Tagged: lending

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

June 21, 2024 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Numerated has announced a strategic investment from Citi (NYSE:C). Citi will also engage Numerated to “provide its financial spreading solution for the bank’s enterprise lending operations.” Numerated is a modular commercial lending platform “delivering efficient experiences to any or all parts of the credit process.”… Read More

June 5, 2024 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PhonePe expanded its loan distribution offerings with the launch of secured lending products on its platform. Partnering with a network of trusted banks, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and fintechs, PhonePe armed “with its distribution strength of 535+ Million registered users, aims to create a powerful and… Read More

May 30, 2024 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

‍Three in ten SME finance professionals (28%) report that the most requested loan amount at the start of 2024 was over £100,000, 56% higher than the same period last year, according to iwoca’s Q1 2024 SME Expert Index. The new research, conducted with SME finance… Read More

May 21, 2024 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Businesses looking for short-term capital can access funding in rapid time thanks to a new partnership between Experian and alternative lender, TRIVER. TRIVER aims to enhance the SME lending process “by underwriting the risk of small business borrowing quickly and easily, providing advances on business… Read More

May 19, 2024 @ 2:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

AI lending technology provider Zest AI this week unveiled its new lending intelligence companion LuLu. LuLu is a customized generative AI tool that lending organizations can use to instantly capture strategic industry insights, decisioning and portfolio performance metrics, and quickly access their unique Zest AI… Read More

May 19, 2024 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With nearly three-fourths (73%) of consumer loan customers now categorized as financially unhealthy1, up from 67% in 2023, lenders “have their work cut out for them delivering products that meet customer needs in a persistently high interest rate environment.” According to the J.D. Power 2024… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a New Jersey State chartered FDIC-insured bank and Equal Housing Lender known for its Commercial Banking Group (CBG) and real estate lending platform, has reportedly “closed over $200 million in originations in the first quarter of the year.” “True” to the company’s… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, provider of a disruptive and scaled technology platform built to enhance efficiency and transparency in financial services, announced that it will begin making its DART System, a combined lien and eNote registry service, available to private and wholesale lending partners, “initially for… Read More

April 15, 2024 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HeavyFinance has recently shared its latest platform performance review for the month of March 2024. In March, a total of €843,000 was “invested and distributed across 29 agricultural projects” available on the HeavyFinance platform. As of the end of March 2024, a significant sum of… Read More

April 5, 2024 @ 11:51 am By Michael Wong  |  

zypl.ai, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) fintech lending startup, announced it secured significant investment from Dubai-based corporate and retail bank Commercial Bank International (CBI) along with other global investors in a post-seed bridge round. This strategic investment precedes zypl.ai’s anticipated Series A funding round set… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Informative Research, a technology platform that delivers data-driven solutions to the lending community, announced the integration of Veri-Tax, the service provider focused on delivering the fast verifications into its proprietary Verification Platform. The integration merges Informative Research’s platform with Veri-Tax’s verification services so lenders can… Read More

March 26, 2024 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced a new package of targeted lending and support for UK social housing, aimed at supporting local housing authorities and homeowners alike in the face of ongoing economic pressures. Through a new ambition of £5billion of lending (New funding gross of repayments… Read More

March 18, 2024 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partner – real estate developer Lithome – repaid investors a €600 000 loan (real estate project “Marijampolės 5”) and paid their investors €57 405 in interest. Today, Gofingo Group repaid PeerBerry investors €200 000 in war-affected loans. These repayments are being “processed on… Read More

March 14, 2024 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

UK Finance is reporting today that demand for SME financing improved in Q4 of 2023. Last year was difficult for all firms as markets, both public and private, sagged. This was due to rising interest rates paired with inflation as well as geopolitical challenges. However,… Read More