlands. The company reaffirms its strategy to be first to market with a pan-European strategy, leveraging its marketplace business model through the addition of local teams. “We’re not pivoting. We’re remaining true… Read More

February 14, 2018 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Mintos, an online marketplace that provides individuals with a simplified way to invest in loans originated by a variety of alternative lending companies around the world, has announced a new milestone having topped the half a billion euro mark in cumulative investments by investors. Reportedly,… Read More