MANILA, Philippines Online lending platforms promise approvals in minutes. The pitch is speed: fast application, fast decision, fast disbursement. But the data informing that decision has rarely been fast. Most lenders, digital or otherwise, have relied on bureau queries that reflect repayment behavior from weeks or months ago, or on internal records alone. For short-term […]
LenderLink Co-Founder and CEO Christo Georgiev joined “How to Lend Money to Strangers” live at Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok on April 22, 2026. The host, Brendan le Grange, spent years working in the Philippine credit data space. Christo arrived on the scene shortly after. Between them, they bring over a decade of direct experience watching […]
Giovanni B. Velo, Initiate PH COO and General Manager, and Christo Georgiev, LenderLink Founder and CEO, mark the start of a landmark collaboration between the world’s first all-in-one crowdfunding platform and the country’s first digital credit data exchange, aimed at expanding opportunity, trust, and financial access for underserved Filipinos. LenderLink, the Philippines’ first digital credit […]
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Most lending decisions in the Philippines are made with incomplete information. A borrower may have years of responsible repayment history, just not with the lender they’re applying to today. That gap has real consequences: creditworthy Filipinos get turned away, or approved for less than they deserve, because the full picture isn’t visible. […]
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Home Credit Philippines, the country’s leading consumer finance company, is onboarding as a member on LenderLink’s real-time credit data exchange platform. The move is expected to strengthen Home Credit’s credit assessment capabilities while allowing millions of borrowers to demonstrate their creditworthiness across the lending ecosystem. Home Credit’s onboarding brings one of the […]