Tagged: lending

November 20, 2024 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Silver Point Capital, a credit investing firm, announced the final closing of Silver Point Specialty Credit Fund III, the latest fund in Silver Point’s Direct Lending franchise. Inclusive of commitments to other direct lending vehicles made during the fundraising period, the total capital raised for… Read More

November 11, 2024 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European SME lender iwoca has reportedly secured £200 million in debt funding. Fintech iwoca, which claims to be one of Europe’s biggest SME lenders, announces a new £200m package of debt funding from Citi and Waterfall Asset Management and reportedly doubles its SME loan offer… Read More

October 31, 2024 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blackstone has announced announced the final close of the first series of its evergreen institutional U.S. direct lending fund, Blackstone Senior Direct Lending Fund (BXD). Blackstone has closed on around $22 billion of investable capital for the inaugural series of BXD and related vehicles, “including… Read More

October 19, 2024 @ 4:19 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), in collaboration with the banking sector, announced several measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their development, upgrade, and transformation. Aimed at enhancing competitiveness and productivity, these initiatives come as SMEs navigate changing market conditions. Since launching… Read More

October 9, 2024 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc, a firm focused on the digital assets space and owner of Netcoins, Blockchain Intelligence Group, and TerraZero, announced that Netcoins USA has signed a partnership agreement with APX Lending, which is said to be a “crypto-backed” lending platform, to provide crypto-backed… Read More

October 9, 2024 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Assetz Capital, an estabished lender to the UK SME property markets announced that it has appointed four senior executives to its Board. Assetz Capital, a company that has been focused on the United Kingdom‘s SME commercial property and residential development markets, announced in a blog… Read More

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