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Budget 2023: Industry Reacts to Government Plans for SMEs, Tech and AI

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Budget 2023:
Industry Reacts to Government Plans for SMEs, Tech and AI

In response to UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, unveiling his 2023 spring budget, which in part, aims to make the UK a “science and technology superpower,” The Fintech Times reached out to industry experts for their thoughts on his actions to encourage greater investment and innovation in the technology sector.

David Mirfield, Director of Product Management for Provenir AI, shared his perspective and predictions on the Finance Minister’s announced investment in quantum computing to support the UK’s AI ecosystem.

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The Next Evolution of Consumer Lending

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Consumer lending continues to move forward with innovation in all areas. While BNPL grabs a lot of the headlines the personal loan is more popular than ever with AI-based automated underwriting becoming the norm. And credit cards have seen more innovation in the last two years than in the previous twenty as it becomes easier to embed cards into the lending stack.

Even with a recession looming lenders continue to provide the next iteration of products across the credit spectrum. This panel of experts will discuss where the market is today, how they serve more borrowers than ever before, and why data is more important now than ever before.

Key Themes:

  • The proliferation of new data sources
  • Balancing new versus existing products in a challenging environment

Speakers:

  • Chris Kneed

    Managing Director for UK and Ireland, Provenir

  • Nick Harding

    Co-Founder & CEO, Fluro

  • Tim Waterman

    Chief Commercial Officer, Zopa

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Todd Anderson

Chief Content Officer, Fintech Nexus


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Provenir Partners with Investree Philippines to Improve SME Lending Experiences

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Provenir Partners with Investree Philippines
to Improve SME Lending Experiences

The partnership will empower SMEs in Philippines with digitalised and innovative SME lending processes

Singapore — 13 March 2023, Provenir, a global leader in data and AI-powered risk decisioning software for fintechs and financial services providers, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Investree Philippines, the country’s first crowdfunding intermediary and funding platform. This partnership will allow Investree to integrate Provenir’s data, decisioning and AI capabilities to provide accessible and inclusive financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Globally, the business-to-business (B2B) SME segment is fast-growing, but many SMEs still face several hurdles when it comes to receiving credit. This trend is particularly concerning in developing markets such as the Philippines where SMEs comprise 99.6% of total business establishments in the market and employ 65% of the workforce.

Provenir’s platform provides Investree Philippines with the capability to access, evaluate, and process a wide range of data sources to create accurate risk models, improving the quality of risk assessments and decisioning for financing applicants. Through the Provenir Marketplace, users can integrate with multiple data sources, such as credit bureaus, fraud detection providers, and social media activity through a single API to provide a comprehensive view of the applicant’s creditworthiness and financial standing.

Investree Philippines’ innovative crowdfunding model utilises this data and technology to connect SMEs with institutional investors, providing access to financing that may not be available through traditional funding sources. Its success has been recognised with a permanent license from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as partnerships with leading organizations like the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and the Philippine SME Business Expo (PhilSME).

“We recognise the need to accelerate post-pandemic recovery and promote recession resiliency through efficient risk grading of financing applicants,” said Kok Chuan Lim, Co-founder and CEO of Investree Philippines. “With the integration of Provenir’s platform, Investree Philippines can provide SMEs with a streamlined and more reliable risk decisioning process, enabling them to receive financing faster and more efficiently. The partnership with Provenir is a significant milestone for Investree Philippines as we seek to expand our presence in the country with initiatives that aim to empower SMEs. The company remains committed to promoting financial inclusion, providing innovative financing solutions, and fostering partnerships that support the growth of local enterprises.”

“Investree Philippines is playing a significant role in empowering SMEs with a more accessible lending experience,” said Bharath Vellore, General Manager, APAC for Provenir. “We share this goal and will provide the real-time, on-demand data access, embedded AI and world-class decisioning technology they need to quickly evaluate risk and provide the critical financing SMEs need to grow and succeed.”

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SME Lending Powered by Real-Time Financial Data

Key Benefits

  • Better data. Better credit decisions. Monto’s API provides a detailed, real-time view of SME business performance. We collect, standardize and visualize data from leading accounting providers to help lenders make faster and more accurate credit decisions.
  • Enhance your processes while improving the user experience. With Monto, lenders can easily authenticate borrowers and start working with high-quality data. Depending on your specific needs, our connectivity can make everything from data collection and onboarding to loan underwriting more efficient.

