How Herconomy is making credit accessible to underserved women
In markets, offices, and small shops across Africa, women are constantly at work: running businesses, managing homes, and making daily financial decisions that keep families and communities afloat. Many of them dream of expanding what they’ve built, hiring more hands, or sending their children to better schools. But those dreams often pause at the threshold […]
How to find a profitable lending niche and target the right borrowers
As a loan business owner looking to succeed, scale and stand out in the lending ecosystem, you must recognize that you can’t lend to everyone. We’ve highlighted several ways to target the right borrowers and find a profitable niche.
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.