Nigeria’s Social Lender is coming to South Africa

Social Lender will be launching in South Africa this August. The announcement was made by Faith Adesemowo, CEO of Social Lender during the Barclays Techstars Demo Day presentation in Cape Town.

“With over 10,000 users on our platform, Social Lender has been solving real problems for real people. We provide a way of accessing formal credit to users using their social reputation score. You can find several user testimonials on our blog and Facebook page. It is really touching the impact we have had on our users in the past months” Faith added.

Find their full 8 minute presentation at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF9Xp_I0aes&feature=youtu.be&t=2760

Social Lender is a lending platform, licensed to financial institutions, that determines credit worthiness based on social reputation on mobile, online and social media platforms. Incubated by Bincom ICT Solutions, Social Lender was announced in April as the only Nigerian start up of 10 companies to participate in the inaugural African cohort of the Barclays Accelerator programme powered by Techstars and has since undergone a 13-week programme involving intensive networking, mentoring and development.

Adesemowo also said “Social Lender is currently licensed to Sterling Bank. We will be announcing an additional partner bank in Nigeria shortly. As we strive to grow quickly, We are very excited at the prospect of showing that our solution can work in well regulated market like South Africa”.

In a matter of days, Adesemowo will be presenting at the Barclays Rise in London and will also be participating on a panel at the London Fintech Week.