Reaction from Mahindra Finance: this merger will help FIs reach out to a billion Indians for their lending needs

" Lenddo & EFL both are global pioneers in using non-traditional data, be it social, mobile or psychometric evaluation. Their coming together opens up new frontiers of collaboration with financial institutions that will help financial institutions to reach out to a billion Indians for their lending needs across customer segments."

- Tina Singh  - Chief Digital Officer, Mahindra Finance.

Reaction from CaixaBank: new tools from EFL + Lenddo will make inclusive credit a scalable and therefore sustainable segment

"I am very happy for the alliance between EFL and Lenddo. This will ensure that psychometric, mobile and social data driven products continue growing and improving. This challenge is important because it allows us to create information from nothing and use it to predict human behavior. Not for nothing did the famous physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson say: "In science, when human behavior enters the equation, things go nonlinear. That's why Physics is easy and Sociology (and I would add risk management) is hard."
Microbank is confident that the full power of the new tools developed by EFL and Lenddo will make inclusive credit a scalable and therefore sustainable segment."

- Roman Weissmann Bermann, Risk Director, CaixaBank (MicroBank)  

"Me alegro mucho por la alianza entre EFL y Lenddo, que seguramente permitirá seguir  creciendo y potenciando productos basados en datos psicometricos y aquellos provenientes de la interaccion del usuario en redes sociales y moviles. El reto es importante ya que se trata de crear informacion de la nada y usarla para predecir comportamientos humanos. No por nada el famoso fisico Neil deGrasse Tyson afirmaba que  "en las ciencias, cuando el comportamiento humano entra en la ecuacion, las cosas se transforman en no lineales. Por eso la fisica es facil y la sociologia ( yo añadiria, y la gestion de riesgos) dificil."
Microbank confia en que toda la potencia de las nuevas herramientas desarrolladas permitan hacer de la inclusion crediticia un segmento escalable y por tanto sostenible."

 - Roman Weissmann Bermann, Risk Director, CaixaBank (MicroBank)

Reaction from Mynt: "this merger will set new standards in the industry"

Thanks to our partners at Mynt for sharing their feedback on the merger.

"In a country where native bureaus only have data on less than 5% of the population, the alternative credit scoring methods and technologies Lenddo and EFL have designed and created have enabled us to work towards financial inclusion in the Philippines, from consumers to MSMEs. With the work we've done with Lenddo for our consumers products and with EFL to assess businesses, we can testify that these two companies have many synergies and complementary competencies. With the combination of their knowledge and models, and the combination of social, telco, and psychometric data, we have no doubt that the company resulting from this merger will set new standards in the industry."
-- Anthony Thomas, CEO, Mynt (Globe Fintech Innovations)
 

"With 70% of Filipinos remaining unbanked and with less than 5% in credit card penetration, credit data about the majority is virtually non-existent. This creates a cycle where most Filipinos remain financially underserved. However, with the emergence of technology for alternative credit scoring methods, we are enabled to work towards financial inclusion in the Philippines. With the work we've done with Lenddo to credit score consumers and with EFL to evaluate businesses, it comes as no surprise that a merger between these two innovators is happening. With the experiences and learnings both have acquired separately, we are excited to see the birth of even better and richer data with the marriage of these companies."
-- Jean-Francois Darré, Chief Analytics and Risk Officer, Mynt (Globe Fintech Innovations)