Equipment finance in South Africa: How lenders can tap into this growing market
Equipment finance refers to the various lending arrangements that allow businesses to acquire the tools they need such as machinery, vehicles, generators, IT hardware, or medical devices without having to make large upfront payments.
Top loan origination systems worth considering in 2025
In 2025, loan origination systems (LOS) are one of the sharpest differentiators between lenders that grow and lenders that stall.
Lenders battle against fraudsters; a case for an industry blacklist
As digital lending surges in Nigeria, fraud has quietly become one of the industry’s biggest threats, with coordinated identity theft and serial loan defaulters overwhelming individual lenders who battle in isolation. The danger isn’t unique. Kenya offers a stark warning, with an estimated 3.2 million people blacklisted on the country’s TransUnion credit bureau. Without a unified industry blacklist to identify and curb repeat offenders, Nigerian lenders risk following the same path, continually staying several steps behind increasingly sophisticated fraudsters.