“The process of sharing financials is very easy with Monto. Our applicants can grant access to their accounting software in seconds.”

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Your Single Access Point to SME Financial Data

Monto is a Stockholm-based fintech that helps Nordic SME lenders harness the power of real-time data. We combine smart tech and deep industry know-how to help fintechs, banks, lending brokers and BaaS platforms make better credit decisions, streamline processes and improve the customer experience.

With Monto, lenders no longer have to rely on manual, dated or mediocre data sources in their credit reviews. Our API unlocks instant access to up-to-date income statements, ledger quality, financial ratios, and more, fetched from leading accounting software providers in Sweden. We also provide a visual interface that allows credit teams to gain a comprehensive financial understanding of their connected borrowers. 

Our platform is tech agnostic and available for a free trial.

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About Monto

  • Services

    Monto API. Seamless API connections to accounting software makes access to real-time financial data smooth, safe, and tailored to credit teams’ needs. Get full details on everything from rolling income statements to ROI and profit margins.

    Standardized data. We categorize and standardize relevant financial data, allowing your team to access high-quality information and make better credit assessments. This helps you eliminate tedious and time-consuming manual data collection.

    Visual interface. Get a comprehensive view of your customers’ financial situation in a single interface to enhance your credit decisions. We cover many of the key metrics and KPIs that drive a customer’s financial performance.

    Easy onboarding. Monto’s pre-built authentication flow enables you to onboard new and existing customers in seconds. Your SME customers simply have to grant access to their financial data, and connect to their accounting provider.

    Extensive coverage. Monto’s accounting integrations cover an estimated 95% of the SMEs in Sweden that use cloud-based accounting. Our future roadmap includes the other Nordic countries.

  • Countries Supported

    • Sweden
    • Norway

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Managing SME Lending Risk

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Forty-four percent of SMEs look to funding to meet operating expenses, with this number expected to grow considerably during times of economic uncertainty. Fifty-six percent of SMEs seek funds to expand business operations or pursue new market opportunities. But waiting months or even weeks for credit approval and funding can mean the difference between innovation and business closure. 

It has always been a challenge for traditional financial service providers to make SME decisions profitable, balancing the relatively small monetary amounts requested, the high volume of demand and the complexity of the decision required.  How can financial services organizations and fintechs more efficiently manage the risk of lending to SMEs? The answer is leveraging both traditional and alternative data to drive automation.

Watch our on-demand webinar and discover how data is key to driving risk strategy innovation, and how it enables rapid approvals and more accurate risk decisions.

Key Highlights:

  • Discover how alternative data can minimize risk while accelerating growth
  • Explore unified data and decisioning solutions that drive risk strategy innovation
  • Learn how to deploy more accurate credit risk models by accessing the right data at the right time
  • Gain insights on identifying and mitigating fraud risk with data-driven decisioning


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Key considerations for AI in SMB lending

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Key considerations
for AI in SMB lending

How can lenders improve the speed and accuracy of loan approvals for SMBs? AI predictive analytics, machine learning and the use of alternative data are key to making improvements in many areas of SMB lending but there are many considerations SMB lenders need to ponder to ensure they are truly positioning themselves on the path to progress.

In this BAI article, John Pesavento, Vice President of Technology for Reliant Funding, shares his observations on approaches and questions lenders should really explore to determine how AI, machine learning and the right data can help them improve predictability at each inflection point across the entire funnel—from an early sales lead to application approval based on submission characteristics.

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CXO of the Week: Varun Bhalla, Country Manager, India, Provenir

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CXO of the Week:
Varun Bhalla, Country Manager, India, Provenir

CIOL recently interviewed Varun Bhalla, Provenir’s Country Manager for India. Varun shared his views on Provenir’s key offerings and unique value, his entrepreneurial journey, the company’s growth, and much more.

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The Missing Link – Improving Lenders Consumer Duty Through Data and Technology

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In a consumer-driven world, fintech lenders must put the customer at the center of their business to help them achieve their financial objectives and avoid potential harm.

