How the bad debt expense formula helps lenders track risk
What starts as a basic calculation of bad debt becomes a useful tool to guide decisions across the lending cycle.
Frequently asked questions about alternative credit scoring
The traditional credit score is a relic of an era that didn’t understand how modern people actually move money. If you’ve ever wondered how your utility bills, airtime purchases, or even your social media footprint could help you get a loan, you’re looking at alternative credit scoring. We’re answering the real questions about how this data is collected, whether it’s actually secure, and why it’s finally making "unbanked" a term of the past.
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.