Teaching the World About Peer to Peer Lending
In 2011 the World Bank released the first ever Global Findex Database as “the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk”. A new database was release based on 2014 data and last week the 2017 edition was released. The full database (in Excel format) and the summary and […]
Last week the sixth annual LendIt USA conference took place in San Francisco. Officially known as LendIt Fintech USA 2018 this event was, in my opinion, the best we have ever produced. As I do at this time after every LendIt event, here are my thoughts on some of the ideas that were shared by […]
While the personal loan has been around for centuries and the credit card has been around for decades they have never been combined into one product before. Until now. On stage at LendIt Fintech USA 2018 today Renaud Laplanche, the CEO and co-founder of Upgrade, will announce this groundbreaking new product. I chatted with Renaud […]
Most of us in the developed world don’t think much about making phone calls. We have monthly contracts, often with unlimited minutes, so we just make calls whenever we want. But billions of people around the way use their phones very differently. They have prepaid plans that they top up, often multiple times a week, […]
While there is still a shortage of capital for many small business owners there are far more options today than there was five or ten years ago. Not only are there more options but these options are more convenient with simple loan applications and quick decisions. One of the newer entrants in this space, providing […]
The sixth annual LendIt USA conference will be happening in San Francisco on April 9-11, 2018. Called LendIt Fintech USA 2018 it will be the largest fintech conference ever held in the Bay Area. We are expecting over 5,000 attendees from more than 2,000 companies, over 500 speakers on nine different stages and our largest […]