But how prepared are you for the new regulations?

How will you integrate data within risk decisioning and analytics technology to keep ahead while protecting consumers at the same time?

What You’ll Learn:

  • How fintechs and banks have previously struggled with customer centricity.
  • How data insights can help the financial executives of fintechs and banks to meet Consumer Duty regulations.
  • The BNPL potholes & financial products that have impacted Consumer Duty.
  • How fintechs can help consumers use short-term finance responsibly.

Speakers:

  • Desmond McNamara

    Chief Risk Officer at Zilch, a direct-to-consumer payments technology company, which is FCA authorised for consumer lending.  Des has worked for over 30 years in risk management at large banks, as CRO for global credit card business and has also built a bank for scratch which was granted a full banking licence in 2020.

  • Chris Kneen

    Managing Director UK & Ireland at Provenir, is a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software. Chris is responsible for expanding Provenir’s customer base in the UK and Ireland, working closely with the company’s regional and global teams to accelerate growth and support clients. Chris oversees operations, sales, customer success, and pre-sales consulting teams.


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The Canadian Lending Market in 2023: Embracing Economic Uncertainty and Mitigating Risk Through Advanced Technology

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The Canadian Lending Market in 2023:
Embracing Economic Uncertainty and Mitigating Risk Through Advanced Technology

Economic uncertainty has a noticeable impact on the way financial institutions make decisions and offer products and services to their customers. While consumers may pull back on discretionary spending, on the flipside, they also require more access to credit – which financial institutions may be reluctant to give, due to more conservative risk appetites.

In this Fintech.ca article, Cheryl Woodburn, Country Manager of Canada for Provenir, shares advice on how alternative data and innovative decisioning ecosystems can help financial institutions gain more accurate insights to support their clients.

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EV Exclusive NBFC AMU Leasing Onboards Provenir’s Decisioning Platform to Accelerate Loan Decisions

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EV Exclusive
NBFC AMU Leasing Onboards Provenir’s Decisioning Platform to Accelerate Loan Decisions

With Provenir, AMU Leasing will be able to disburse loans to its end users with speed, accuracy and precision

New Delhi, India – Provenir, a global leader in AI-powered risk decisioning software, announced today that AMU Leasing, India’s leading and only woman-led, tech-driven NBFC startup exclusively serving the Electric Vehicle ecosystem. With this partnership, the Delhi-based company will be able to make faster decisions and offers to end-users, putting it ahead of its competition.

AMU Leasing’s goal is to support India’s emerging initiatives for self-employment and micro entrepreneurship for citizens across Tier 2 and 3 cities. By supporting the alternate fuel-based transportation sector, they plan to propel and sustain revenue generation for self-employed livelihoods.

The government of India is targeting EV sales to account for 30 percent of private cars, 70 percent of commercial vehicles, 40 percent of buses and 80 percent of two and three-wheelers by 2030 to help reduce carbon emissions. The combination of AMU Leasing and Provenir is ideal for new as well as existing customers seeking EV financing solutions with seamless processing and a world-class user experience.

“We are focused on helping develop an efficient ecosystem where leasing, financing and purchasing electric vehicles is one seamless process,” said Nehal Gupta, CEO of AMU Leasing. “We needed an automated decisioning solution that would enable us to make faster decisions and extend offers to end users. Provenir’s low code interface empowers our business users to easily design, build and test decisioning models themselves. The Provenir Marketplace also provides access and easy integration to new data sources, providing us with greater insights to make more accurate decisions.”

“The EV market is quickly growing and AMU Leasing is well positioned to support the entire value chain, particularly entrepreneurial businesses,” said Varun Bhalla, Country Manager, India for Provenir. “Our AI-Powered Data and Decisioning Platform provides the access to data, AI and decisioning capabilities needed to accelerate and improve their lending decisions and expand with them. We look forward to helping them meet their goal of one million EV disbursements by 2027.”

Provenir’s industry-leading AI-Powered Data and Decisioning Platform delivers smarter risk decisioning. The solution, managed through a single UI, empowers organizations to innovate further and faster than ever before, driving the continuous optimization they need to power growth and agility, without increasing risk.

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