Africa’s first billion-dollar tech IPO on a major exchange may be imminent. Nigerian digital payments

By Matt Heiman for Techcrunch.com, In March 2014, The Economist publishedBanking without banks, declaring that

By Josh Constine for Techcrunch.com, Banks are so greedy that LendUp can undercut them, help

By Bloomberg News, Lufax, a Chinese peer-to-peer lender and broker, has secured its position as

By Erin Hobey for Crowdfundinsider.com Almost one third of Americans are likely to be using a technology

By Tracy Alloway for Bloomberg.com So far, 2016 has not been a good year for

Chinese P2P (peer-to-peer) lending start-up Duanrong has completed RMB390 million (US$59 million) series B round

Tracxn Alternative Lending Report (202 Pages) finds that the Alternative Lending space has received a

TechCrunch: China Rapid Finance, which claims to be the country’s largest online consumer lending marketplace, has

E27.CO: Mumbai-based crowdfunding platform for social, personal and creative projects Ketto has raised US$700,000 in

TechCrunch: Affirm, the lending startup co-founded by Max Levchin, is breaking into student loans for coding,

VentureBeat: Startup ZestFinance today announced Basix, a new program for giving loans online to people

Wired: In 2009, a man named Duncan Chege opened up a modest Internet cafe –

TECHINASIA: These are just a few quotes from the media about an industry that has

EU-STARTUPS: In the last decade, there were a bunch of really successful fintech companies that

TECHCRUNCH: Former Disrupt Battlefield participant Self Lender has raised a $1.5 million round of seed

WIRED: Funding Circle, a marketplace for business loans, is one of a growing number of companies

TECHCRUNCH: Lendingkart, a New Delhi-based platform for small businesses loans, has raised a Series A

Bloomberg: As more Chinese jumped into the market in the hope of instant wealth, peer-to-peer websites

Business Insider: Banks have historically handled most consumer and small business lending because they have the

Business Insider: Challenger bank Metro Bank has just struck a deal with Zopa, one of the UK’s

VENTUREBEAT: PayPal revealed today that it has loaned $500 million to small businesses since its launch of Working

RE/CODE: Having dabbled in online slideshows and fertility tracking, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin has swung fully back to his

CROWDFUND INSIDER: Zopa, the first peer to peer lender in the UK, has partnered up with another

TECHINASIA: Online finance and lending platforms have been exploding in China, and the P2P lending sector

The Next Web: Y Combinator non-profit alum Zidisha is launching its cross-border P2P lending platform in Haiti, its

TECHINASIA: Peer-to-peer lending is one of the hottest – if not the hottest – business model in

TECHINASIA:  Peer-to-peer lending startup Jimubox has just secured $84 million in series C funding. It comes seven months

TECHCRUNCH: Here comes some more funding for a European financial tech company specialising in online loans.

TECHCRUNCH: Time to make way for another startup juggernaut out of the financial world. Funding Circle — a London-based peer-to-peer platform