[Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Neil Roberts. He is the CEO of Harmoney, a new p2p lending...
You could fit the entire population of New Zealand (4.5 million people) in the New York City boroughs of Queens...
European online lender Spotcap has received A$20 million (USD$15.15 million) from New Zealand Bank, Heartland; Spotcap has also launched its platform in New Zealand and will be accelerating growth in Australia, helping to expand its business in the Asia Pacific region; Spotcap's lending targets small and medium enterprises with credit lines and loans of up to $250,000. Source
Southern Cross Financial is seeking to take advantage of New Zealand's expanding real estate supply with challenges in traditional mortgage lending; on December 1, the firm will become a P2P mortgage lender, evolving from a mortgage brokerage business; the firm has been arranging loans between alternative credit consumers and approximately 150 investors as a mortgage broker; the new P2P structure will provide a more standardized process for borrowers and investors. Source
Meet Islands of Cool, a blockchain-based carbon removal project out of New Zealand that wants to make carbon offsets cool.
Harmoney is New Zealand’s first and largest p2p lender, launching in 2014; since then they have built up a loan...
I hear from a lot of platforms both in the US and around the world in various stages of launch....
New Zealand-based Xero provides cloud-based accounting software for small and medium size businesses; it has now announced new agreements to integrate its software with working capital financing platforms MarketInvoice, iwoca and DueCourse; the business integrations will help to better facilitate invoice finance lending and working capital credit for businesses using Xero. Source