How Lendsqr saved 90% on infrastructure cost
Earlier in the year, Lendsqr implemented a strategic cloud services consolidation and migration that saved about 90% infrastructure cost on an annualized basis. It’s story when told sometimes sounds like magic and modern era impossibility. But it’s true as daylight. It started with a talk DHH gave that a lot of engineers passed around 2023. […]
What makes loan products more attractive to high-risk borrowers
High-risk borrowers do not always walk into a loan product blindly as most Lenders would assume. And understanding how and why they choose certain loan products is one of the more underappreciated parts of building a sustainable lending business.
The challenges of cross-border lending in Africa
Africa has 54 countries, over 40 currencies, and some of the fastest-growing consumer credit markets in the world. For a lender looking to expand beyond a single market, that combination sounds like opportunity, and it sincerely is.
How to design loan requirements that improve repayment outcomes
This piece walks through the factors that matter most when designing loan requirements, with a focus on what the evidence shows actually moves repayment outcomes.
How Proparco deploys credit capital in Francophone Africa
If you are a lender trying to understand how development finance institutions move money in markets where commercial banks routinely pull back, Proparco is worth studying closely.
What high-performing lenders track weekly
This article covers the specific metrics that well-run lending operations track on a weekly basis, why each one matters, and what it usually tells you when it starts shifting.
Nigeria Data Protection Act (NDPA)
For years, digital lending in Nigeria operated in a data grey zone. Platforms collected more borrower information than they needed, shared it with third parties under vague terms, and used it for purposes borrowers never agreed to. Debt recovery sometimes crossed into harassment, with lenders accessing contact lists and sending messages to borrowers’ family members. […]
Why Lendsqr is Latin America’s most affordable loan management software
If you're building or running a lending business in Latin America right now, you're operating in one of the fastest-growing credit markets on the planet.
Frequently asked questions on core banking system
If you run a lending operation, the phrase “core banking system” surfaces often enough that you probably have a rough sense of what it means. The trouble is that a rough sense stops being useful when you are actually evaluating vendors, planning a system migration, or trying to diagnose why your current platform keeps producing […]
2 lenders who almost didn’t go live with Lendsqr
Getting rejected by a prospect you've spent months nurturing is one of those things that tests how a company is actually wired. The instinct, for most teams, is to move on, clean up the CRM, and redirect energy toward warmer leads. At Lendsqr, we made a different call, and we've made it consistently enough that it's become one of the more defining things about how this company operates. These two stories are a direct result of that call.
What Lendsqr costs for a startup lender
So you've decided to start a lending business. You've done the research, maybe gotten your regulatory approvals, and you're ready to pick a platform. Someone mentions Lendsqr and you want to know: what does this actually cost?